|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A
quarterly journal published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism, the
American University in Cairo
|
|
From the Center: An Editorial
Center director Abdallah Schleifer
welcomes readers to AdhamOnline in its new journal format. |
Yosri
Fouda Interview Causes Stir
Yosri
Fouda, Al Jazeera London bureau chief and Adham Center alumni, found himself in
the news when his interview with Ramzi bin Al-Sheeba, head of Al-Qaeda's military
committee, was broadcast on the anniversary of 9-11.
|
TBS
Issue 8 Examines Media in the Midst of War
The latest issue of the Adham Center's online journal Transnational
Broadcasting Studies focused on media and war, with articles and interviews
exploring the media's coverage of two conflictsSeptember 11 and its aftermath,
and the recent Israeli invasions in the West Bank. Interviews included CNN Chief
News Executive Eason Jordan, Abu Dhabi TV Deputy Director Mohamed Dourrachad,
and Abu Dhabi TV anchorman and executive producer Jasim Al-Azzawi. TBS
also talked with BBC World News Editor Jonathan Baker and others in a story
on media coverage in the West Bank. |
| Adham
Center graduate Khaled Dawoud was in Ramallah for Al-Ahram Weekly as Israeli
troops re-occupied the city. He told AUC TV and AdhamOnline about his experiences. |
Intifadat
Al-Aqsa Photographs at the Sony Virtual Gallery
In the wake of recent events in the West Bank, the Adham Center/Sony Gallery has
made this exhibition of photographs by Osama Silwadi, from a recent Sony Gallery
show available to a wider audience in this special online exhibition. The Sony
Virtual Gallery also includes historic photographs of King Fouad, the photographs
of Lehnert and Landrock, and an updated exhibition of Van-Leo's portraits. |
CNBC
Launches Business Program from Adham Center
Operating
from the Adham Center's AVID News Room, CNBC's Cairo bureau has been contributing
stories for CNBC's new weekly Middle East Business Report.
|
Abu
Dhabi TV Deputy Director Mohamed Dourrachad Honored at 2002 Annual Awards Dinner
AUC Provost Earl (Tim) Sullivan appointed Abu Dhabi TV Deputy Director Mohamed
Dourrachad an Associate of the Adham Center at this year's annual awards dinner. |
Congratulations
Class of 2002!
Dalia Ashmawi, Intesar Al-Shukry, Mervat Abou Oaf, Dina
Geith, Lena El Ghadban, Nadine Hallal, Dalia Mabrouk, and
Caroline Ghali received their master's degrees in Television Journalism in
June. |
Digitalization
Donation Upgrades Studio
A generous gift
from Sony Broadcast has allowed the Adham Center to complete the digitalization
of its studio facilities, now renamed in Sony's honor. |
Adham
Center Introduces New Course in Broadcast Arabic
The Adham Center has introduced a new course for its second-year master's candidates,
emphasizing reading, writing, and grammar used in the Arabic of the broadcast
media. This new initiative, in cooperation with AUC's Arabic Language Institute,
is designed to strengthen graduates' opportunities in the regional market, and
has been warmly welcomed by the broadcasting industry, with executives of Abu
Dhabi, Orbit, Dream, and NBC expressing their appreciation for the new course
to Adham Center director Abdallah Schleifer. |
Sony
Gallery Year in Review
It was an active year at the Adham Center's Sony Gallery for Photography, where
many of this year's exhibitions featured themes of spirituality and aspects of
the rich history of Egypt. |
Amin
Chairs JRMC Department
Dr. Hussein Amin, Adham Center senior associate and professor of journalism and
mass communication at the American University in Cairo, has taken over as chairman
of AUC's JRMC department. |
Rumi
Festival
The Adham Center and AUC's Performing and Visual Arts Department co-sponsored
a two-day festival featuring poetry readings, a photo exhibition, and screening
of the film "Rumi: The Wings of Love" by Shems Friedlander, director
of AUC's Apple Center for Graphic Communications and chairman of the Sony Gallery
International Advisory Board. |
In
Memoriam: Michael Hoffman
Michael Hoffman, publisher and executive director of Aperture (the leading still
photography gallery and publisher) and a member of the Sony Gallery's International
Advisory Board, passed away this year. |
In
Memoriam: Van-Leo
No photographic work has been more associated with the Sony Gallery for Photography
than that of Cairo's foremost portrait photographer, Van-Leo, who passed away
this year. |
Congratulations,
Soheir Fouad!
