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,
In :
Events
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,
In :
Events
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 Saturday, August 6, 2011,
In :
Social Media
I live in the Middle East and you don't need statistics to know that people here are more of Facebook fans, probably because we tend to be very talkative and 140 characters simply doesn’t cut it for most of us. Or perhaps because FarmVille doesn't have an account on Twitter (for which I'm really grateful).
I asked some friends about that, and read some other people's opinions on it, and barely any of them seemed to really like Twitter. But I kept seeing it everywhere online and was curious ... Continue reading ...
Have you ever had an important meeting or event that got you so nervous that you had a nightmare about it seeing yourself showing up naked and had every one shocked and pointing at you until you realized it and felt so embarrassed that you wished you could just disappear?!
Well this isn’t about that. This is actually about wanting to be there naked! No, not literally. Just read on.
Going back in memory to college years, you must remember that one of the important courses of management was O...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Wednesday, February 9, 2011,
In :
Social Media
After observing the behavior of marketers and brands on Twitter for the past year, I have jotted down some punctilios (☚ word of the day - punctilio: a fine point of etiquette or petty formality.) that you, as a marketer, would need to follow if you want to gather and keep happy followers:
Punctilio #1 Mix business with pleasure, that's today's "must-do":
We all know that you are mainly on Twitter so you can promote a business or a blog or whatever it is you are so proud of (and yes we are pr...
Posted by Manal Assaad on Friday, February 4, 2011,
In :
People
For quite some time, I've been thinking about how to make my blog more alive and engaging; if you've been an avid follower of mine (on twitter) for a while you'd remember me asking on whether I should allow guest posts on my blog as it's been suggested by a few people. Although I like the idea of giving way to other people's voices on my blog, this is a personal blog and I'd like to keep it personal and to have my flavor all over it. So I came up with the best idea to combine both! A "Meet S...
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...
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.
