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[News Flash] BuzzCity Replies Tekedia – Provides Answers To Our Questions

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Our best post, in terms of traffic, last week came from our prediction that CallCamp will win Garage48 Lagos, more than  12 hours before the final event. It happened and many provided feedback. That gave us the highest pageview. Second to that was an article on Nigeria and game downloads – courtesy of Buzz City report. 

When we got BuzzCity report, we studied every aspect of it. We must appreciate the efforts they put in it because our parent company had been working for a partnership with an Indian company. The numbers they had there came naturally. However, there were some things we could not understand. We just asked questions.

Today, we are happy to inform thousands of our readers that through BuzzCity PR agency, BuzzCity is providing answers.

Hi there. We represent BuzzCity as their PR agency. Buzzcity would like to respond to the analysis that appears on the tekedia site – https://www.tekedia.com/?p=4473 . I have attached their response. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

The feedback, from BuzzCity, communicated via ChannelPR is attached.

 The key point is this: We are definitely not biased towards Nigeria in our insights, our findings just reveal that Nigeria is growing faster than South Africa and Kenya at the moment.

Garage48 Lagos Over, Now Garage48 Accra

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It began with this post by Garage48, on its plan to be in Africa

 

For the first time in its existence, the Garage48 event series is coming to Lagos. Together with two world companies, Google and Nokia, it will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May 2011 at the Lagos Resource Centre, Victoria Island. Originally developed in Europe, Estonia and expanded to other countries, the purpose of the event is to build new web and mobile services in one single weekend – 48 hours.

 

Lagos is done! Remarkably fine, indeed. The next stop is Accra Ghana. And here is it.

 

Together with Google and Nokia another event of Garage48 will be launched in Ghana on the 13th of May. Garage48 Accra is second in Africa, following the Nigeria’s gathering, which was sold out in just 4 days. Extreme developing weekend for local technology professionals, entrepreneurs and marketers will take place at Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT.

 

For more information:
http://www.garage48.org/accra

Ragnar Sass
Garage48 Africa project manager
ragnar@garage48.org

 

Jojoo Imbeah
Garage48 Accra organizer
accra@garage48.org

 

Accra, Ghana in May 13-15

The Lessons of Garage48 Lagos – Evaluation Toolkit of Ideas

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Garage48 Lagos is past tense and CallCamp has won. Congratulations to the team. As we round up this experience and exercise, we refer you to this nice post by Tarmo Tali.  If you follow these ideas, you can take out the noise in your vision.

 

Step 1. – Search for existing solution 

Step 2. – Is your idea clear?

Step 3. – Who are your users and what is your offering?

Step 4. – Stay out of jail.

Step 5. – Does it matter?

Step 6. – Who is your team?

Step 7. – Value is more important than money.

Step 8. – Stand on the shoulders of the giants. 

Step 9. – How you boot and sustain?

Step 10. – Learn from history.

When U.S. State Dept Funds Social Media Dissidents – Can It Work in Cameroon?

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We read this story from Businessweek and were taken aback that it could publish this. What is the motivation of exposing the obvious that most of the social media driven activism are sponsored by the US. We think this kid of activity should be  covet and not trumpeted on the pages of a respected magazine.

 

Antigovernment protesters in Syria have a hard time reaching the outside world, since the government selectively blocks cell-phone coverage in protest areas, and most use a slow dial-up Internet connection. Some of them rely on a contact overseas. The Syrian, who has seen the inside of prisons before and asked that his name not be printed, receives video files from activists in Daraa. The Syrian helps format the videos and posts them to YouTube. He’s exactly the kind of person the State Dept. would like to help right now: a pro-reform dissident, enabling others to get their story out through the Internet.

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According to Posner, State has already held training sessions for 5,000 digital activists around the world, including one in February in Beirut that brought together participants from Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria. The sessions, quietly run by local organizations, teach participants which websites and technologies are most vulnerable to government monitoring—and which government-seeded rumors about technology are false. Daniel B. Baer, the deputy assistant secretary in the democracy bureau, says that in one country,

 

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The agency has already awarded about $22 million in Internet freedom grants and plans to raise the total to $50 million by the summer.

 

Very interesting! Where is this money in Africa and where do they advertise them? We have one question: can this strategy work in Cameroon and get Paul Biya out of power?  Let the money come because Mr. Biya has spent his welcome!

Corporate Social Media Solutions – Where Employees Do Facebook and Twitter

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In case you are planning of buying a social media solution to enable your staff do Facebook and Twitter in your company, we have got three good companies for you to consider. Here are the companies:

 

Chatter from Salesforce

 

The best way to collaborate at work

  • Collaborate privately and securely
  • Follow people, information, and groups
  • Share files and status updates

Work more efficiently and closely with your colleagues on your own private and secure social network — Chatter. Where updates on the people, projects, and data that matter most are automatically pushed to you.

 

Yammer

The Enterprise Social Network

Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, it is enterprise-class software built from the ground up to drive business objectives.

 

Yammer is free for your whole company, enabling users to communicate, collaborate, and share more easily and efficiently than ever before. It reduces the need for meetings, increases communication across silos, surfaces pockets of expertise and connects remote workers.

 

IBM Connections

 

If you could have experts at your fingertips, build vibrant customer communities and instantly engage creative ideas to your biggest challenges, there’s no telling what you could do.

Designed with a Social Business in mind, IBM Connections gives you fast access to everyone in your professional network – your colleagues, customers and partners. The latest capabilities in IBM Connections such as Moderation, Ideation Blogs, and the Media Gallery, enable you to embrace networks of people who are engaged and work in transparent and nimble ways to create business value.

 

Our Choice – Yammer. The major reason is that it is FREE.

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