15 December 2007
Arab bloggers primed for more exposure

Amman, Jordan: Jeeran, the Arab World's leading community for user generated content recently announced that its popular blogging service is now accessible on Facebook in both the Arabic and English languages.

Through the launch of this new application, Jeeran is granting its users the opportunity to place their blogs on their Facebook profiles therefore enabling its bloggers to benefit from Facebook's wide reach and to gain readership for their blogs.

The Arabic blogging service was originally not available to Facebook's users, but now with Jeeran's new Facebook application the whole Facebook community can benefit from Jeeran's popular blogging services.  

Commenting on the launch, President and Co-Founder of Jeeran, Mr. Omar F. Kodsi said, "Through our experience and our observations of popular online trends it has come to our attention that Bloggers tend to be amongst the more demanding segments of internet users. One of the more pressing demands placed by online bloggers is the ability to blog at anytime, anywhere. We therefore decided to capitalize on Facebook's huge success by launching the application to address this need as well as to give our bloggers more exposure.

Director of Innovation and Co-founder of Jeeran, Mr. Laith Zraikat stated, "Jeeran prides itself with being the largest Arab blogging service in the world. This achievement has come as a result of our team's dedication and commitment to being ahead of our users in realizing and addressing their needs. Launching this application is just one more step in the right direction as we strive to give our users more exposure and better user experience by allowing them to blog and share their content on Facebook.

It is important to note that Jeeran is a leading provider of online blogging services and Arabic language online services in general.

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About Jeeran
Jeeran was launched in 2000 as the first Arab web hosting community, with a young a futuristic vision to provide Arab users with the latest web technologies and the means to communicate and connect. Its services translate to more than innovation and creativity and they open new opportunities to the advertiser to reach millions of users by relating to their interest and demands. The Jeeran community has reached over 1 million members, and over 600,000 thousand websites built and over 65,000 active blogs. Its social network revolves around its users content and the relationships between its members, and thus it has been a pioneer in pushing for the power of user generated content ever since it was launched.

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TRACCS Jordan                                          
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E-mail: jordan@traccs.net

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