If you are serious about taking your online visibility to the next level and feel like a “newbie” or a “skeptic” when blogging/blogs are mentioned; then BlogCamp 2012 is your ideal event. The 21st century has become synonymous with social networking of which blogging plays a major role. Blogging has become a mainstream form of self-expression today. It is also a great way for businesses and brands to get their message out to their customers. When it comes to building [...]
Categories: Accra, Blogging, Conferences, Ghana, Social Media
Ghanaians go to the polls in December 2012 to vote in the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections to either elect a new President or maintain the current government. In other to help streamline the voter registration process, the country is now implementing its first-ever biometric voter registration — in other words, using fingerprint technology to help verify identity. Ghanaian Bloggers and Social Media Activists are also using social media to publicize the process, correct misconceptions and increase overall attention about the [...]
Categories: Elections, Featured, Ghana, Politics, Social Media
On Facebook and Twitter news spreads really fast. Social Media has literally changed the way that news is shared and reported. So, which Organization are the most viral sources of information?. Newswhip has examined the sources of breaking news stories that received more than 100 mentions on Twitter and 100 Likes on Facebook in January. On Twitter BBC was at the top spot and a clear winner, with some 2,621 stories qualifying under the Newswhip criteria, ahead of The Guardian and Mashable. On Facebook The Huffington Post [...]
Categories: Blogging, Featured, Journalism, Report, Social Media, Technology
In a recent market survey complied by Website-Monitoring.com, a few key trends about Google+user demographics were revealed. The most eye-opening stat: 67% of all users were male. The company believes the fact that Google+ is closely integrated with other Google products popular with young men, namely Android and Gmail, make it appealing to the men. This of course is the exact opposite of most social media networking sites. Women hold the slight majority of users on Twitter, a 55% majority on Facebook, and a [...]
Categories: Mobile Technology, Report, Social Media, Technology
Yesterday during lunch at the Pizza Inn on the Ngong Road by the Uchumi Supermarket, the question about the number of Ghanaians on Facebook came up again after it was reported that, Ghana is the least country that uses the micro-blogging platform – Twitter.
Categories: Mobile Technology, Social Media, Technology
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: Featured, Mobile Technology, 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
Londoners woke up to one of the disturbing scenes of total lawlessness and violence experienced in decades. “Senior officers say the violence and looting on Monday night was the worst in living memory; eclipsing the 1980s inner city riots in Toxteth, Brixton and Tottenham at the height of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership” (The Guardian). A lot have been written on what went on and perhaps what is still going on so no need over elaborating here. These events in the past [...]
Categories: Social Media, Technology
Whiles in Johannesburg, South Africa; Live-blogging from the “Sub-Saharan Africa Freedom of Expression & Internet Workshop”; a colleague whom I’ve known for a long time, joined twitter not long ago and I’m sorry to say; not too ICT-inclined sent me a message on Facebook asking; What are those stuffs you keep saying on Twitter? What is RT? Where do you get your links from? Do you have any special protocols that you use? Is this very difficult to do? How [...]
Categories: Blogging, Events, Random Thoughts, 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, Random Thoughts, Social Media
I’ve always been longing to tweet with Google’s URL Shortener Service; http://goo.gl when it was last launched a couple of months ago. I’ve seen one of my favorite ICT4D Tweep & follower; @Wayan_Vota use it a couple of times and I guess, he’s still using it. Woke up this morning and decided to try it out once again. Lo and behold; it’s working from Ghana now. Guess, it is now opened to the general public. About Goo.gl The [...]
Categories: Ghana, Random Thoughts
This morning, I woke up to see a tweet from Kojo Baffoe requesting for bloggers, writers & interesting people he could follow on Twitter. As I sat on the edge of my bed reading his tweet, I quickly replied him; by promising to compile a list of followers worth following. As you all know, there are a lot of people on twitter these days. From the likes of US President Barack Obama, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, CEO of Microsoft Bill [...]
