This document summarizes a study of internet, content, and technology consumption in Kuwait from October 2015. It provides key findings from interviews with 3,020 Kuwaitis, Arabs, and expats aged 15 and older. Some top findings include: internet penetration reached 89% of the population, TV remains the most popular media but online streaming is growing, social media penetration is 96% and time spent on social platforms averages 51 minutes daily, and smartphone ownership reached 93% with 23% making online purchases on their devices. The report analyzes trends in these and other areas like gaming, e-commerce, and website/app usage.
1. The document describes various types of flowcharts used in accounting information systems including systems flowcharts, document flowcharts, program flowcharts, and hardware flowcharts. It then discusses flowchart conventions and design steps.
2. Key flowchart conventions include reading from top to bottom and left to right, using plenty of white space, including titles and page numbers, organizing in columns of responsibility, and clearly showing the origin and termination of documents.
3. Common flowcharting tools include paper and pencil as well as software programs like Microsoft Visio and SmartDraw. Standard flowchart symbols represent data, processes, lines, and special functions.
Imperial reported an 18% increase in revenue and a 12% increase in operating profit for the first six months of fiscal year 2013. While most divisions performed well, logistics divisions faced challenging conditions in South Africa and Europe. The automotive retail and aftermarket parts divisions achieved strong growth. Overall, the results represent a good performance despite difficult market conditions in some areas.
Mr. Fadl Tarzi - Public Sphere Revolution - the Advent of Social Media in the...arabiansocialmedia
The document discusses the advent and growing influence of social media in the Middle East. It notes that social media has transformed from a one-way broadcast model to a many-to-many conversational model. Governments were initially slow to recognize social media, but are now experimenting with using it in order to engage with citizens, especially youth. The document outlines how social media was influential during the Arab Spring uprisings by facilitating organization and spreading of information. It also provides examples of how social media can be used for predictive analysis of social and economic trends.
From Facebook to Twitter, Pinterest Google+, Instagram and LinkedIn, Social Media has taken over the internet. Here are some compelling statistics that you should take note of from Social Media eLearning
The document discusses a $500 million funding round. It appears to be a tweet announcing a large funding round, as it includes the dollar amount and a twitter handle. In just 3 words and a number, it conveys that a substantial amount of funding was secured.
The document discusses re-architecting marketing strategies due to changes in consumer behavior and technology. It recommends that marketers focus on talent, agility, and data/technology. Specifically, it advises having the right talent and providing education, recruiting partners, setting clear metrics. Marketers should also be agile to adapt to competition and trends, and leverage big data and technology while respecting consumers' privacy. The overall goal is to create positive brand experiences for consumers.
This document summarizes a study of internet, content, and technology consumption in Kuwait from October 2015. It provides key findings from interviews with 3,020 Kuwaitis, Arabs, and expats aged 15 and older. Some top findings include: internet penetration reached 89% of the population, TV remains the most popular media but online streaming is growing, social media penetration is 96% and time spent on social platforms averages 51 minutes daily, and smartphone ownership reached 93% with 23% making online purchases on their devices. The report analyzes trends in these and other areas like gaming, e-commerce, and website/app usage.
1. The document describes various types of flowcharts used in accounting information systems including systems flowcharts, document flowcharts, program flowcharts, and hardware flowcharts. It then discusses flowchart conventions and design steps.
2. Key flowchart conventions include reading from top to bottom and left to right, using plenty of white space, including titles and page numbers, organizing in columns of responsibility, and clearly showing the origin and termination of documents.
3. Common flowcharting tools include paper and pencil as well as software programs like Microsoft Visio and SmartDraw. Standard flowchart symbols represent data, processes, lines, and special functions.
Imperial reported an 18% increase in revenue and a 12% increase in operating profit for the first six months of fiscal year 2013. While most divisions performed well, logistics divisions faced challenging conditions in South Africa and Europe. The automotive retail and aftermarket parts divisions achieved strong growth. Overall, the results represent a good performance despite difficult market conditions in some areas.
Mr. Fadl Tarzi - Public Sphere Revolution - the Advent of Social Media in the...arabiansocialmedia
The document discusses the advent and growing influence of social media in the Middle East. It notes that social media has transformed from a one-way broadcast model to a many-to-many conversational model. Governments were initially slow to recognize social media, but are now experimenting with using it in order to engage with citizens, especially youth. The document outlines how social media was influential during the Arab Spring uprisings by facilitating organization and spreading of information. It also provides examples of how social media can be used for predictive analysis of social and economic trends.
