Jouney to Jeddah: Homeward Bound

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Mar 202008
 
Last night: The Sun sinking into the Red Sea

Just a quick post – last hour in the hotel here at Jeddah. Then heading to the airport – women aren’t meant to be travelling alone, so this could be interesting.

I overnight in Dubai (should be at my hotel after 9 I guess) and leave first thing in the morning for the last leg home to Sydney.

I will try to Twitter from my mobile phone but don’t worry if you don’t hear from me for a few days. Thanks to everyone who had taken such an interest in this trip. Sad to be leaving Saudi Arabia, but happy to be heading home.

*waves passport and skips off*

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Journey to Jeddah – Day Three and Four

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Mar 182008
 

Four stories of chandelier anyone? First of all, 2webcrew live podcast with comments channel is about to start. I’m usually on there, but all this travelling has meant I’ve not been able to do it for 3 weeks, but still, they are doing a fabbo job! Duncan Riley from TechCrunch, Cameron Reilly from The Podcast Network and Bronwen Clune of Norg Newspapers. And the usually assorted wierdos and geeks. Background first, then Day One. And day two is about Women and Identity in Saudi Arabia. Day Three and Four have been similar to each other. You might like to know: Continue Reading…

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Journey to Jeddah – Day One

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Mar 152008
 

(Background to the “New Arab Woman’s” project) Well two things happened. One was before I even got to Saudi Arabia. I arrived in Dubai airport and realised my Nokia 95 wasn’t picking up a service provider. Somehow international roaming had got switched off. I had it on when I went to New Zealand a while ago, but since then I had upgraded – certainly a new SIM card cos the Optus guys told me it was better to have U-Sim or whatever it was called. I was told – promised actually – that the settings would be the same, but Continue Reading…

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Eight Random Laurel Facts: Some old Meme thing

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Mar 132008
 

Waiting to find out if my lost tickets to Saudi Arabia will resurface today or if the flight will be postponed til tomorrow. Apparently the reservation didn’t get ticketed, whatever that means. Dubai is riding into the rescue. I hope This was sent to me on December 2007, from Personalize Media Gary Hayes, so I guess I owe him one while I fill in time: The rules: 1- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.2 – People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.3 – Continue Reading…

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Job: Community Manager – Dubai

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Jul 252007
 

The gang at MBC are awesome – this just might be the Online Community manager job of the year – please post this job and link to them? MBC are a Middle Eastern TV and Media company – I think they have 150 million viewers, with a music channel and some others, – and a focus on ‘New Arab’ Women. This is really important project, in my eyes – the opportunity to mix social media with social good. My understanding is that iMatter is a project to work with Arab women in a blogging, wiki, forum environment. Social Media giving Continue Reading…

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