New photo sharing site for Nairobi party people

The new photo sharing service, Rumbaa, launched last Friday at the GP-Karting grounds sandwiched between the Carnivore restaurant and the Wilson Airport in Nairobi. The service borrows a leaf from the South African service Thunda.
A bunch of guys called RumbaaDudes drive around in a pimped-ip Hummer taking professional photos at parties and clubs. The photographs [...]

Banner advertising still a big challenge for ‘major’ Kenyan online media houses

I enjoy reading the Business Daily newspaper online, though I can’t help but wonder why the banner ads either look awful or expired. Here’s an example of what you should not do! The Banner ad appears today yet the event it advertises happened a month ago. Is the client still paying for this?

Gichugu MP, Martha Karua’s use of social media puts her in good stead.

 

Martha Karua, not necessarily known for innovation and tech savviness has embraced Facebook as a platform to engage with her fans. The current discussion topic is……… and she has over 8,900 fans. Not bad. This puts her in the same league os Obama whose use of social media like Facebook made him quickly popular with [...]

The Daily Nation followers on Twitter hit 335 (only)

 

It’s a start. But the figure is way low considering there are banner ads on the Daily Nation asking people to follow them on Twitter. Is this to say out of the 24 million Twitter users, there’s only 335 that are interested in Kenyan news?
I learnt about the Kenyan MP carjacking incident on the Daily [...]

Are you a jobless Kenyan graduate? Try this.

Fewer college grads have jobs than at any other time in recent memory—a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual student survey said that 20 percent of 2009 college graduates who applied for a job actually have one. So, what should the unfortunate 80% do?
How about a post-graduate year doing some [...]

Kilimanjaro at 19,000 feet

 
 
On the cool morning of May 13, my colleague, GIlbert Ouko and I took off from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi for Kilimanjaro, Tanzania aboard a Precision Air plane. Everything was routine and smooth. No glamour. No frills. Everything was basic. Like a matatu ride to Nyeri. The only excitement was having to [...]