I did a press release about ZiReport and sent it out to IT News and BizCommunity.com.
If you have an online venture, you’ll find it worth your while to do regular press releases and send them out to different publications and online services. It’s free marketing and it will reach some people you would have [...]

Hey, I told you guys a few days ago about Ning. I’ve tried setting up a few networks and I must reiterate that this is a whole new level of web interaction. Way to go Marc and company!
I’ll tell you more about my Ning edeavours soon !

We’ve all heard of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Hi5. Through these social networking websites we can connect with old friends, share photos, send messages and keep up to date with events in the lives of those most dear to us wherever they are in the world.
Ning (and a slew of other similar services on the [...]

Yesterday I signed up for Technorati and subsribed fungaijames.com/bloggen onto there. Today I added zireport.com.
If you have a blog I HIGLHY recommend that you get it listed on Technorati. These guys are THE definitive blog listing service in the known universe. There are millions of other blogs listed there and it’s a great way to [...]

With so many affiliate programmes out there it’s sometimes a mission just to decide which one to sign up to. Setting up an account for each programme you sign up to is such a chore and if you want to try out a number before you settle, you’ll end up with a lot of accounts [...]

Sometime last year I downloaded an open source content managment system (CMS) called Moodle. Actually it’s more than just a content management system. It’s a specialised CMS called a course management system (also abbreviated CMS).
Then a few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to help him set up some new features for his [...]

Do you meet these two criteria:

You run a blog
You are an African or your blog is about an African related issue

If your answer is yes to both of the above then you’ll find Afrigator to be a useful service. It’s a social media aggregator, meaning it brings together content from various social media (blogs, online [...]

The 2008 Edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts starts (HIFA) on Tuesday (29th April). This is the first time in five years that I am not doing anything for the HIFA website and I am looking forward to seeing the online interpretation of the festival this year.

Through a post by Victor Mavedzenge on Facebook, I came across this interesting site: Associated Content.
It’s an open content platform that enables you to contribute articles on any topic and earn money depending on how many times they are read. For every 1000 reads you get US$1.50.
They accept articles (on any topic), short stories, poetry, [...]

I have been working on this site since 1999. It’s been worked, reworked and reworked. It has taken many forms and thrusts in its gestation. It was initially pure html, then it became PHPNuke, then Mambo. In January the blog- which took less than a month to build- went up. Well, the pregnancy is finally [...]