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E-Tourism East Africa Conference

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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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Facebook Fanpages over Groups: Kenya

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Prologue: The Kenyan Facebook scene is notorious for Groups and not Fanpages. @Wamathai asked me on Twitter which between a Facebook Fanpage and a Group is better. Without stating the pros and cons of each, I replied with Fanpage. In all honesty, there was nothing to think about, it was an open and shut case [...]

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Twitter for Kenyan Businesses

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I am in the process of compiling a list of Kenyans businesses currently on Twitter. But prior to publishing that post, I thought it prudent to write a post on how Kenyan businesses can use Twitter in their businesses. Twitter as you may well know by now is a real-time micro-blogging social networking platform that [...]

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The Democracy of Social Media

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For a long while, the basis on which someone was tagged an authority in a given field was largely dictated by the mainstream media. This to a large extent is still true given my own euphoria over being largely quoted in the Business Daily. “(S)he even appeared in the paper/TV” has been a line repeated [...]

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Foursquare for Kenyan Businesses

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While I was researching on this topic, I Googled ‘Foursquare in Kenya” and the top ranking result was “Foursquare Church of Kenya”, I swear. I immediately posted it on Twitter and it got a couple of LMAOs and WTFs. But whether you find this funny or strange or both, it’s a telling finding because other [...]

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Social Media Phobia

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Are you familiar with those kids shoes that honk when they walk. Most Kids love them precisely because of the noise they produce when walking. Just the other day, I walked past this tiny kid who was walking as if her sole intention was to make as much noise as possible from her shoes. She [...]

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The Tandaa Symposium on Film and Animation – Overview

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The Tandaa Symposium on Film and Animation took place on 6th May 2010 at the Kenyan National Museum – Louis Leaky Auditorium and it was a great event for those who attended. For those who could not make it, the following is an overview of what took place… I got to the Tandaa Symposium a [...]

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Your Network is your Net Worth – Social Networking

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I think I read this line on a blog or in my twitter feed. It caught my eye because it is a powerful statement that brings into focus why we need to have social networks and better yet how to utilize these networks for our respective businesses. There are many platforms that fall within the [...]

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Kenya Shifting towards Digital Marketing

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Lately and you can bare me witness, digital marketing in its many forms and shapes is more and more becoming the focal point by those in the know. Print media and traditional advertisement avenues are slowly dying and its victims are trying to remain relevant hence their rebirths in digital form online. The only way [...]

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