Archive for the ‘relevant’ tag
Workshop: Using the Internet for Social Change
Social media, social networking, crowd sourcing and websites/applications that leverage these for a cause are becoming ever so popular. How many of them actually deliver the results the project owners hoped for?
Participant's at a previous workshop
Semacraft has organized a workshop facilitated by Muchiri Nyaggah where contextually relevant & actionable skills will be learnt and practiced. Featuring local bloggers and social media personalities, the workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to learn as well as apply strategic planning skills to develop measurable plans for web strategy.
The Agenda
- The Internet Landscape (from social media to crowd sourcing and all points in between)
- Turning visitors into advocates (How to go from casual consumption to active participation)
- Understanding relational ties & why they matter. (The impact of online relationships on Causes)
- Platforms for mobilizing citizens (what is available)
- Crafting a plan (putting it all together measurably)
- Putting It All To Work
Niti Bhan of Aalto Design Factory facilitating a previous workshop.
Venue: Navigators Complex, Kindaruma road, off Ngong road, Nairobi.
Cost: KSh. 6,500.00 per person
Please click here and register and receive the workshop pack and location map.
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If you’ve been in business a while, it probably is. Otherwise you’d have folded long ago. Now your brand wants to be ‘social’ and blog, tweet and get a Facebook page or YouTube channel. This is now publishing territory. Are you publishing relevant content? Is it all about your product and your brand/business? If you consider the fact that building significant loyal traffic to a blog can take 2 years, is there enough talk about yourself to keep me reading your blog for two whole years?! Read the rest of this entry »
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I’ll put the question to you a little differently. If all your bills were paid, would you still do what you do? Would your business still go about it’s business the same way? Would you tweet the same stuff? Post the same Facebook updates? Read the rest of this entry »
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