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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Posted by Manal Assaad on Monday, April 9, 2012,
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Do you follow me on Twitter? Then I must have spammed you a week ago for five days tweeting about the largest digital event in the region: Arabnet Digital Summit
I had the pleasure of attending Arabnet 2011, and a greater pleasure returning to Arabnet 2012 as an official blogger among some other great bloggers. This year’s event was bigger, with more workshops and talks, and more focus on details! Read on to know what you've missed ;)
Starting with the Developer Days on March 27 – 28, ther...
Posted by Guest Post: Arabnet on Friday, March 9, 2012,
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Over 100 leading global and regional ICT professionals are set to take the stage at the ArabNet Digital Summit 2012 to share their expertise on the latest trends and topics in the field of online business.
The dynamic line up of speakers will include respected professionals from well-known organizations such as Osama Bedeir, Vice President of Payments at Google; Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Amina Belghiti, Head of Platform Partnerships, New Markets EMEA, Facebook; a...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Friday, February 10, 2012,
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When you work in the social media field like I do, it becomes inevitable to run into startups that are eager to launch the newest idea, the most tech-advanced service or the best-specialized network. As a startup, it is perhaps important to believe that the product you’re developing will be a success, will bring you fame, and help you cash in, hopefully sooner than later.
I do not claim to be an expert on entrepreneurship and startups, but if there is one thing that I can deduce by common ...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Wednesday, March 23, 2011,
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Events
The much-awaited event of the year in the Middle East, ArabNet, kicked off on Tuesday 22nd of March with its Developer Day, or as ordinary people like me call it “Geeks Day” because of half of the technical stuff that flies right over our heads!
The turnout for this day was completely unexpected as most professionals in the region would be more interested in the Forum Day 1 & 2 that host many astounding speakers with talks on digital trends. The crowds in the hallway & the two conference ...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Saturday, December 18, 2010,
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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...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Wednesday, December 8, 2010,
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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.
Posted by Manal Assaad on Friday, December 3, 2010,
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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...
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.