From Facebook to Twitter, Pinterest Google+, Instagram and LinkedIn, Social Media has taken over the internet. Here are some compelling statistics that you should take note of from Social Media eLearning
The document discusses a $500 million funding round. It appears to be a tweet announcing a large funding round, as it includes the dollar amount and a twitter handle. In just 3 words and a number, it conveys that a substantial amount of funding was secured.
The document discusses re-architecting marketing strategies due to changes in consumer behavior and technology. It recommends that marketers focus on talent, agility, and data/technology. Specifically, it advises having the right talent and providing education, recruiting partners, setting clear metrics. Marketers should also be agile to adapt to competition and trends, and leverage big data and technology while respecting consumers' privacy. The overall goal is to create positive brand experiences for consumers.
The document discusses strategies for optimizing a brand's presence on Facebook, including posting regularly to gain engagement, using high-quality content like photos and videos to increase reach, running always-on page post ads to target both fans and non-fans, and using premium page post ads tactically to maximize impact and ROI. It also provides recommendations around budget allocation, with initially higher spending on non-fans to expand the audience.
Social User Channel Preferences KuwaitAndrew Maher
How and why certain groups of people tend to use one social media platform over another and how businesses react to this. This is a brief study of how the 3 Kuwaiti telecoms use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to varying degrees to interact with their customers. Companies studied are Zain, Viva Telecom & Ooredoo Kuwait. These companies were not involved in this study and only publicly available information was used.
Dynamic Presentations {A Recipe for Success, Part 1}Barbara Greene
This document provides tips for giving dynamic presentations that begin with putting yourself into the presentation. It recommends marshaling your resources of time, content, experience, creativity and insights, and mashing them together with a positive attitude. Four key ingredients for an effective presentation are to stand tall and sure while projecting confidence through good posture, eye contact, smiling and vocal projection. Frequent practice through rehearsal, recording and critique allows the presenter to learn and improve, finding confidence and mastering their material.
This document is a report on digital and internet trends in 2017. It provides statistics on global internet, social media, mobile, and e-commerce usage. Some of the key findings include that over half of the world's population is now online, with over 3.7 billion internet users and 2.7 billion active social media users. Mobile connections continue to grow significantly, accounting for over 50% of total internet traffic. E-commerce sales totaled over $1.6 trillion globally in 2016. The report concludes by suggesting marketers integrate digital and social strategies across all aspects of their business to take advantage of an increasingly connected world.
The document provides statistics on social media usage in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some key points are:
1) Facebook is the most visited website in the region, with over 22 million users total, and Egypt and Jordan each having millions of users.
2) Twitter usage also grew substantially in early 2011, with over 1 million active users generating nearly 23 million tweets in the first quarter of the year.
3) Social media penetration varies by country, with the UAE at 69% internet penetration and Jordan at 35%, while Kuwait generates the most Twitter volume in the Arab world.
This document presents statistics on social media usage globally and in Pakistan. It reports the number of users of major social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter worldwide and in Pakistan. Facebook is the largest with over 900 million global users, while it has over 200 million users in Pakistan. The document also provides breakdowns of social media users by gender, age, education level, and other demographics both globally and within Pakistan. In conclusion, it notes that while the top social networks remain consistent, popularity varies significantly between countries and user groups.
The document discusses the results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution levels. Researchers analyzed data from dozens of countries and found that lockdowns led to an average decline of nearly 30% in nitrogen dioxide levels across major cities. However, they also observed that the reductions were temporary and air pollution rebounded once restrictions began lifting and economic activity resumed.
This document discusses how brands are becoming publishers by creating and distributing content online. It notes that customers now research brands and products online through user-generated content and stories told by brands. Brands must build their own audiences and influence discussions about their brand through high-quality content that captures attention and moves people through the stages of knowing, liking and trusting the brand. Successful content includes personality, shares well on social media, and leverages celebrities or influencers who match the brand's voice and message. Ongoing content creation and engagement with contributors is important for brands to control what people see about them online.
