Netflix hit 50.85 million subscribers in the USA Its now bigger than cable TV in US. Leichtman Research found that the video-streaming service now has 50.85 million subscribers, while there are just 48.61 million customers reported by the top cable providers in the country. This doesn’t make it bigger than TV as a whole (the…
Verified on Twitter? Its not that serious!
Google my best search engine is at war on all fonts of its business. Earlier in October the company disappointed shareholders with underwhelming quarterly results. The amount of money it makes each time somebody clicks on an ad has steadily fallen for the past three years. Then a concern rose about the disintermediation of search by…
Communication is both an expressive, message-sending, and a receptive, message-receiving, process. Failure to communicate effectively can be due to a problem on either or both ends of the process. This is what we all aim for with all our work online. So are you tweeting enough per day that those tweets are impactful, meaningful directed…
What is a social media Policy? A social media policy is your first line of defence to mitigate risk for both employer and employee. It is something to consider that includes guidelines you need to protect yourself as a company/organisation or as a content/social media manger. Most companies add this in their confidentiality agreement to employees to cover…
‘The future of medicine is in using the available technologies to treat as many patients as a doctor can’ – The Medical Concierge Group are using that quote to better many Ugandans’ health , mainly the youth by delivering medical consultation form wherever their are using Social Media channels like Whatsapp , Facebook and twitter…
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…
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…
Am re-posting this but edited, from my Facebook notes after i promised a friend of mine, a one @Jwaninda that am to post it on Monday after @beewol had taken over the morning. I had forgotten and he sent me a tweet to remind me; I thought I would wake up to @pkahill ‘s blog mbu…
I have been to a number of these, some were informal and others were formal. Indirect ones were more of meet ups with tweeps to catch up which ended up being tweetups. Then the direct ones were actually organised by different brands, campaigns, individuals and organisations. What Are TweetUps? These are real life meetings organised…
A social media consultant is essentially the eyes, ears and voice of your company online. This means you need someone who can raise your brand awareness, deliver traffic to your website, and boost you on line while keeping your company’s reputation on top. So how do you hire the right person?=> First you find out how…
Am a tweep actually am called by my friends an addict which i will not deny, according to twitter i tweet 20 tweets per day. Not an addict as i thought i was or as people who see me think; it only 140 characters per tweet making it 2800 characters a day, like a blog per day. Any way…
Attention – I pay attention to my fans and followers on my online community, because i know these are real people. Blog – I don’t care what field you are in, you should be blogging so that you reflect your brand or organization; hence building readership among other thought leaders in your field. Community –…
So you have been posting tweets, updates about your brand and you have received some commentaries, replies, retweets but you are not sure of how many people you have reached with your posts and who were really interested in what you were saying. The formulas below can help you figure it out as a brand…
I have recently attended two events as per last weekend one was the PhatFest an event sponsored by Power Fm and the other one was The Night sponsored by Smirnoff Uganda. One was a christian concert and the other one was like a tweep up event *am not sure how to describe it*. I had…
So am sited here thinking let me brain storm about something interesting regarding my love for social media. Then it hit me Social Media is boring and its nothing new, it is just socialization with great tools to push it higher and blow it in our faces. Social media is boring because its a tool to reach,connect…
Today 5th November our dear lovely young future leaders begun their Primary Leaving Examinations to conclude the second phrase in our education system. (We have 5 levels of education in this country maybe one day I wil break them down). So as the children were busy doing their examination, a trend on twitter about the…