Google+ 24hours on!
Its been one full day since my invite to Google+ worked. Well, the invites never really arrived, despite the persistence of a good friend and brother of mine, who against all odds sent the invite a record two (maybe three) times. I also left my name and email address several times on the Google+ homepage […]
Web Analytics: Why you should care?
First published as: Demystifying Web Analytics Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website.
Demystifying Web Analytics
(Preferred title: What the hell is web analytics?) Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website. Let’s start with an example. You own a shoe shop, and you want at the end of every month, quarter or year to know stuffs like:
Goverments are increasingly tampering with the internet, and we all need to act to stop them….
Read: Civil Society Statement to the e-G8 and G8 I have always seen the Internet as a free space. One where you can be all you want and do all you want. My believe of the Internet’s freedom is underscored by the virtual absence of any regulatory body besides ICANN and the regional NICs regulating […]
User Permissions – Drupal Versus Joomla!
I am a big fan of Joomla! – but I am beginning to find Drupal a more flexible and perhaps powerful CMS tool in the hands of a developer , who is smart enough not to consider building his own CMS software from scratch. One such flexibility comes from the user permissions system in each […]
Nigeria’s most monitored and reported election season yet
Young people from across all walks in Nigeria are bringing a mix of skills, vigilance and brute determination to the tables this election season. As Nigeria decides (#NigeriaDecides) who of the mass of candidates should be handed the mantle of leadership across state and federal legislative and executive institutions, unlike ever before, young people are […]
The Apple iPhone 4, The GoPano and Citizen Journalism
The rise of citizen journalism is no doubt on the increase and with improving technologies it becomes easier to start up as a citizen journalist. Some mainstream media companies have not only identified and supported citizen journalism, they have increasingly institutionalised this kind of journalism – a case in point is CNN’s iReport platform, which […]
Thoughts from the NTC
Yes, I changed the title of this post from ‘Notes from the NTC’ to Thoughts from the NTC. I am adding the collaboratively taken notes in another post and prefer that takes the title ‘Notes from NTC’ Its the second day of the NTEN Non-profit technology conference (NTC) and my third in Washington DC. Even […]
Maximizing Social Networks
Social Networks have become the signature word of the second incarnation of the Internet. The first incarnation being the development of hyperlinks and the the hypertext mark-up language – which literally made it possible for several documents to link to and from several others. The second incarnation – christened web 2.0 by Tim O’Rilley – […]
Thoughts on Projects and Project Management (I): Document all things
I am writing this, first as a note to myself and then to others. I work in an environment where there are several activities best grouped as projects. No project management methodology is employed and project/team leads run their activities as they best deem fit. Since I am PMP, I chose to abide by the […]