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 […]
The 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly: One man’s view
Original posted to: The CIVICUS Blog It’s been a great two days and I am excited to get the third underway. Yet it saddens me to note that with the third day comes the end of the CIVICUS World Assembly, the largest gathering of civil society in the world. An unintended consequence?
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!
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.
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 […]