GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He blogs [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Google Inc. yesterday announced the launch of their new URL shortener service: This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner that offer a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. We mentioned our URL shortener as a feature in both announcements, so we wanted to say a little [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 10, 2009
With a population of about 154,729,000 (UN estimate), Nigeria ranks as the 8th most populous country in the world. Add the fact that a sizeable percentage of this population is made-up of the youth, plus Africa’s 2nd largest economy (GDP nominal) and what you have is a very vibrant job market. It is thus not [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post titled “How to be a better blogger“, Kenyatykoon asked: “how should i ask for back links from blogs that are more popular than mine but in the same niche?? there are a few that i [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 22, 2009
If you are an African blogger and have your blog listed on Afrigator, chances are that you know about Gatorpeeps but can’t seem to understand what it is nor how to use it. Thus, the social networking website is grossly under-utilized by its users with the exception of a few who dominate the platform. This [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
I have attended two BarCamps in the last 5 months and lots of business cards were exchanged among participants. A common trend was to see some cards littered. Perhaps, the card owners shared too many and gave some out to people who didn’t really need them. Another common thing I noticed was people asking for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I had the privilege of witnessing Justin Hartman announce Gatorpeeps.com to the world during BarCamp Nigeria 2009 in Lagos Nigeria. After a few weeks of use, I am still excited about it. Gatorpeeps – essentially a subset of Afrigator – is a micro-blogging platform that enables users to share their thoughts in just 140 characters [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 17, 2009
The jury is out on who is the media leader in our contemporary world. On one side of the divide is the mainstream media, represented by CNN a leading international TV broadcaster and on the other side is social media, represented by Ashton Kutcher an American actor and former fashion model. I first got wind of [...]
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Monday, December 21, 2009
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