At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their …
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During the past days I had the honor to offer the keynote address opening the thematic part of the 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue organized by the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) and sponsored by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has been an event that I have been waiting to happen for …
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 Photo credit: Kenzo de Bruyn Yesterday (October 19, illness 2011) I had the pleasure to join live but virtually 45 students very interested in communication, for sale public relations, events management, advertising and social media. They were attending their weekly Public Relations Seminar Series organized by Geert Van den Eijnden at Lessius Mechelen in Belgium …
This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense …
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It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries …