TOP & Social Watchlist Report: Facebook Benchmarks in the Middle East [Report]

For entrepreneurs looking to see how their performance on Facebook fares against other startups in the MENA region, this downloadable...

Wamda • 02 October, 2012

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

Social Media Impact 2012 in Morocco

Following the success of the 1st edition of the SMI - Social Media Impact Conference last year, iCompetences has announced the 2nd SMI...

Karim Jazouani • 02 October, 2012

Social Media

Is Social Media important for Social Good in Arabia? 5 Examples from Jordan

It’s been three years since we launched Nakhweh (@nakhweh) to match volunteers in Jordan with local opportunities. As it evolved i...

Kamel Al-Asmar • 16 September, 2012

Social Entrepreneurship Social Media

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 16-20

If you were to learn one thing from our posts this week, it's that making that one decision to roll up your sleeves goes a long way....

Wamda • 20 September, 2012

Booz & Company E-commerce Fashion

5 Key Decisions You Need to Make to Improve Your Social Media Strategy

When speaking with many regional entrepreneurs, investors, and some larger brands, the topic of social media is often debated. A social...

Mo Ali Yusuf • 11 September, 2012

Social Media

Arab Twitter Apps Developer: Saleh Al Zaid of LunarApps [Wamda TV]

Arabic. Saleh Al Zaid, co-founder and CEO of LunarApps, speaks about the start of the company specialized in developing applications for...

Maya Rahal • 22 August, 2012

Social Media Arabnet

Social Media Week Is Coming To Jeddah

This year, Jeddah was chosen to be one of the cities that will host the social media week 2012. Jeddah will organize 5 consecutive days of...

Wamda • 20 August, 2012

Digital Media Social Media

Launching a Citizen Journalism Application: Mark Malcon & Emile Khatar from Sign.al [Wamda TV]

Mark Malcon and Emile Khatar speak about Sign.al, a citizen journalism application they built and developed since more than a year. Sign.al...

Maya Rahal • 08 August, 2012

Arabnet Social Media

The Best Times to Tweet During Ramadan [REPORT]

The of volume of tweets increases significantly during Ramadan, but when should your brand tweet to take advantage of a broader...

Wamda • 23 July, 2012

Social Media

Moroccan Entrepreneurs Bring Social Media Day to MENA

On June 30th, Social Media Day in Casablanca, Morocco drew over 150 participants to the country’s tech capital to meet, greet, a...

Karim Jazouani • 16 July, 2012

Conferences Social Media

How Internet Users Will Spend Their Time in 2012 [Infographic]

Every moment of our lives nowadays is related to an internet act, a fact clearly demonstrated by this infographic, which examines five...

Wamda • 08 July, 2012

E-commerce Facebook Gaming

How Egypt Is Discussing the Presidential Elections on Facebook and Twitter

Wamda is not a place for political debate.  But the entrepreneurial ecosystem does not live in a separate universe, however much we...

Omar Aysha • 17 June, 2012

Digital Media Social Media

In the Arab World, Social Media Has Fast Developed into a Medium for the Masses

During Tunisia's revolution, Asma Mansour's parents kept her locked at home for her own safety. But Mansour was continuously in touch with...

Knowledge @Wharton • 14 June, 2012

Social Media

Arabic Medical Portal AlTibbi Launches Breakthrough Symptom Checker and Social Network

Arabic medical portal Altibbi.com has just launched two major improvements to its comprehensive diagnosis platform: the first Arab...

Nina Curley • 15 May, 2012

Social Media Endeavor Medical

Global

The Facebook factor: hacking social media for growth [Wamda TV]

A business today with no social media presence is, frankly, an anomaly. Continuously, surveys show that the use of social media as a...

Lucy Knight • 21 June, 2016

Step2016 Advertising Facebook

What do people tweet about during Ramadan?

As we mentioned in a feature about The Online Project (TOP) report released last year, an increase in internet usge appears in engagement w...

Wamda • 03 July, 2014

the online project TOP Report

How do you increase brand engagement on social media? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At Oventure’s annual Mashable Social Media Day Egypt in Alexandria last June, the day’s discussions covered a range of social media...

Hanan Solayman • 04 August, 2013

Social Networks Social Media

Would you outsource your startup's social media presence? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last June, Oventure organized the annual Mashable Social Media Day Egypt in Alexandria, with discussions on social media including ...

Hanan Solayman • 01 August, 2013

Social Media

Community Management Day in Casablanca

Social Media Club Casablanca and CFCIM (Marocco chamber of commerce) are organizing their first Community Management Day in C...

Wamda • 17 April, 2013

Social Media Social Networks

Training Businesses in Social Media Marketing, SoshTeck in Oman [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Saba Al Busaidi of social media training company SoshTeck in Oman discusses how she re...

Wamda • 14 March, 2013

Social Networks Social Media

How Turkish Jewelry Company Hazinem Plans to Enter the Middle East [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Sevgi Soysal from Hazinem, a Turkish jewelry e-commerce company. Soysal told us about the...

Wamda • 12 December, 2012

E-commerce Marketing Scaling

CloudArena plans to Disrupt the Hotel Industry in Turkey and the MENA [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi summit, Arden Agopyan, Ali Beklen and Tolga Yalcinkaya from CloudArena shared with us their plans to disrupt the hotel...

Wamda • 15 December, 2012

Data Digital Marketing Expansion

Turkish Gaming Startup ArcadeMonk Turns to the Arab World [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Omer Ersoy from ArcadeMonk, a social and mobile Turkish gaming company, about their stategy...

Wamda • 03 December, 2012

Facebook Mobile Gaming Scaling

A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ...

Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media