I love Google Doodles. Most marketers would kill people to prevent any manipulation of a company’s logo, but Google is an engineers’ company, and at the end of the day they can basically do whatever they want! They create Google Doodles to celebrate occasions through their logo and they mostly really fun.
I read an article about the best 2012 doodles, so I decided to do the same but highlighting only doodles targeted to Kuwait and relevant to the Arab region in general. To start off -
February 25th, 2012 – Kuwait National Day
Mohammed Abdelwahab 110th Birthday – March 13th
Mahmoud Mokhtar’s 121st Birthday – May 10th
Omar Khayyam’s 964th Birthday – May 18th
Al-Biruni’s 1039th Birthday – Sept 4th
AlRazi’s 1147th Birthday – August 26th
Abu Simbul temple – October 22nd
All of them except the Kuwait National Day were regional, but still I think they are worth mentioning. Its great that Google are doing this, because it gets us to remember all the great people and occasions which otherwise would be forgotten nowadays. Thanks Google for keeping us reading and learning about ourselves more than we can do nowadays as a culture.
قبل أربع سنوات كتبت عن تمثيل قطر بالألعاب الآسيوية و العدد الهائل من الرياضيين المجنسين (من كينيا و الصين و بلغاريا و غيرهم) .. هالسنة بالأولمبياد بعد الافتتاح الرائع و عرض المشاركين من جميع الدول قلت أشوف قطر منو دازين ..
بس أربعة من ١٢ مشارك غير مولودين بقطر، ٢ من المغرب ١ من مصر و ١ من السودان. ممكن يكونون بس مولودين بهذه الدول، ما أبي أفتي .. بس البحرينيين ما يعطون مجال للشك -
بلال منصور علي – كينيا
ليشان دولا – أثيوبيا
شيتايي إيشيتي – أثيوبيا
مريم يوسف جمال – أثيوبيا
ميمي بيليتي – أثيوبيا
تاجيتو دابا – أثيوبيا
علي حسن محبوب – كينيا
بيليسوما شوغي – أثيوبيا
غنزيب شومي – أثيوبيا
٩ من ١٢ رياضي و كل العدائين من أفريقيا! والله اللي كاسرين خاطري الثلاث لاعبين البحرينيين .. و الشعب البحريني شلون يشجعونهم؟
Finally someone used the QR code and correctly for their advertising! Gulf Bank’s ad in today’s AlQabas (not sure if it was published anywhere else before) is a great example of using QR codes successfully.
The ad is targeting high school graduates, who are probably the most tech savvy and most in touch with technology. This is great targeting and these students who scan this code on their smartphones will be directed straight to Gulf Bank’s youth Red program – Try it.
Funny enough, I had marketing company approach my company trying to introduce selling through QR codes, and they charge around 150 – 200 KD per use which comes up to thousands for business cards. They were surprised I knew about QR codes, and they were surprised how much I knew about QR codes! Anyway, if you want to create a QR code you can create your own for free there are many many sources such as – QRstuff or BeQRious or Qurify or many other just google QR code generator.
I've been blogging since 2004, but on and off since 2010. I spent my last 10 working in a mix of PR / Marketing / Finance, mostly all three together in some capacity. As of mid-2012, I am working in Digital Marketing / Online Advertising.
I'm from Kuwait (the name of the blog gives it away), and I blog in English and Arabic.
This blog is a personal blog, and not categorized in a specific field.
