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VIRTUAL LEARNING – CAN WE ADAPT?

May 11, 2012 By 2 Comments

Every now and again I joke with my friends online or via phone texts about Virtual Hugs. Virtual has become a word that we comfortably use across media because of the fact that technology unites us from wherever we are. I remember at one point in my life having a virtual date for the news bulletins I read on radio. This person had never seen me, but liked what I wrote and got to be interested in what I do. So for a while there, they listened to me read my news bulletin, sometimes with my knowledge, sometimes with out.  And it felt great, really. So, from hugs to dates, friends and everything else that can afford to be virtual comes the virtual schools.

Virtual schools:  Is this one of those new trends that we are going to have to embrace? I ask myself.

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Twitter gets a new look

May 9, 2012 By 2 Comments

I have been on and off Twitter thanks to the very unreliable internet connection in Uganda. But also because I have had to slow down a little with the use of my PC, lest I like it get to crash. As a result, I have had to do away with the luxury or rather the mandate of having a computer screen right in front of me.

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START UP Weekend Kampala : What can we do more?

May 8, 2012 By 1 Comment

 

Some of the participants of the Start Up:

A few days ago, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts came together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups. They were given 54 hours in which they had to come up with ideas, develop them and see that they are ready for the market. It was NO TALK, ALL ACTION.

If you have no idea what this is all about; then here goes. It is called a Start Up Weekend organised by StartUp Weekend Organisation. Kampala, Uganda had its own. It started on Thursday 26th and came to an end 54 hours later Sunday 28th April 2012.

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Start Them Young

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FROM the moment I started typing stuff my future was secured. And I wasn’t satisfied having to do this on a typewriter because I knew about the computer, so I fought my way to using one whenever the opportunity presented itself.

At University I remember having an argument with a colleague over the future of the typewriter and to this day I can recall the despair I felt in the pit of my stomach over how much he believed that owning a typewriter after university was an important objective. I had been luckier – having learnt how to type proficiently in my senior four vacation, and even that after years of playing with various machines thanks to my mother’s profession.
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BranchOut could actually give LinkedIn a run for their money

April 23, 2012 By 3 Comments

YOU might be wondering what BranchOut is. Or you could be unlucky enough not to know what LinkedIn is either, in which case, I would advise you to fire your ISP. Information Services Provider, that is. The faster way to find out, anyway, is to click the two words to read the linked articles.

For all of us who use LinkedIn to expand our professional networks, there is a new kid on the block named BranchOut whose membership, we hear, now numbers over ten million registered users. For quite a few weeks in the past, I was irritated by the number of BranchOut requests I was receiving via Facebook. The best way to understand my frustration, actually, is to rewind to 2007/8.

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Digital books? That may take a while for me!

April 23, 2012 By 3 Comments

Technology is taking over.

Recently,  a group of people from church came together to do a course called Mizizi, a Swahili word for Roots. The course is based on a book. Everyone buys a copy of the book and is expected to read at least chapter everyday so that when we meet once a week, we can get to discuss what stood out for us as individuals.

Well, after the course we went through a kind of evaluation. What would we like to see change, what can be done to make the Mizizi experience better. And one of the issues that came up was: Produce or rather avail a soft copy version of the book.  [Read more...]

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