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There was a recent debate among Lebanese on what hashtag to use to greet-The Lebanese way- in the morning.
Some people chose #sabaho while others chose #saba7o
what is your choice?
vote now!

Following an earlier post we posted involving the regional twitter trends in the Arab/MENA region, and the fact that this regional trends do not exist, #ArabNetME Just broke the trends and is currently globally trending!

Keep the good work Flowing!

Lets swim with the Twitter wale!

In less then 4 hours, the biggest arab web event ever to happen is taking place in Beirut: ArabNet.

Quoting the website:

“ArabNet 2010 is the first international conference for the Arab web industry, bringing together leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities.“

The event will be covered by all media and will embrace all sorts of live coverage; from live video stream, to TV, interviews, and last but not least social media including live blogging, microblogging and illustrated blogging.

An event this big is a certain trend, however while investigating twitter trends, we just noticed that there are no trends convering the Arab or MENA Region:

Weird no? For a number of countries that have heavy users, and for a big amount of trending trends and web industry boom, it is strange how we can’t even know what is trending on twitter in the Arab World or MENA region.

Will twitter find its way to work this around?

Will #ArabNetME ring the bell for the twitter geeks and awaken them from the stupidity of not doing this?

Will #ArabNetME hit the charts in the next couple of days?

Lets see if we, the Online Arabs, could send a direct message to twitter and maybe swim with their famous overload wale…

See you at ArabNetME, the best event, the best team and the best trend!

Bernard Sadaka (@sdkaaa) @ArabNetME Ambassador

ArabNetME Useful Links:

• Website
• Registration
• LinkedIn Group
• Facebook fan page
• @ArabNetME(Twitter)
• Official Hashtag #ArabNetME

In collaboration with its supporting partners and media partners, ArabNet organized groundbreaking pre-conference workshops in 7 MENA countries to foster a sense of community, and instill continuity and longevity in the ArabNet experience.

Register now to ArabNetME at: http://arabnet.me/rform.php

Ways to interact with ArabNetME on:

ArabNetME Website is http://arabnet.me (All you need to know about ArabNetME)

ArabNetME Blog is http://blog.arabnet.me/

ArabNetME LinkedIn group is her here (Great discussions there about event’s sessions)

ArabNetME facebook is here (Fan page and great place to network)

ArabNetME twitter is @ArabNetME (Official Twitter Account- Use Hashtag #ArabNetME)

I have shared with the online community this coveritlive session where we all track #ArabNetME; Enjoy!
To view this is mobile version go this link.

If you can’t post from coveritlive, or if the session is on standby, simply go to twitter and post a status from there with the Hashtag #ArabNetME, it will automatically appear here.

In an early discussion on facebook, following my retweet of @AskLEBGov tweet:

“Don’t ask what ur country can do for u, but what u can do for ur country “JFK tweet with #AskLEBGov, we will channel it to the Gov!

found here, my friend Rihab El Hélou drew my attention that this quotation was in fact created by Khalil Gibran our famous Lebanese Writer and philosopher 36 years before JFK!

Quoting Rihab:

Actually, Khalil Gibran published the above saying in his 1925 work titled “The New Frontier”, Thirty-six years before President Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address.

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.” Khalil Gibran

I’m not pretty sure how can we correct this, what we can do is to circulate it!

We are great Lebanese! And I’m proud of that! Who will be the next Gibran? The Next JFK?