Pivotal Adham Center staff
person Soheir Fouad receives her Masters in TAFL. |
|
|
Kpd-online guide
linktrip
Do you publish a website and want it to reach the top of the search engines? If you do then you realize you need links. But, do you realize that you need to acquire high quality, relevant links? Here is the fact of the matter: search engines are becoming a lot more stringent on their rules for ranking websites. You need valuable links for your site to experience any serious movement in the rankings. Those looking to boost their website need to explore options made available via a Value Exchange. Through a Value Exchange, you can boost your potential to trade (exchange) links with sites that maintain a similar theme designed to build solid traffic building connections designed to boost business. Such exploration is advisable since the reason that you are building the site in the first place is to expand business potential. To do so, you need to examine the two common drawbacks that prevent getting the most out of an internet marketing campaign. The first drawback would entail performing you own step-by-step, tedious manual relevant link exchanges. Such a cumbersome causes a lot of slow delays which are not helpful to the business' success. The second drawback is the aftermath of using spammy automation systems. Yes, these systems can speed up placing links on the internet. However, the links are of minimal value and may DETRACT from your ability to improve search engine rankings. Needless to say, this is why such steps should be avoided. Automation can harm your business rather than help it so an alternative to it is needed. With a Value Exchange, you are able to avoid the aforementioned drawbacks and problems. Why is this so? With a Value Exchange, you will work with a finite number of quality sites. Links will then be placed on the sites and no further action will be taken. That means no manipulation designed to 'fool' the search engines will be employed. As a result, the links will be effectively indexed by the search engines. In turn, the website will receive a positive impact from the links. It will not suffer anything negative from the search engine spider since unethical manipulation or spamming is not being employed. There is also much expediency to working with a Value Exchange since it streamlines the entire process. As soon as you start to work with such an exchange, you will experience effective results in a relatively short period of time. Certainly, that will prove to be a huge help to business since needless delays in the process also delay the potential profits. Obviously, that is not the desired outcome anyone would hope for. As many will notice, a Value Exchange can be considered the easiest, quickest, and, ultimately, most successful method of getting the most value out of link placements. The process can be free to take part in which further adds to its value. Ultimately, those looking for a cost-effective, viable, and successful link building strategy, a link exchange may be the best process to explore.
Real time online dating service with dating games, instant message system, a photos rating, a dating forum, dating blogs and personals profiles with photos. New generation dating site www.FirstClickFriend.com where you can play intellectual dating game First Click Love, rate photos, try to become a hot person, create a real life meeting point, share your love blogs and have fun in the dating forum.
With so many great online dating sites sprouting up like 'wild flowers' in Canada and the USA, there must be some positive benefits for using online dating websites. When the internet was first launched, only a handful of people had the knowledge for developing websites and for the average person, hiring a website developer was extremely expensive. As a result, websites were mostly owned by the people who had control of this knowledge or by people who had enough money to invest in web development which in-turn resulted in most sites charging fees to access information and service. Now with technology being so accessible, the North American internet market has penetrated almost every home. Where one family could barely afford one computer, homes now have several desk tops and a couple of laptops. Canada dating services and dating services in the USA has also evolved from humble beginnings. To access their service for meeting local singles or initiating different types of relationships a user had to pay. Now there are many online dating sites that are offering free online dating services for users to choose from. Evolution of the Free Online Dating site has made access to meeting local singles simple and easy, where anyone who has access to an internet service and a computer is able to create a profile and begin connecting with other singles. With millions of singles looking for relationships, USA dating services has made huge leaps and bounds in popularity for the average user. With a population of 300 hundred million in the United States where most users are extremely sophisticated and computer savvy, individuals are finding that online dating sites are a great resource to chat and meet local singles in their area, network, find companionship or love. Canada has a much smaller population with approximately 30 million; however, the penetration of the internet in the country is over 95%. Canada people are also finding the benefits of online dating with millions of users accessing 100% Free Online Dating sites. So, with the introduction of online dating paid sites from its humble beginnings where there was less sophistication in-terms of search options, uploading pictures, chat functions; the evolution of meeting singles or connecting with people has dramatically changed. No longer are we most likely to marry our high school sweetheart or meet someone local, the introduction of the internet has changed the dating landscape. Interestingly enough, users fall into three major categories. The first group who are aged 50 plus had little to no computer exposure and now are learning to use this new technology to reap the benefits of the rich sources of information available on the net. You also see this age group using online dating sites to meet local singles in their area or join social networks. The second group is the X generation (35 plus) who had computers introduced to them in their high school years and slowly experienced the introduction and impact of the computer and internet through their following years. This generation saw computers as a luxury and most people began to get acquainted with computers and their limited available software slowly. Not sure if people remember but before the age of Microsoft Office there was a popular word processing program call Word Perfect that everyone used. The X generation who were in their early teens and twenty they did not have access to Free Online Dating sites and therefore, relationships were developed from their childhood, high school, bars, lounges etc. years. The new generation or the Y generation is been born into this tech society. Computers are normal as TV were normal to most o 2000 f us and as this younger generation ages the way they meet and develop relationships is going to be far different from our experiences. With Free Online dating sites and social networking services, the younger generation is connected up to their 'ying yang' to develop relationships not only from their neighbourhoods but from across their state or province or country to now having international connections with discussions exchanged immediately.
ycnow
Special note: This page was about Image Gallery of Villa La Lagune ycnow.com samui-villas.