Stimulating growth in the $250bn+ Kuwait Projects market Natalie Gurney
Kuwait’s premier business development platform for the projects market
Kuwait Projects, now in its 11th year, is an essential platform for any organisation looking to expand its presence & outreach within Kuwait.
Organised by MEED Events for more than a decade in partnership with the likes of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) & the Ministries of Public Works, Health and Electricity & Water, the event provides the opportunity to align yourselves with the major stakeholders shaping Kuwait’s projects landscape & further grasp key decisions & movements taking place within Kuwait’s projects market.
Instagram is the new star of social networks. What is it about this social network that is all about photos that make it so popular? Who is on there, how active is the audience and what can you achieve by hopping on the bandwagon? Can you start writing your own success story or is it already too late and the place in the spotlight already taken? ...
This document discusses trends in internet and social media usage in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some key points:
- Internet penetration is growing across markets like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait, with over 80% penetration in major cities.
- Smartphones are widely used, with over 70% ownership across populations. Popular apps include WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, and Candy Crush.
- YouTube is heavily used for music and entertainment. Different demographics prefer different video genres like travel, sports, and news.
- New social platforms like Snapchat and Instagram are growing in popularity, especially among younger users.
- Traditional television remains popular too, with channels like M
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Why Mobile Social Media Matters - Statistics, Trends, TechnologiesDavid Berkowitz
This is a primer on mobile social media, including statistics, how people are using it, why people use it, and the future of mobile social media. While specific technologies and stats will change with any given month, the trends should prove to be more enduring.
Your feedback is welcome, whether via email (dberkowitz@360i.com), Twitter (@dberkowitz & @360i), or however else you choose.
Here are my top three tips on how to get featured on SlideShare and end up on the homepage. After reaching over 1.5M+ views on SlideShare, I wanted to share my best advice on how to maximize your marketing on SlideShare. Enjoy!
Social media management consists of various well planned steps,Monitoring or Report generation is one of the most important part of them,as it delivers powerful insights about how well your brand is doing out there in Social media and what are the loose ends that you need to tight.This a sample social media report.Social media monitoring,
This quick and simple guide shows how you can save your PowerPoint slides as high resolution images. This trick is ideal for uploads to SlideShare as you won't lose any quality of your slides. It also works perfect for sharing individual high-quality slides on social media.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
This is a minimal concept you should consider for your PowerPoint slides in order to make them more engaging and exciting.
I work as a presentation designer and help speakers and marketers with their pitches. If you need help with any of these concepts, drop me an email and I will be happy to help.
This document discusses transforming the customer journey through an omni-channel approach. It emphasizes uncovering customer intent through data to create connected physical and digital experiences. It also stresses the need for continuous improvement and adapting to changing customer behaviors and technologies by maintaining aligned priorities, willingness to change, strong feedback systems, and continuous improvement among all partners involved in the customer journey.
This document discusses how brands can leverage data assets from digital promotions to drive more targeted and effective marketing. It outlines how assigning unique codes to each promotional campaign and media channel allows brands to analyze purchase data and attribute offline sales to specific online activities. This enables optimization of spending across channels based on their performance. New technologies like receipt recognition are helping brands collect more granular customer and basket data. Building a first-party data asset through consistent promotions provides more insights than renting data and allows brands to own their customer relationships.
Social media has the potential to be as important to the broader economy as technologies like mobile phones and cloud computing. Sales of software for corporate social networks are expected to grow rapidly, becoming a $6.4 billion business by 2016. The rise of the sharing economy is also impacting industries like travel, as new technologies connect customers in new ways. Social media and the sharing economy are bringing about creative destruction of old economic models and changing the nature of business for the future.
The document discusses trends in ecommerce and digital marketing from an industry insider's perspective. It identifies the key challenges in 2015 as technology issues, integration across channels for marketing, and developing a single customer view. It emphasizes that retailers must keep up with constantly changing customer expectations around delivery, service, and experiences across all digital and physical touchpoints. Finally, it stresses the importance of having an integrated approach and single customer view to improve marketing, increase customer retention and lifetime value, and gain a competitive advantage.
The document discusses strategies for optimizing a brand's presence on Facebook, including posting regularly to gain engagement, using high-quality content like photos and videos to increase reach, running always-on page post ads to target both fans and non-fans, and using premium page post ads tactically to maximize impact and ROI. It also provides recommendations around budget allocation, with initially higher spending on non-fans to expand the audience.
