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Social Arab Web

by Moeed Ahmad on Sep 23, 2009

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A short overview of Al Jazeera's utilization of different social media concepts and services. Presented at the "Social Arab Web" panel at Picnic09.

A short overview of Al Jazeera's utilization of different social media concepts and services. Presented at the "Social Arab Web" panel at Picnic09.

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Gerd Leonhard , Media Futurist, Author, Keynote Speaker, Strategist, Think-Tank Leader, Advisor at www.mediafuturist.com Nice start - do you have more? 1 year ago Reply
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Ibridamenti Venezia belle :-) 2 years ago Reply
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The original model
Quality product
Conversation!

to connect with the new audiences, to be relevant
enhance our content .. loop of content going from alj to people and back to alj
embracing creative commons
not true but it does it does lend itself to the new genre of reporting that is forming
A limit from the mobile world
Imposed on to an internet service
middle east the mobile service is not available
Most relevant and effective use of Twitter
War time reporting
trending topic thru out the coflict
there was a gap
conversations are happening
no one is quoting facts / propoganda
no dedicated authentic news source present
Providing verified information made an impact
RT
Even CEO
700,000 followers
Minbar Aljazeera
Twitter 12,266 members in the Arab world vs. WatWet 25,000 members (SponOn PR)
twitter IRAN
Enter Ushahidi
crowd sourcing crisis information - kenyan political unrest riots, south african violence against the foreigners
the mashup
2nd Jan 2009 - Day 7
Couldn’t generate content from the public
Input the Twitter feed into the Ushahidi map
conversation

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Graham Holliday , Media trainer, journalist, blogger * consultant at Kigali Wire Tags al social journalism gaza media jazeera distribution twitter publishing 2 years ago
Amit Ranjan , CoFounder & COO at SlideShare Inc. Tags picnic09 2 years ago
Ron Verweij , Senior Consultant Mobile & Customer Experience at Customer Soulutions 2 years ago
vincent everts , CEO Partner/Trendwatcher at Interimic PCzapper Midas Tags arabic web 2 years ago

Social Arab Web — Presentation Transcript

The Social Arab Web Moeed Ahmad http://www.moeed.com Head of New Media http://twitter.com/moeed
Broadcasting
Distributed Distribution
Participatory Culture
http://cc.aljazeera.net
http://www.aljazeeratalk.net
“If it doesn’t ﬁt in140 characters, its not worth saying” @mohamed
“Micro Reporting”
WAR 2.0
#gaza
sooner or later, everyone gets the news
http://labs.aljazeera.net/warongaza
http://twitter.com/hamishreporter http://twitter.com/samizeidan
“If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space”. @riy