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Manal Assaad I'm Manal Assaad, aka The Manalyst, a Branding Fanatic, Marketing Enthusiast, and Media Addict. By profession, I'm a marketing specialist with a keen eye in design, a quirky style in communications, and avidity for social media. By passion, I'm into psychology, sociology, mythology, movies and TV series, technology and gadgets, music and dancing, languages, art and culture, fashion designing and styling.

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Browsing Archive: December, 2010

The 1st Arab Social Media Forum: More Social, Less Forum Please!

Posted by Manal Assaad on Saturday, December 18, 2010, In : Events 


 On December 11th, I had the pleasure of attending the 1st Arab Social Media Forum in Amman, Jordan. The forum was the 1st of its kind in the region to target only Social Media topics and share both clients' & agencies' experience dealing with Social Media platforms & different social engagement approaches / show cases (according to their website). 
The event, held in Regency Palace Hotel (which, on a side note I must say, has AWESOME beds XD), was under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Mar...

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TEDXARABIA: AN EXPERIENCE WORTH SPREADING (PART II)

Posted by Manal Assaad on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, In : Events 
Resuming my first post of my TEDxArabia experience and the presentations after the first beak, Thamer Shaker got it off on the right foot by bringing in lots of laughter to a really serious topic with the video below. In his presentation of "Elf & Giant", he urged the youth on choosing between being elves, small and insignificant, or giants, grand and visible.

 


Bassam AlKharashi's Innovation Process and Hani Khojah's Innovation and Collaboration were informational and educational but not much ...

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TEDxArabia: An Experience Worth Spreading (Part I)

Posted by Manal Assaad on Friday, December 3, 2010, In : Events 


 
If you were following my tweets on Thursday, December 2nd, you'd know that I was attending one of the most exciting, entertaining and educational events that can take place in Saudi Arabia... TEDxArabia which sought to answer the question "What is Innovation", as well as many other questions under the same theme.

I was invited as the Social Media Associate to bring the happenings of the event to the twittersphere (I knew my tweeting skills would pay off someday :P); and to spread the knowledg...

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