That’s been a really rewarding process... As part of the GIZ MIERA Social Media Training Project, we faced a few serious challenges after t
Take a look see - How we used WhatsApp and YouTube and Web to teach Social Media in Malawi
LOCKDOWN taught us a lot of things - to be flexible and to innovate too.
When it comes to training people in Malawi, using limited bandwidth and having to teach complicated social media tips and techniques and trends, we have to invent new ways that would work for everyone.
We managed to put a set of social media training sessions together that used screen-recordings, PDF presentations and YouTube videos that we shared via email and WhatsApp to more than 100 users in Malawi via their mobile phones.
We also hosted Q&A sessions to discuss and engage with them once they had watched the videos and went through the PDF support documents.
It was so rewarding to see and hear back from everyone - we successfully manage to train and equip more than 100 SMMEs in the Tourism and Travel and Hospitality space in Malawi. And that's how we hack technology to work for us!












