Yesterday Gamal Mubarak, the son of the Egyptian president, gave his first webcast "dialogue" with the public via Sharek ("Participate") his flashy new "social" website.
I'd love to get into a discussion about Egyptian presidential succession and what Gamal means for Egypt and the region, but will instead stick within my nerdish Beep Beep mandate and ask: does anyone know who worked on the technical side of
?
Compare its fairly sleek, simple, clean look (above) with that of
the site for Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party
, of which Gamal is the policy chief:
Or, check out the sites of the Ministries of
or
, or better yet, the
. It would be interesting to know if Sharek was done in-house by people in Gamal's brain trust, or if some outside talent were involved.
Combined with Dubai's Sheikh Mohamed on
/
and Jordan's Queen Rania
, this makes three, the magical, cliche-ridden number that journalists need to declare a trend. So let it be declared:
regional leaders who consider themselves modernisers / reformists are seeing the "social" web as a good way to get that message across
. You read it here third....
