Small business via social media !

Last week I was invited to birthday celebration in Al Amerat. One of my friends bring to me a date with chocolate named Meshan  and said “ just taste it” because she know that I am one who doesn’t trust in any product if it is not a familiar brand for personal reasons. I didn’t want to embarrass her and I taste it. I never forgot the taste; I didn’t believe that it was an Omani product because it was amazing. When I came back home, I just searched about it and I found that Meshan Dates is a project established in September 2011 by Wafa, Shatha, Ahed and Waad Al Jabri. This project aims to present Omani Dates mixed with chocolate and high quality of Arabic and European flavors in a modern ways.

The four sisters started working in a room in their house in Al Amerat. Then, they expanded to a workshop with a capital of 500 OMR. Not to mention, Meshan provides Omani Dates as a gift for different occasions such as birthdays, weddings, meetings and official gifts with appropriate and low prices for all buyers.

Meshan distributes its products for both Omanis and foreigners from 6-65 ages.  One Year passed, Meshan expanded to deal with public and private institutions. Meshan had the honour to provide 70 Kilos of Omani Dates for the Diwan Royal Court in a cultural event in Paris. Also, they had participated in the Sultan Qaboos University in the Silver Jubilee of the University.

They continue to promote their products by using enormous approaches of advertisements on social media by having page on instagram and recently they started to work on twitter and facebook.

Basically, the government of Oman supports Meshan to continue its productions. Many offers were provided to improve Meshan either offering new environments for Meshan or sending Meshan's owners abroad to get new experiences or attending courses in producing chocolates. Not to forget, producing dates with a mixture of traditions and modernity helped Meshan to success as dates are symbol of Oman's culture and all Omanis provide dates in every special event.

And I have delivered some dates with different flavors for my family gathering for next weekend. Don’t miss the chance and start to deliver :)

* You can contact with Mishan Dates :

 Mobile: 97792463 -92771977

Instagram: @meshanoman

CEPS Society ♥

Within the last few years, social media has become more integral in the lives of students. I will never forget the day I joined Facebook when I was at age of 13, my mother was always bothering me as I was wasting my time on Facebook instead of studying. Now as I am university student, Facebook to me is more than important. The most important thing in Facebook to me is the CEPS-SQU group that I am joining which is for commerce students. As other educational committees in the world, Oman's universities take place to get social especially in Sultan Qaboos University.

If not daily, in fact every two days I check the page of CEPS-SQU to know what is updated in term of exhibition, conferences, workshops and even in business news. Anyone of commerce student should join the group not just to share knowledge. Students interact actively in the group as they share activities with each other that related to studies and careers, exchange notes, lessons, experiences, ask and get answers.

You can join us in our group #CEPS-SQU :)

Back to BBM :O !

 

I remember in 2009 most of my friends bought a BlackBerry device. They were found of the company super fast messaging and chatting app (BBM) to the extent that I can tell they had bought a BB just to use BBM like people. The device innovative hardware keyboard and the app resulted in a new level of effectiveness and swiftness. Two years later, most of my friends replaced their phones by iPhones and Androids.

I am one of the BBM users who use the WhatsApp at the same time, which has the same concept of BBM. The few things I prefer in BBM over WhatsApp, and the other main messaging Apps. Firstly, in BBM there is no phone number which gives you control over who is connected via the App, so I can say that BBM is safe than other chatting apps because I choose my contacts with adding who I want via PIN . Secondly, BBM Groups – Shared Calendar for up to 30 people, a todo list you can assign functions to people, and a photo sharing with comments section. In addition, the Delivered & Read notifications that give you delivered to Server (grey checkbox) delivered to device (Blue D) Read by user (Green R).

Now BBM is available for iphone and Android and around 20 million people download it. The funniest issue is that all my friends that got rid of BB have get back to BBM in their iphone and android.

 As everyone know that iphone and android have better features than BlackBerry but I still have my BB and love my keyboard and other features on my Q10.