Media training

My name is Graham Holliday I am a media trainer, blogger and a journalist and these are interesting links and useful tools related to my media training workshops.

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Apart from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace a multitude of other social networks are growing in popularity and have the potential to draw new users online. African social networks popular in africa...

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“We are in the middle of a series of experiments to try and figure out how to enable people to discover what they need to know without asking. Our whole goal is about telling people what is happening...

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“It has changed the culture of our company,” Roberts said. Comcast has for a while now been using Twitter to scan for complaints and engage with customers. The idea was not his, but rather rose...

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Another "share videos on Twitter" thing to look at.

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One of the quickest to reveal the full story was a 34-year old human rights activist, Richard Wilson. He was baking a banana cake in his kitchen in London when he first found out about the gag on the...

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The print edition

This post got me thinkingI'm about to start training 5-8 journalists here in Kigali, Rwanda in short 3

week bursts. At the end of the 3 weeks, they are supposed to have

produced an original feature - whether it be in print, online, audio,

photographic or video - and it is also supposed to be of good enough

quality to sell or at least publish somewhere. So, how about doing

that through the newspaperclub and arranging delivery to

Kigali? Or picking the printed editions up in London when I'm back for

work - probably every 2 or 3 months.I dunno if it'd work

financially, but I think it might work funnuncially - a lot of

fununcian, a good looking "product" and an inspiration. Something folk

can sit around with and talk about and maybe even read.I

think this might be a goer. Will look into it more.

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Joseph Sebarenzi on Rwandan history, the present and the future

Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament and author of God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation, gives a history lesson on Rwanda and some thoughts on the future in the Huffington Post, "The four-year war that followed culminated in the horror of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Out of this chaos, Major General Paul Kagame, who led the Tutsi rebellion, emerged as the victor and hero who stopped the evil. Emboldened with this historic achievement, Kagame slowly and surely set on a path in the footsteps of his predecessors. Like Kayibanda and Habyarimana, he worked tirelessly to attract foreign assistance, to maintain strong order and security, and to grow the economy. Once again Rwanda is hailed as the Switzerland of Africa. At the same time, however, Kagame, like his predecessors, has ignored the importance of building rule of law and promoting political reconciliation." From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/BvOG9

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BBC World Service on forgetting the genocide

Rwanda is hoping to build a future as a hi-tech economy. But it faces another struggle - to move on from the ethnic divisions which led to civil war and genocide in the 1990s - as Madeleine Morris found on a recent trip to the country to make a programme for the BBC's World Service. From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/WZXPt

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Kabuga "not in Kenya"

Rwanda and the international community searching for Genocide fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, might have to look elsewhere because Rwanda's genocide mastermind is not in Kenya, the east African nation's Attorney General Amos Wako has said. Wako, who was in Kigali to sign the extradition treaty between Kenya and Rwanda, told reporters that the search for Kabuga has only focused on Kenya which may have paved way for the high profile suspect to escape to other countries. From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/1ct0qO

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Now the wet season is here, Kigali braces for El Nino

Kigali City Council (KCC) has started preparing for possible El Nino rains by drawing contingency plans to contain the situation should heavy rains fall. Rwanda is likely to receive heavy rains during the wet season that starts this month. The anticipated seasonal rains are driven by the presence of an evolving El Nino. From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/41b9Qh

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WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet.

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FDLR control mines in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) control mines in the Ruvingi region of eastern DR Congo's Nord-Kivu province, the UN military spokesman said Wednesday. "The FDLR continue to remain present in the mining region of Ruvungi about 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Walikale," Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich of the UN mission in DRC (MONUC) told a news briefing. "They control the mines," he added. The Rwandan rebels "use uniforms of (the Congolese) army to conceal their identity during their operations," Dietrich said, adding that the renegades were "well armed and possess satellite phones." From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/aMXwU

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More than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda

AFP reports more than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda Several hundred Rwandans have fled from the south of the country into neighbouring Burundi, Burundian local officials said Wednesday. "More than 300 Rwandan Hutus have fled the southern province and have taken refuge in Bugabira and Ntega in Kirundo province," said a local official who asked not to be named. "These people keep arriving every day in small groups and they are staying with local people," the same source told AFP. Kirundo Governor Juvenal Muvunyi confirmed the news. "These Rwandan Hutus say they are fleeing Rwanda because they are afraid... They say that at night people are abducted from the hills where they live then are killed and thrown into the Kanyaru river" on the Rwanda-Burundi border, he said. "For their part the Rwandan authorities say these people are fleeing the gacaca courts," he added. From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/V7VfO

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The kigaliwire site is just about ready. Here's an early screenshot.

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"Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential growth. Inspired by other cool real time counters, my own Rise of SM presentations,...