Events

Active ingredients: Facebook Ads Platform, Market Targeting, Performance Monitoring. Indications & Usage - For every one who has a product, startup, event, or anything that can be advertised. - Learn how to create a Facebook ad campaign. - Learn how to build your creative (text, image). - Learn how to test multiple creatives. - Target specific users. - Monitor, and optimize your campaigns. About the Physician Ali Chehade is an Event Organizer and Community Curator at AltCity. Ali teaches Social Media at the Lebanese American University, and is the founder of The Dream Matcher. Possible...

Christmas is the time of sharing and giving! We are collecting at AltCity mostly clothes, blankets, baby food, dry and canned food and whatever is needed to help the Syrian refugees families. You have to know that the majority of the refugees are women and children from all ages! You can place your donations at AltCity, our doors are open daily from Monday to Friday from 9 till 12 midnight. Call us to get more details 01 742 582. [facebook event]

Each year, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day (December 10), embassies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands worldwide screen a documentary film about human rights that has been selected by Amnesty International Nederland. This year, in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy, the documentary Forbidden Voices will be screened at AltCity on Tuesday, December 10 at 7pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion about women's rights and (cyber)feminism in Lebanon. ‘Forbidden Voices’ is a documentary by Barbara Miller, subtitled in English. The film portrays three influential cyber...

MENA+SocialGood: Technology for Social Good in the Arab World An interactive virtual Global Summit on the role of the internet, social media & technology play in enabling Social Good and shaping the future of the Arab World. ~~~~ Main Event Hub: Technology Lab, Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington DC, +25 speakers participating globally through Cisco partnership, +15 independently organized meet ups around the world, +30,000 participants, +400,000 engaging via social media, active ‘how to' sessions. Join a meet up in your city or join register to join us online! www...

AltCity is happy to be co-organizing, with MAP, the second public discussion on Peace Journalism! We're excited about this one because MAP has invited a very special guest in the field: Steven Youngblood, professor of peace journalism in the US, and the Director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism, at Park University. Our guest will be sharing his insights and experiences with the teaching and practice of peace journalism in different parts of the world; the role it plays in elections; the US perspective on Lebanese media; and the Lebanese perspective on US coverage of Lebanese news. As...

Have you ever generated money from the media content you create? Do you want to share this content with others all around the world? Do you want to learn how to generate some revenue from your online content? If so, this workshop is for you. Join this Demotix workshop on “Generating Revenue from Online Content”, with Demotix Chief Editor Wais Bashir on Monday October 1st, 2012 from 4.30 to 7.30 pm at AltCity. This workshop is free of charge and it is aimed at aspiring or current citizen journalists (especially photo/video citizen journalists), and online content creators. If you have any...

  Media & Money Unconference @ AltCity, Beirut - Sat Sept 29th Please join us for a 1-day practical “unconference” on how to make money through media! As part of AltCity’s fall events, we're organizing a BarCamp on Media & Money on Saturday September 29, 10am - 5pm. It is open to anyone interested in learning about how to make money through media...with all the wonders and benefits and challenges that come from running a media-related business in Lebanon! How can media startups in Lebanon benefit from new trends and opportunities to monetize content and develop revenue streams? How can we...

After hosting over 90 events at AltCity, with 40+ partners, and 2500 visitors,   We are holding our 1st "Open House" & Open Invitation to Collaborate! Friday, September 28, 20126 - 8pm Come learn more about our community media, tech, design & startup support space! We will give an overview of what AltCity has achieved so far and our plans for the coming months. Plus, we look forward to hearing from you, your ideas, and ways we might be able to work together.  This will be followed by live music.  AltCity is located in the Montreal Bldg, Hamra St (Mezzanine floor), after...

AltCity Media Trainings! (scroll down for Arabic) AltCity is organizing a series of media trainings in September 2012. All workshops are free of charge and consist of 2 sessions, two weeks apart. Participants must attend both sessions. 1) Basic Social Media for CSOs (civil society organizations) 2) Online Media Advocacy for CSOs These trainings are aimed at the individuals within civil society organizations who are responsible for their organization’s media and/or communications. In these workshops, you will learn how to use new / social media tools for more effective communications and...