How much of your information have you given to the social sites that, their are using for their A/B tests to better their companies performances and advertising pitches? Robert Galbraith below writes about the tough responsibilities such sites have… but I also think you have a responsibility as a user to watch what you share…
Let me begin this post with a quote, “Preparing children and young people for the transition to adulthood has always been one of humanity’s great challenges, with human sexuality and relationship at its core. Today, in a world with AIDS, how we meet this challenge is our most important opportunity in breaking the trajectory of the epidemic.” Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS…
I’m thinking we all by now have linkedIn profiles and we are updating them occasionally and interacting with people there continuously. If not you need to open a new tab now and google LinkedIn then start populating it, you will thank me later. You see if you have it set up already you know that…
Have no job yet but you are good with online activities? I have a solution for you, Turn yourself into a walking billboard. With this you invest a great deal of time into your personal brand and abilities. It also means you will need to focus on different ways to turn yourself into an industry expert or thought…
As a social media and content marketing person I have had a fair share of finding bloggers to assign specific projects to. Most times when I have project information that I need to reach people or I need certain content to share mainly in regard to personal views and opinions, finding this kind of content…
I have been doing this for two years creating content for brands and campaigns and I have realized that many brands can’t create content that can make them revenue or even prompt their clients to engage back with them. Content creation and marketing is not an easy thing as most people think, mainly if you…
It is here the mute button on twitter which is going to see many brands loss mileage online. It seem like Twitter is using this mute button to help boost it’s advertising. So how does this muting button work? The question very tweep online is asking. The answer is when you mute someone all their…
Oh yes thank you Twitter for the new look, yeah… you really outdid yourself. Question though, are you trying to compete with Facebook in anyway? I understand you want adverts but did you have to go and become Facebook? After playing around with the new look I have realised that, the year I joined this Social site…
A new infographic has been published by Finances Online regarding the things we look for on social media and segmented them between genders. We all know why we are on social, why we engage with it the way we do, but do you know that we differ in the way we use it and what…
Two thirds of the world’s population have no access to internet and these two giant tech companies have come up with projects to connect all of us, have ourselves a global village. The aim here is to help everyone have a chance to compete favourable on the world map, no one greater than the other,…
Okay so what do I mean with that title – let me first break it down with what those two phrases mean. “Likes” these show people who clicked the like button on your Facebook page either via the promotion competition you are running or through connections who have shared. You should know that people who…
As telecom companies are staying relevant in their competitive market, I think farmers should do the same too. Social media keeps us connected and informed about all the different things happening around the world. Alot of information is passed on through these platforms that it would be necessary for farmers to engage with and learn…
According to data compiled in the infographic below by Alex Hillsberg at the personal finance website FinancesOnline.com it look us ladies use social media alot more than men. To me this is not a surprise, we have a lot to say and share, plus we are more than men via population levels. But we are not doing well…
I agree with this blog, Social Media is telling your friends about the different things you are doing. The different products you are experimenting on, using and about to buy. It is the cheapest advertising tool there has ever been.
“Welcome to Facebook, Signup Here,” is what welcomed me nine years ago when I was joining Facebook. I signed in as a true human being without reading the privacy policy. What I didn’t know was the amount of useful information I could get from it. Do you read privacy policies before joining social sites? Now…
Every day I engage with the internet I learn something new and valuable to my work, beliefs and social presence. I have been Social – meaning engaging with social media – for 9 years. 8 years were just for fun, making friends and penpals, sharing photos and listening to music, writing small blogs under alias…
It has been one year since I choose this path. It is not something I learnt in school, it is a career path I taught myself with guidance from people who knew what it was all about. Stephen Musoke, Michael Niyitegeka and James Makumbi I salute you. In my one year I have learnt that;…
Around this time last year, Kahill wrote a blog about what 2013 holds for Social Media Marketing in Uganda. Now as she sat there flipping through her social sites, she realised that next year is going to be a revolutionary year for social media in Uganda. Kahill has witnessed the best social media groundbreaking events in Uganda.…
It is Friday. Hmm Okay, nice. Opens laptop and looks for technology and development related News. She goes through News Republic and Feedly, ‘yeah, yeah Samsung and Apple are up against each other again. I wonder why they can’t just join arms and resources, become SamApple Inc or Corporation’ she thought. From her understanding, technologies…
using social media to over-run poverty via @skaheru