August 2010

E-Tourism East Africa Conference

August 31, 2010
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The E Tourism East Africa Conference will be commencing on the 2nd of September and I can’t wait. The press release sent to me partly reads: East African tourism industry stakeholders are set to benefit immensely from discourses on e tourism to be presented at a regional e tourism conference set for early next week. [...]

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Apologies to Maendeleo Speaker Series Organizers and Attendees

August 26, 2010
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Let me start by expressing my sincerest apologies to the attendees on the Maendeleo Speaker Series organized by the Bridging Staff. I was to speak there on August 25, 2010 (this past Wednesday) on How to Leverage Social Media for their Businesses. I received the invitation last month and had prepared quite the presentation for [...]

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Social Media’s Role in Zain/Safaricom War!

August 24, 2010
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It is a fact that many Kenyans are in a love-hate relationship with Safaricom, myself included. My beef with Safaricom is on so many layers but I stay because of reasons I wrote in earlier post – Safaricom is the girl you marry. But it seems that the Safaricom marriage is on the rocks. The [...]

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Will E-Commerce Take-off in Kenya

August 16, 2010
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This tweet by @gmeltdown caught my attention a fortnight ago. TEAMS, SEACOM and EASSY are great; but am not convinced we needed international bandwidth to grow e-commerce in Kenya It really got me thinking… Then that Saturday, I caught up with Joshua Mwaniki at iHub during the World Cyber Games which Kalahari had sponsored. Mwaniki [...]

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Safaricom’s New Media (Twitter) Customer Care

August 11, 2010
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If you doubt that social media has already become an indispensable tool for communication and customer care here in Kenya, Safaricom’s recent activities on twitter should convince you otherwise especially as a business owner… Their official twitter account is @SafaricomLtd. Customer care is where most companies get it wrong. Twitter and the various social networks [...]

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Financial Industry Blogging in Kenya

August 9, 2010
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I wrote on why you need a Corporate Blog but for some reason I feel the need to reiterate the point once more but with a focus on the Banking sector. Finance has always been very close to my heart. Economics was my favourite course at the University, closely rivaled by sociology. I have read [...]

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World Cyber Games Kenya – iHub

August 7, 2010
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Just made it to world cyber games here at iHub and I love the environment already. are quite a number of gamers who have made it here and I thought I’d share some pictures with you as the event moves along… Update: The games are well under way with semifinals in some like FIFA 2010 [...]

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Kenya Mainstream Media and Social Media Marriage

August 6, 2010
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For a long time, mainstream media viewed social media with skepticism as journalists took shots at bloggers for all manner of reasons. But increasingly, social media and especially blogging has already claimed its place and now Twitter (over 20 billion tweets so far) and Facebook (over 500 million users) are flexing their muscles. In Kenya, [...]

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Responsible Blogging

August 3, 2010
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Yesterday evening, I was sitting at home watching NTV where they were playing music advocating for peace especially with the referendum coming up. What caught me off-guard was just how much I still associate some of the songs with the state of mind I had during the post election violence. “Wakenya Pamoja” and “Daima Kenya” [...]

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