Dubai, October 2009 - Baraka Ventures, a social entrepreneurship and web technology business incubator and advisory services company, the first sponsor of TEDxDubai launched the TEDxDubai.com site on Zeedna, the software as a service social publishing platform.

Visitors can sign-on, connect to other TEDxsters on the community, use micro-blogging to tweet on the TEDxDubai site and on Twitter and blog about their favorite TED speakers.  Organizers can upload videos to their site video library and process event applications online.  The site uses Zeedna’s comment feature enabling users to interact and discuss their opinions on the progress of the event planning. The TED USA team can monitor the activities and excitement for the upcoming event.

Zeedna is the first middle east based social publishing platform that is well suited for ...