January 2011

Turning Politics on its Head towards 2012

January 25, 2011
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A while back, a friend (Mikul) mentioned to me the possibility of having all people vying to be members of parliament in an online database of sorts through which Kenyans could, media, and International Media could monitor the happenings in Kenyan Politics on a county by county or constituency by constituency basis. This idea really [...]

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Social Media uptake by Kenyan Journalists

January 24, 2011
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If there is one tweet that made my day this year, it is the one by Jeff Koinange where he tweeted that “This Titter Stuff is DaBomb.” During an interview with one of my favourite Kenyans, Mutahi Ngunyi, I wondered why Jeff did not have a twitter account yet he is one of the most [...]

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Kenyan Companies need Brand Advocates

January 11, 2011
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Every time I have a bone to pick with a company, I sometimes get one person who will disagree with me and tell me that this company is not that bad; that I must have caught them at a bad time or talked to the wrong person. Sometimes, in an attempt to show me that [...]

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Social Media Monitoring

January 7, 2011
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I got to see what’s up before it gets me down is a line in a song by Common in his Finding Forever album. When you look at most of the online crises that got the better of the companies involved, the common denominator is that they were caught unawares. Getting caught with your pants [...]

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Horrid Adverts on Kenyan TV

January 6, 2011
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The worst part about Kenyan TV programming which is now overrun by soap after soap after freaking soap are the frequent adverts that are just as great an eyesore as the soaps. And frankly, the scripts may actually be written by the same person. While the soaps have too much crying in them, the adverts [...]

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