Most people these days think the social networking tool – Twitter is an American or European phenomenon, but you’ll be surprised how heavily it is been used on the African continent based on research findings by Portland Communications and Tweetminster from the last three (October, November & December) months of 2011. Twitter map: how Africa tweets Young people tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa. This pan-African analysis of Twitter traffic was complemented by a [...]
Categories: Mobile Technology, Social Media, Technology
From 28th – 30th Oct, 2011 I shall be working together with Magnus Gameli Adzaho & Jo Webber on the Kuyu Digital Project; a digital literacy program introducing a group of high school students in Keta Secondary School and other surrounding schools in the Anlo District to: Basic Information & Communication Technology Skills (ICT4D) Emailing & Social Networking Engaging in Social Media positively and Video Reporting (Citizen Journalism) The key to successful implementation of digital technology in our society and [...]
Categories: Social Media, Technology
As an avid TweetDeck user, I have always wanted to share links from my blog-posts and other interesting articles on Social Media, ICT4D, African Tech, Mobile Entrepreneurship, Gender Issues and Photography with Google’s URL Shortener; Goo.gl After much digging and research, I came across a link/API which shortens all links in TweetDeck using goo.gl. Please find more details below: Start your TweetDeck client Go to TweetDeck “Settings” by clicking wrench icon in the top right corner Select the tab “Services” [...]
Categories: Social Media, Technology
This tweet below from one of the organizers of the Festival of Ideas conference got me very inspired to write this blog-post about the award recipients who happen to be young and energetic change-makers from Ghana in my Social Circle. Yesterday, I virtually joined and participated in Day 2 of the #FestivalofIdeas event from Takoradi which took place at the Accra International Conference Center. If you follow this hash-tag; #FestivalofIdeas, you’ll definitely come across a couple of tweets and re-tweets [...]
Categories: Events, Ghana, Social Issues, Social Media, Technology
The past couple of months saw several technology focused events happening in the capital of Ghana, Accra. Most recent was the Innovation Week 2011 [iWeek 2011] which again offered me the opportunity to show-case my Social Media know-how to participants and other technocrats who attended. Just yesterday; I heard about Garage48; an event started in Estonia in April 2010 that have expanded to other countries in Northern Europe and Africa. All Garage48 events are held in English and have about [...]
Categories: Accra, African Music & Fashion, Events, Ghana, Opportunities/Fundings/Events
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2010. That’s about 16 full 747s. In 2010, there were 51 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 158 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 22mb. That’s about [...]
Categories: Blogging, Events, Ghana, Random Thoughts
Gradually, Ghanaian bloggers and free-lance journalists in Ghana are getting the necessary attention and recognition they deserve to keep on impacting their communities positively and also creating awareness about social issues that needs to be discussed and addressed. I was very glad (and a bit nervous) when Stephen Anti formerly of Joy 99.7 FM and now with the US Embassy in Accra extended an invitation to attend and also be a panelist on a round-table discussion on the topic: “Internet [...]
Categories: Blogging, Events, Social Media
A heated argument ensured between my very good friend;MudalawGH yesterday on the number of Ghanaians on the Social Media site; Facebook. I quoted about 500,000 and he disputed the fact that, it’s not possible. Research: In trying to feed my inquiring minds; I chanced upon CheckFacebook.com which provided the needed data for this post. CheckFacebook.com is not affiliated with Facebook in anyway. It’s a platform that is able track data reported from Facebook’s advertising tool to help marketers and researchers [...]
Categories: Blogging, Ghana, Social Media
Image via CrunchBase How many times have you come across these buzzwords; “influence and social currency” in your daily digest of blog posts, articles, and tweets? What do these terms mean? I use Klout to track and measure my influence on the internet. I believe you have a question for me at this point which would be; What is Klout? Klout is a tool that measures social influence across the web. The higher the Klout score, the higher the social [...]
Categories: Blogging, Geeky + Tech, Random Thoughts, Social Media
Growing up in a small trading-town of Keta in the Volta Region, my grand-mother; Madam Doris Degadjor-Deha; a Cereal/Grains Seller in the Keta Market paid so much attention to Education as the only key to eradicating poverty in our family. Back in the day, she always makes me write letters to my father by normal dictation of whatever she wants to say and I also try as much as possible to express them on the foolscap sheet from my notebooks…! [...]
On July 23, 2009; I did a blog-post [My Love for Facebook Is Decreasing; I'm Twit-ter-ing NOW] on my new found social media platform; Twitter and how it’s positively influencing my social life. Just this morning, I caught a post on my tweet radar on; “Making the most of Twitter”. Back to page #1. What is Twitter? Laura-Jane Rich a freelance TV presenter with many hours of live experience, specialising in technology & music describes Twitter as; “a micro-blog, or [...]
Categories: Blogging, Geeky + Tech, Ghana, Random Thoughts
