#Ftour20: When The Magic of Ramadan meets the sparks of a community
Submitted by Lamia Ben hiba on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 6:53am
A beautiful and enchanting mood roamed on the lovely bank of Bouregreg, as the magic of Ramadan mixed with the ever sparkling Community of SMC-Casablanca into one of the most exciting events of the year: Ftour 2.0.
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For this year's Ftour, we set to "explore the Moroccan web diaspora, one community at a time". And so, we organized the event around 8 theme tables, each representing one of the most active communities of the Moroccan web landscape. From Foursquare, Instagram, twitter, Facebook affectionados, bloggers and photographers, to Mobility and Enterprise 2.0 evangelists. Everyone present found himself a place among his fellow community members and everyone rejoiced to finally translate the virtual experience into a real one.
And because no one likes to talk on an empty stomach, we first set out to break our fasting around beautifully served tables dressed with exquisite Ramadanesque Moroccan-Only gastronomy.
Yasser (@YasserMonkachi) and Riad (@DocteurHo) then opened the ball reminding us of the main principles behind thriving in the Social Media Era. As drawn from the words of Social Media Club founder, Chris Heuer:
Be Human. Don’t Just Be Human, Be Yourself
Be Aware. Don’t Just Be Aware, Be Smart
Be Honest. Don’t Just Be Honest, Have Integrity
Be Respectful. Don’t Just Be Respectful, Live by the Golden Rule
Be a Participant. Don’t Just Be a Participant, Contribute Value
Be Open. Don’t Just Be Open, Be an Agent of Change
Be Courageous. Don’t Just Be Courageous, Be Willing to Fail
After a word from our partners (Maroc Telecom) Lamia (@lammiia) gave a quick overview of the philosophy and the running of the event.
Let the Discussions begin
"Navigating through the communities we are part of and converging our multi-presence into a consistent coherent virtual identity is what makes the web experience as rich and exciting as we're witnessing today. We want Ftour 2.0 to offer that kind of experience IRL." And so it did! Discussions were taking place around every imaginable subject. Speakers from each table shared their insight with the rest of us. The whole event was definitely about learning, sharing, networking, having fun & making a difference.
We can't help but be grateful to all of those who made this event a success. A huge Thank you goes to our SMC Casablanca lovely family and to everyone who followed the event through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (#Ftour20).
More photos can be found on the SMC Casablanca Official Facebook Fan Page.
In the words of one of SMC Casablanca friends "Bouregreg will long remember this evening..." Until we meet again, never forget "If you Get it, Share it!"
Some impressions from #Ftour20:
On the 10th of August : 598 tweets generated 614,459 impressions, reaching an audience of 213,443 followers
Ftour 2.0, 2nd Edition is a Social Media Club Casablanca Event in partnership with Maroc Telecom.
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