article thumbnail

Taking Social Media to Saudi

Amy Sample Ward

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program.

article thumbnail

Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He has developed the lab in Amman and is replicating it on other countries in the region like Saudi Arabia. The projects brought into the lab by these fellows are a wide range of mobile, social, and online applications and platforms that leverage existing web 2.0

Jordan 129
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

communicate and are far more pervasive than the Internet. election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and. With close to 2.5 billion phones in circulation around the world, in many countries mobile phones are the easiest and least expensive way to. Mobile phones offer an.

article thumbnail

Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

Any woman who is just coming on from Kashmir has access to some kind of connectivity to either an Internet cafe, or a cell phone, or a computer at her work. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. Britt Bravo: Why did you start World Pulse? She can speak out.

Voice 69
article thumbnail

David Perlmutter Talks Blogs, Interactors, and Jon Stewart - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Yet the Internet visionaries around him, like Joe Trippi and Jerome Armstrong, tried something really new: to get supporters of his views and ideas to self-mobilize, to create support groups, fundraising, canvassing on their own without top-down central direction. His war chest was pitiful. Think how far weve come so fast.

article thumbnail

David Perlmutter Talks Blogs, Interactors, and Jon Stewart - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Yet the Internet visionaries around him, like Joe Trippi and Jerome Armstrong, tried something really new: to get supporters of his views and ideas to self-mobilize, to create support groups, fundraising, canvassing on their own without top-down central direction. His war chest was pitiful. Think how far weve come so fast.