Social User Channel Preferences KuwaitAndrew Maher
How and why certain groups of people tend to use one social media platform over another and how businesses react to this. This is a brief study of how the 3 Kuwaiti telecoms use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to varying degrees to interact with their customers. Companies studied are Zain, Viva Telecom & Ooredoo Kuwait. These companies were not involved in this study and only publicly available information was used.
Dynamic Presentations {A Recipe for Success, Part 1}Barbara Greene
This document provides tips for giving dynamic presentations that begin with putting yourself into the presentation. It recommends marshaling your resources of time, content, experience, creativity and insights, and mashing them together with a positive attitude. Four key ingredients for an effective presentation are to stand tall and sure while projecting confidence through good posture, eye contact, smiling and vocal projection. Frequent practice through rehearsal, recording and critique allows the presenter to learn and improve, finding confidence and mastering their material.
This document is a report on digital and internet trends in 2017. It provides statistics on global internet, social media, mobile, and e-commerce usage. Some of the key findings include that over half of the world's population is now online, with over 3.7 billion internet users and 2.7 billion active social media users. Mobile connections continue to grow significantly, accounting for over 50% of total internet traffic. E-commerce sales totaled over $1.6 trillion globally in 2016. The report concludes by suggesting marketers integrate digital and social strategies across all aspects of their business to take advantage of an increasingly connected world.
The document provides statistics on social media usage in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some key points are:
1) Facebook is the most visited website in the region, with over 22 million users total, and Egypt and Jordan each having millions of users.
2) Twitter usage also grew substantially in early 2011, with over 1 million active users generating nearly 23 million tweets in the first quarter of the year.
3) Social media penetration varies by country, with the UAE at 69% internet penetration and Jordan at 35%, while Kuwait generates the most Twitter volume in the Arab world.
This document presents statistics on social media usage globally and in Pakistan. It reports the number of users of major social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter worldwide and in Pakistan. Facebook is the largest with over 900 million global users, while it has over 200 million users in Pakistan. The document also provides breakdowns of social media users by gender, age, education level, and other demographics both globally and within Pakistan. In conclusion, it notes that while the top social networks remain consistent, popularity varies significantly between countries and user groups.
The document discusses the results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution levels. Researchers analyzed data from dozens of countries and found that lockdowns led to an average decline of nearly 30% in nitrogen dioxide levels across major cities. However, they also observed that the reductions were temporary and air pollution rebounded once restrictions began lifting and economic activity resumed.
This document discusses how brands are becoming publishers by creating and distributing content online. It notes that customers now research brands and products online through user-generated content and stories told by brands. Brands must build their own audiences and influence discussions about their brand through high-quality content that captures attention and moves people through the stages of knowing, liking and trusting the brand. Successful content includes personality, shares well on social media, and leverages celebrities or influencers who match the brand's voice and message. Ongoing content creation and engagement with contributors is important for brands to control what people see about them online.
Stimulating growth in the $250bn+ Kuwait Projects market Natalie Gurney
Kuwait’s premier business development platform for the projects market
Kuwait Projects, now in its 11th year, is an essential platform for any organisation looking to expand its presence & outreach within Kuwait.
Organised by MEED Events for more than a decade in partnership with the likes of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) & the Ministries of Public Works, Health and Electricity & Water, the event provides the opportunity to align yourselves with the major stakeholders shaping Kuwait’s projects landscape & further grasp key decisions & movements taking place within Kuwait’s projects market.
Instagram is the new star of social networks. What is it about this social network that is all about photos that make it so popular? Who is on there, how active is the audience and what can you achieve by hopping on the bandwagon? Can you start writing your own success story or is it already too late and the place in the spotlight already taken? ...
This document discusses trends in internet and social media usage in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some key points:
- Internet penetration is growing across markets like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait, with over 80% penetration in major cities.
- Smartphones are widely used, with over 70% ownership across populations. Popular apps include WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, and Candy Crush.
- YouTube is heavily used for music and entertainment. Different demographics prefer different video genres like travel, sports, and news.
- New social platforms like Snapchat and Instagram are growing in popularity, especially among younger users.