What's New Here? - Wow!TEMPLATE
The internet is home to millions of websites all advertising different products or services and competing for your attention with their attractive website designs. Many websites advertise free templates that can be downloaded and used for your own website and others that offer professional looking templates for a small fee. The problem with these services is that they are common throughout the internet with many websites using the same themes. There is so much competition on the internet between businesses and by creating an original website it will enable you to have an advantage over the millions of similar looking sites. One way to make your website unique is to use your own photography as a theme for your site. This article will show you how to convert PSD files to Joomla templates to enable you to make your website one of a kind. PSD is an image file created by Adobe Photoshop that allows an image to be altered by the user in a number of different ways. A PSD file is layered and the individual layers can be added or subtracted as you like and the colours changed or altered. Once you have edited your file in Photoshop you can convert it into a Joomla template and create your very own original website. There are a number of different ways to convert the file and will depend on your knowledge of website design. If you are unable to perform the conversion yourself then it is a good idea to take advantage of the many web design companies that can handle it for you. You will need to provide them with the necessary PSD file and they will then create a custom Joomla template that you can begin using right away. There is usually a charge for these services and may take up to a couple of days. When converting PSD to Joomla template you will need to give unique names to the individual layers of the PSD file in order to allow Joomla to convert it correctly. Once you have given unique names to the individual layers you can then log onto one of many conversion sites and upload your image. Once the conversion is over you must download and open the zip file and copy the newly created folder into the Joomla website folder of the WAMP server. You must then go to template manager in the admin panel of your site to view the newly created template in your template list box. Set this template as your default and you have finished creating your own unique website. Converting PSD to Joomla template should only be attempted by experienced web users as the online conversion sites can occasionally have small bugs in the conversion process that will leave people scratching their heads if they are not sure how to correct it. If you are unsure it is better to enlist the help of the professionals, rather than spend hours on end searching for a tiny coding error.
Packs PREMIUM:
permet aux PME/PMI d'améliorer le référencement et le positionnement d'un site.
Adapté à tous les budgets à partir de 199 euros.
There is a continuous rise in the number of people creating their own ecommerce sites or online businesses because they know there is good money from them. These also brought about new and a myriad of services that help these businesses achieve their goals. And one of these are firms offering various seo services. It is a fairly young industry and therefore most of these companies are under a decade old. But that does not mean they do not know what they are doing. When your business is based on a website and relies heavily on the web to get your conversions or to get people to find you, definitely you need the help of search engine optimization or seo. Especially in the organic results where most of the really good traffic actually comes from. If you want to succeed in your own online business, you certainly want to rank at the top of these results. But achieving it is not easy especially if you are in a highly competitive industry or what they often called a niche. You need all the help that you can get. If you know next to nothing about seo, you can educate yourself about it through free and paid means. But it is best that you leave the task of doing your website's seo to a good seo company who has the experience and the expertise to get the job done for you. You pay an extra for this but think of it as a great investment and from which you will be reaping equally great rewards for the years to come. Here are a few of the seo services that you can expect to get from your seo firm. Keyword Research Keywords are the starting point with any search engine optimization. You need to know what keywords you should be targeting to help you get a high ranking in the organic search results. You need to know what keywords your potential customers will be searching for and definitely aim for those keywords. Your seo company do this seemingly tedious process for you and come up with the best keywords for your website or business. On this part, you may have to cooperate with them so they can have a better understanding of your business and from there work out the initial sets of keywords where they will be basing their research. Link Building If keywords are the ones that start your seo campaign, it is the link building that fuels your search engine optimization. Because the best way for your website to rank for a certain keyword to have a good link building strategy built for it. It is all about the anchor text that carries your keyword. It is all about linking to relevant websites. It is all about getting links from reputable sites and so on and so 5a8 forth. Your seo company should be able to provide you an effective link building campaign to give your site the boost it needs. Social Media Marketing The internet is all about connecting with other people and usually this is referred to as the social media. More and more seo firms today are offering social media in addition to their other usual seo services. Find an seo company that has a good grasp of Web 2.0 and the social media and has a track record of working within that sphere.
American
University in Cairo home page
|
|
| |