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Nico Baird

I READ an article about how social networks like Myspace.com and Facebook.com are experiencing a slowdown of new subscribers. The article asks the question if this is the end of social networks.

I honestly don’t think so. I have always believed that certain social networks have only a limited lifespan. As new innovation in online social networking evolve people and groups of people tend to migrate across various social networks.

One such social network that will hit South Africa very soon is Twitter.com. The pace of our lives are increasing and we do not always have time to blog the events in our lives. Facebook made it possible to quickly update your status and tell your friends what you have been up to. But often people only logged into their Facebook account to set their status and to see the status of their friends.

The main aim of Twitter is to update your status and inform your friends. This update is the length of an SMS and you only get 140 characters to tell your friends what you are up to.

When you go to Twitter.com you can quickly and easily set up your free account.

You search the network for your friends and link to them. When you select friends to follow they receive a message stating that you are now following them, they can then decide if they would like to follow you back.

In South Africa Twitter is big in the tech community, but it is growing quickly. I predict that in a few months you will find articles in all the local papers talking about Twitter and how popular it has become.

When you go and join Twitter remember to add me as a friend.

Twitter will also be quite prominent at PodcampSA this year.

Remember to sign-up for PodcampSA at www.podcampsa.com.

Nico Baird

ELKE week kry ek e-posse van mense wat vra wat die beste manier sal wees vir hulle om hul eie webblad en webadres te besit.

Onkunde is dikwels ’n slaggat en dit is belangrik vir mense om te weet presies wat die stappe is om te volg.
Met die hoë pryse wat ons in Suid-Afrika betaal vir bandwydte en toegang tot die internet, is dit belangrik om te weet dat daar goedkoper opsies is.

Dit is ook baie maklik om ’n groot deel van die werk self te doen en dan honderde selfs duisende rande te spaar.
Dit is werklik nie so moeilik as jy net die basiese stappe volg nie.

Indien jy natuurlik ’n unieke blad wil skep, is dit nodig om programmeerders en ontwerpers se kundigheid in te roep, maar indien jy die basiese werk klaar gedoen het, sal jy baie kan spaar. Met 2010 wat al hoe nader kom, is dit belangrik vir elke onderneming om sy ruimte op die web te hê. Vir individue is dit belangrik om by die res van die wêreld op die web aan te sluit met jou eie webtuiste.

Dit is ook belangrik om jou naam op die web te besit.In ’n vorige rubriek het ek genoem dat Amerikaners selfs nou eers kyk of ’n naam beskikbaar is op die web voordat hulle hul kinders name gee.Dit klink snaaks, maar dit is deesdae belangrik om jou identiteit op die web te besit.

Ek bied op 9 April ’n werksessie aan om jou deur hierdie stappe te help sodat jy ook jou eie webblad maklik op die web kan skep.
Ek sal ook belangrike wenke met jou deel om jou op soek­enjins soos Google te lys.

Indien jy belang stel om hierdie oggend by te woon gaan na www.dreamagineers.com vir meer inligting of om te registreer.

ANOTHER first for Bloemfontein will soon be happening in the city.

PodCamp SA, the first of its kind ever to be presented in Bloemfontein, will take the new media world by storm on 19 April.
“We are very excited about PodCamp SA and it is something that few people have experienced before,” says Mr Nico Baird, director of Dreamagineers and organiser of this unconference.

“A podcamp is an unconference. If all this makes your head explode, do not worry, it is very simple.
An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants (generally day-by-day during the course of the event) rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event.

A   podcamp is always free to attend and anyone interested in new media is invited to attend. This includes bloggers, podcasters, artists, educators, students, learners, reporters and many more.
“If you are interested in new media, you need to attend,” says Baird.

According to him, some of the biggest names in the industry like Glen Verran from The ZAShow, Dave Duarte from www.daveduarte.com and Maximillan Kaizen from maxkaizen.com have registered for PodcampSA. Kaizen and Duarte started the very popular website Huddlemind.netBaird says that contrary to popular belief, a PodCamp is not just about podcasting.

“If you are interested in blogging,   social   media,   social   networking, podcasting, video on the net, if you are a PodSafe musician (or want to be), or just someone curious about new media, then please join us - and why not bring a friend or colleague?

“There are also still numerous sponsorship   opportunities available   for   companies to help   make   this   the   best   podcamp ever and to show the world that Bloemfontein is the ideal place for such a huge event,” he says.

Anyone   who   would   like to become involved in PodcampSA or who wants more information about the event, can contact Baird on nico@clicksa.co.za

If you want to register, go to www.podcampsa.com