Today I didn’t participate in the speed speaking sessions. And I sat through Mike Stopforth’s quick demo of the software he uses to make his blogging experience more integrated and easier to manage and publicise. Emeke Okafor and I conducted the monetising blog workshop. I gave an overview of the specifics of Google AdSense, how…
The business and marketing panel was where I got my chance to do a presentation on blog marketing. Well, before we get into the details, I want to tell you about Alec Hogg. The Moneyweb founder had some very potent things to say to the audience. And it was about time. The activism and the…
The activism session started on an okay foot with Ethan Zuckerman, hosting the panel discussion. Next to him were two leading online political activists: Alaa Abd El Fattah, the Egyptian blogger who has been jailed for his activism and Ory Okolloh from the Kenyan Pundit blog. Ory’s session was to the point and highlights the…
The 2nd day of the Blogging Indaba opened with a cracker session, We The Media, featuring some heavy hitters like Matt Buckland, publisher of the Mail & Guardian online; Tom Johnson, professor emeritus of journalism at San Francisco State University and co-founder of the Institute for Analytic Journalism; and Peter Verweij, senior lecturer at the…
The conference has been a long time coming. And being a blogger myself, I just had to attend. Because it is such an excellent niche topic, “blogging”, this conference will grow in popularity in the coming years. I applaud the people from New Media Lab @ Rhodes University’s School of Journalism & Media Studies who…