Dealing with the curse of mobile instant messaging
I was intrigued by MSN messenger (or whatever it was called back in the late 90s) – this was before mobile phones became a reality (in Nigeria) and sms the cheapest and preferred means of one-sided and multi sided conversations. I thought yahoo messenger was cool – yes, I, like you had a yahoo account […]
A rising role for IT: McKinsey Global Survey results
Aspirations—and current expectations—for IT have never been higher. Executives continue to set exacting demands for IT support of business processes, and they see an even larger role for IT in a competitive environment increasingly shaken up by technology disruptions. These are among the results of our sixth annual business technology survey, where we asked executives […]
Gate crashing events: Tips that worked!
Its lunch time at the launch of Google Engage in South Africa – and I thought to share tips on gate crashing registration/invitation only events.
These worked!
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 […]
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 […]
Notes from the NTC
Here are urls to collaboratively taken notes: How this works: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1lOye5S3xi4nofeP2ocXIkCP8FuYvwC0NHuos8MhbZ5k&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day three: 19th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZODNiZWVkZWYtNDQyNC00NzdjLWJiYWItMDIzYjE1Nzc2ZGJi&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day two: 18th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZOGUyOTQ2YjAtY2RiYi00MWVkLTlkMmUtMzEzYTc3ZjkyOTBl&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day one: 17th March 2011 – https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZNGRhNGYyNTItNWIwZC00OTk2LTgxMTQtZjgwOWUzNTY4MGZk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
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 […]