- Traditional television remains popular too, with channels like M
How Businesses Can Use Instagram - Social Media Day San DiegoJenn Herman
As a presentation to businesses owners at Social Media Day San Diego, here is why Instagram is important, how to format your Instagram profile, what to share on Instagram, and how to use Instagram successfully.
Why Mobile Social Media Matters - Statistics, Trends, TechnologiesDavid Berkowitz
This is a primer on mobile social media, including statistics, how people are using it, why people use it, and the future of mobile social media. While specific technologies and stats will change with any given month, the trends should prove to be more enduring.
Your feedback is welcome, whether via email (dberkowitz@360i.com), Twitter (@dberkowitz & @360i), or however else you choose.
Here are my top three tips on how to get featured on SlideShare and end up on the homepage. After reaching over 1.5M+ views on SlideShare, I wanted to share my best advice on how to maximize your marketing on SlideShare. Enjoy!
Social media management consists of various well planned steps,Monitoring or Report generation is one of the most important part of them,as it delivers powerful insights about how well your brand is doing out there in Social media and what are the loose ends that you need to tight.This a sample social media report.Social media monitoring,
This quick and simple guide shows how you can save your PowerPoint slides as high resolution images. This trick is ideal for uploads to SlideShare as you won't lose any quality of your slides. It also works perfect for sharing individual high-quality slides on social media.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
This is a minimal concept you should consider for your PowerPoint slides in order to make them more engaging and exciting.
I work as a presentation designer and help speakers and marketers with their pitches. If you need help with any of these concepts, drop me an email and I will be happy to help.
This document discusses transforming the customer journey through an omni-channel approach. It emphasizes uncovering customer intent through data to create connected physical and digital experiences. It also stresses the need for continuous improvement and adapting to changing customer behaviors and technologies by maintaining aligned priorities, willingness to change, strong feedback systems, and continuous improvement among all partners involved in the customer journey.
This document discusses how brands can leverage data assets from digital promotions to drive more targeted and effective marketing. It outlines how assigning unique codes to each promotional campaign and media channel allows brands to analyze purchase data and attribute offline sales to specific online activities. This enables optimization of spending across channels based on their performance. New technologies like receipt recognition are helping brands collect more granular customer and basket data. Building a first-party data asset through consistent promotions provides more insights than renting data and allows brands to own their customer relationships.
Social media has the potential to be as important to the broader economy as technologies like mobile phones and cloud computing. Sales of software for corporate social networks are expected to grow rapidly, becoming a $6.4 billion business by 2016. The rise of the sharing economy is also impacting industries like travel, as new technologies connect customers in new ways. Social media and the sharing economy are bringing about creative destruction of old economic models and changing the nature of business for the future.
The document discusses trends in ecommerce and digital marketing from an industry insider's perspective. It identifies the key challenges in 2015 as technology issues, integration across channels for marketing, and developing a single customer view. It emphasizes that retailers must keep up with constantly changing customer expectations around delivery, service, and experiences across all digital and physical touchpoints. Finally, it stresses the importance of having an integrated approach and single customer view to improve marketing, increase customer retention and lifetime value, and gain a competitive advantage.
This document summarizes survey results from 31 million surveys conducted in 88 countries regarding media consumption habits and how advertising influences purchasing decisions. Some key findings include: 82% of people browse online while watching TV, 84% use their mobile phone simultaneously; 80% said ads on TV and mobile influence purchases the most, while newspaper ads influence the least; 89% research products online before buying.
This document discusses Twitter's capabilities for brands to connect with consumers. It notes that Twitter is a live, public, and conversational platform that is accessible everywhere. It then provides data on consumer usage of mobile devices and shrinking attention spans. The rest of the document discusses how Twitter allows for live reach of audiences, everyday relevance to consumers, and engaging content creation. It provides examples of targeting capabilities through events, interests, keywords and more. Metrics are given showing impact on awareness, interaction, engagement, and purchase. The overall message is that Twitter's features allow for powerful connections with fragmented audiences.
Marketing technology is used by fewer companies than you may think, and those that do use it aren't doing so effectively, which means those that get it right can gain a significant advantage. Stewart Rogers will explain - in concert with his latest research - what martech will really do for your business, and why being an "owl" is better than being a "magpie" if you want to succeed.
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