The Best Times to Tweet During Ramadan [REPORT] The of volume of tweets increases significantly during Ramadan, but when should your brand tweet to take advantage of a broader... Wamda • 23 July, 2012 Social Media
Moroccan Entrepreneurs Bring Social Media Day to MENA On June 30th, Social Media Day in Casablanca, Morocco drew over 150 participants to the country’s tech capital to meet, greet, a... Karim Jazouani • 16 July, 2012 Conferences Social Media
Demystifying E-Commerce: How to Offer Competitive Customer Service A customer service strategy for an online store is as critical as it is for a brick and mortar. Some may start with the misguided... Nader Museitif • 24 June, 2012 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
Foota Towels - Making Egyptian Towels Famous Egypt is famous for its cotton. The best towels in the world are also manufactured here, but there isn’t a recognised Egyptian towel b... Omar Aysha • 19 June, 2012 Design Marketing Fashion
In the Arab World, Social Media Has Fast Developed into a Medium for the Masses During Tunisia's revolution, Asma Mansour's parents kept her locked at home for her own safety. But Mansour was continuously in touch with... Knowledge @Wharton • 14 June, 2012 Social Media
Why E-Commerce Startups Can’t Ignore Pinterest This series by Mohannad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical... Mohanad Ghashim • 14 June, 2012 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
Growth of Active Twitter Users in the Arab World [Infographic] In the vein of his recent infographic on Facebook Users in the Arab World, today Khaled AlAhmad (@shusmo) published an infographic... Wamda • 07 June, 2012
Beirut's The Dream Matcher Demonstrates the Value of a Niche Social Network I was recently invited to a second dream matching event in Beirut by The Dream Matcher, an ambitious project that aims to improve the p... Ramy Ghaly • 20 May, 2012 Social Networks
The Rise of Arabic on the Web [Infographic] It took 30 years for 2 billion people to come online, but 1 billion more will come online in the next 4 years, according to... Nina Curley • 23 April, 2012 Arabic Content
Hold the Vegetables: How 'Now vs. Later' Affects Customer Choice If people typically watch a kung-fu flick or a trashy teen comedy on DVD before the documentary they rented several days earlier, it only... Knowledge @Wharton • 26 April, 2012 E-commerce Marketing
6 Tips for Effective Networking On the heels of Arabnet, some advice on networking:As an entrepreneur, you attend a lot of networking events and over the past two years I h... Esraa Haidar • 03 April, 2012
SMEX Releases A Guide To Create Facebook Pages with Impact Social Media Exchange (SMEX), released earlier this week a new Arabic-language guide Creating Facebook Pages with Impact (Arabic): A Guide ... Wamda • 03 April, 2012 Digital Marketing
Design Thinking to Disrupt Lebanese NGOs Desmeem’s “D-Factor” Day witnessed scores of Lebanese designers of all stripes trying out at the Babel Theater stage this past weekend for a... Said Hamideh • 15 March, 2012 Education
Social Media Trends in Saudi Arabia and the UAE [Infographic] Did you know that 3 out of 7 internet users in the Arab World are on social media? And that in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, logging on to... Wamda • 22 March, 2012 Trends
African Startup Launches SMS Marketing Platform For Businesses Three months ago, African entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda launched Rasello, the first platform allowing African small businesses to... Maya Rahal • 26 February, 2012 Mobile Marketing SMS
How to Increase Your Social Media Influence With Klout Last month I compiled a list of The 100 Most Influential Arabs on Twitter based on scores from social media influence tool... Khaled El Ahmad • 15 February, 2012
Going Mobile: Are You Ready to Put the “m” in “www”? Looking for recent movie information? If you go to imdb.com on a smartphone to research this information, you’ll be welcomed by a mobile o... Gaby Abi Aad • 14 February, 2012 Mobile Mobile Apps
The Middle East Daily Deal Site Boom: Healthy Market or Just Fashionably Late? Daily Deal sites in the Middle East region show a staggering growth of 42 % over the last 6 months of 2011. Is it simply a case of a... Mo Ali Yusuf • 13 February, 2012 E-commerce
Looking to Get a Story Out? PressPass Can Help Businesses and citizen journalists looking to break a story now have a new resource in their arsenal (aside from Wamda, that is!).... Nina Curley • 09 February, 2012 Digital Media
How to Build Interactivity with Customers: A Look at Dubizzle’s Email Survey Around end of November last year, famous UAE-based online free classifieds site Dubizzle, who just expanded their marketing team, wanted... Gaby Abi Aad • 26 January, 2012 Digital Marketing
Launching a Luxury Fashion Site During an Economic Downturn An economic downturn can be the perfect time to start a business- competition is lower, office space deals may be better, and businesses... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2012 Fashion
Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet Did you realize that the next largest social network after Facebook (which now has around 845 million users) is YouTube? Or that Google+ is... Wamda • 02 February, 2012
4 Simple Ways to Create Interactive Experiences on Your Website I grew up in Cyprus, and one of the activities I did as a kid was play a SEGA arcade game called Wonder Boy. The game was so much fun... Gaby Abi Aad • 26 January, 2012 Digital Marketing
Creative Commons' Joichi Ito: Arab Unrest Altered Social Media's Image This piece kicks off our partnership with Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, in which Wamda will offer weekly content tailored to entrepreneurs... Knowledge @Wharton • 26 January, 2012