Tag: Social Media
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#BringBackOurGirls: Reaction on Michelle Obama campaign for return of kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls
United States First Lady Michelle Obama participated in a support campaign for return of kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls allegedly taken by the Boko Haram (The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad) Michelle Obama had a picture holding a card saying Bring Back Our Girls (the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls is used to promote the…
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Social Media Commentary on Pakistan Budget 2013-14
Budget 2013 Storify by Chowrangi Thu, Jun 13 2013 01:41:06 0 0 Edit Budget 2013 Social Media Commentary on Pakistan Budget 2013-14 Budget Expectations Aisha Khan@Aishaazeemi Instead of giving free laptops, provide free education. #Budget2013 Wed, Jun 12 2013 11:34:15 ReplyRetweetFavorite Budget Announcements Gharidah Farooqi@GFarooqi So no announcement of minimum wage for workers as PMLN…
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Karachi Rain 2012
After days of have and have not, it finally rained in Karachi today. Rain in Karachi comes with power outages and traffic jams. Years of excavation by MQM, in the name of repairs and upgrades, has done nothing to improve the drainage system. As soon as it rains a few millimeters, roads and alleys turn…
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Blogging vs Journalism: Talat Hussain thinks Bloggers are not Journalists
Social Media is abuzz on a statement by famous TV anchor cum journalist, Talat Hussain. The veteran journalist thinks quite low of the bloggers and has high plans for how the social media, especially Twitter, should be used. Talat refers to bloggers as groups who have angled themselves as journalists, while they are not. He…
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Colors of Khewra Salt Mines covered by Bloggers and Social Media Activists
My Desire and Dream to Break the Ice: Geeks, Bloggers, Social Media Activists and the Writers are hard to go away from their Laptops, Netbooks and some old stuff like Pens and some blanks pages to write on. But Me as Social Media Activist and Blogger at same time was thinking out of odds and…