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Arranged Meetings in Social Networking Sites

Here is a set of actions that any person on any social network follows through, whether consciously or out of a habit:

  1. Login into the site
  2. Check out whether any friend/follower is logged in at the same time. (The user will not nudge the friend/follower into a conversation at this stage since they are clueless on what they will say)
  3. Check out notifications and messages in the mailbox. If there is nothing, stage 4 kicks in,
  4. Browse through the most recent comments from friends/followers so as to get some "seed" for a conversation,
  5. If there are no noteworhty comments, the user will then browse for something notable from persons without his/her friends network. This is so as to get something to talk about. Once they get it then,
  6. They can nudge that friend into engaging in a conversation.
It is mostly at stage 5 where many identify persons who they can turn into friends or follow. Now let's say that you have time limits or little money and you want to meet with that friend. The truth is that it would be very frustating, once you have got into the site, to see that your friend is not in  at the same time. And after sifting through the site for other people to talk with, you can end up wasting some precious time and money. What if we practiced ...


Arranged Meetings

How would that turn out to be? What if we arranged with some of our friends to meet at the same time on a particular social network? Wouldn't that be cost-effective in some way? Wouldn't it give a meaning to the word "virtual conversations"? This would be highly appropriate for chat sessions and...


Microblogging Sites

Since the microblogging concept is built on the notion of encouraging people to send out short messages to each other thus encouraging conversations, arranged meetings are workable. Additionally, with the argument that the microblogging concept is a likely alternative to E-mail, arranged meetings can allow the dispatching of private, direct messages on a real-time basis.


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2 More Tips on starting a microblogging service in Africa

This article on tips on how to start up a microblogging service in Africa is heavily biased to the technical end of a microblogging service. However, the arguments contained here that:

  1. Microblogging sites in Africa should put much more emphasis on integration with the SMS service and,
  2. the stripping down of  service overheads and,
  3. (some how) recommending efficient clients for African microblogging sites,
are good.
Now let's add some 2 more tips:


1.User Experience

Initiators or entrepernuers behind these sites should offer a service that is user-friendly i.e.:
  1. Make the site easy to access and use
  2. Primp the site to have a simple look/appearance.
  3. Provide much more character count per post: Africans like talking.


2.Listening


Many a microblogging service have found it hard on African terrain with some eventually dieing out after a short time of existence. To prevent this, the backers of microblogging sites should be good at listening be it:
  1. the few people using their service i.e feedback from users.
  2. trends in the social media world
  3. to people without the service e.g African bloggers, review sites etc.


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4 Resources for how to write good tweets/notices/shouts

While microblogging offers a faster way of communicating with others, it also requires that the blogger (if we can call him/her that way) to be adept at managing online relationships. This requires that the blogger to:

  1. be good at listening and,
  2. be empathetic at best.
There are a few resources from which one can learn how to write/post good tweets/shouts/notices on any microblogging service.


1.Twitter


Twitter is the most popular microblogging service currently. It allows its users to send messages called "tweets" top other users of up to 140 characters. The beauty of Twitter is that well known personalities and corporations are on board. That can be quite suitable for anyone to learn about good tweeting. For example, using Google one can search for the most popular blogger in a particular niche then search for their Twitter profile. With that one can get to glean some lessons on how to post good tweets from that particular blogger.Note also that some Twitter users do protect their tweets; so that requires you to sign up to the service and request to follow them so as to get to see how they tweet.For business persons, searching for the Twitter profiles of their competitors or industry leaders can teach them on how to use Twitter for business.

Another reason on Twitter is the "Trending Topics" section. Searching for what is trending on the site then zeroing down the search to a particular profile whose tweets seem credible, a new user can get a role model to emulate. Note that the trending topics may contain a lot of noise in the form of tweets with the trending word nested between hashtagged words making up the posts.


2.Identi.ca

Identica is another microblogging service just like Twitter. However, one main difference between it and Twitter is that all posts, called notices, are open to the public. That is an added advantage since one can see how they go about creating conversations. The "Public Timeline" section can be a big eye opener to anyone who is new to microblogging. One, anyone can get to see who are the most frequent users of the site and, two, the quality of their notices.


3. Google Searching


You can scour through the Internet for guides, websites and ebooks on "How to write good tweets".


4.Dirty your hands

It is said that "Practice, practice makes perfect". Get your hands dirty by creating an account on any of the microblogging services and learn from experience. As you review your mistakes and also emulate some good Tweeple around, the quality of your posts will improve. So get on with it today.


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Welcome to Kenya Microblogging Sites

This site lists the microblogs fronted by Kenya Microblogging Sites. Please visit the "About Us" page for more information.


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