Zimbabwe Internet entreprenuer launches website to assist orphans
Filed under: Entrepreneurship, Family, Friendship, Community, General & Common
Dec 07, 2009 – Richwell Phinias, renowned internet marketing consultant and the co-founder of Dariro.com has partnered with a number organisations in Zimbabwe in an innovative ICT project meant to give hope and support to more than 2 500 children in at least 50 orphanages in Zimbabwe starting this Christmas.
Dariro.com developed a website www.dariro.com/christmas2009 where people with access to the internet across the country and over the world are submitting profiles of orphanages which are in need of various levels of assistant in their operations.
Details on each submitted profile includes such critical areas like contact details, number of children at the centre, people involved, owners or trustees, needy areas, wishlists, projects, volunteer needs, location and any other information that could be used to find development partners. Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger Marketing…True Story
“The Arnold Schwarzenegger Marketing Lesson”
Years ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger taught me an extremely important marketing lesson… Here’s the story (true Story):
As a kid, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a Hero to me. Saving the world, killing aliens, busting the bad guys…and of course…that bike (who could forget the Terminator Bike).
I loved him so much so, that I decided, I would launch a ‘Nick Name Branding Campaign’. The goal – to get my friends to call me…
‘The Maxinator’
(You know, from Arnolds Terminator Movie?). Or even ‘Max Soutternegger’. Had a ring to it.
What followed was one of the most important marketing lessons i’ve ever learned.
Get the details here - READ MORE
If you’re trying to build a brand, then you absolutely need to do this one thing…without it - your efforts are all wasted. Check it out on the Bizsetup blog.
Now that we Exist in a Digital format
Now that we Exist in Digital format, there are a number of things we’d like to do, but ultimately they all lead to one thing- getting other people to Exist too in a Digital online format.
That is our mission. Our goal. Our reason for being. To put people online. Put businesses online. Put organisations and ideas and history and today- online.
Keep on watching.
Zim Restaurant Guide, Eatout.co.zw Implements Web Mapping Facility
Eatout.co.zw is a website where prospective restaurant clients can search for various restaurants across the country by cuisine, location or range. Restaurant owners also get to have a web presence.
Owned and run by Harvest International, the website is still in astringent testing and will be launched on the 13th of October this year.
According to the restaurant guide director Joseph Bunga, restaurant maps are made available on eatout.co.zw using google maps and GPS co-ordinates. Read more
Trevor Ncube, Media Mogul
Zimbabwean, Trevor Ncube is a one of Southern Africa’s most powerful newspaper publishers. His media empire spans Zimbabwe and South Africa where he owns newspapers, printing presses and distribution networks.. and he says he now looking to expand his business further into Africa. Trevor Ncube started working in Zimbabwean newsrooms - writing and editing - but he says he soon realised he prefered being behind the scenes.
He now owns sister publications The Independent and the Standard in Zimbabwe as well as Mail and Guardian newspaper in South Africa. A self-described idealist Ncube believes in the power of the press to change and influences societies for the good. After years of restrictive press laws and harassement of the media, he says the time is now right to launch a new daily newspaper in Zimbabwe
“In the past ten years, journalists have been seen as the enemies of the state, newspaper publishers have been hounded, foreign journalist have been hounded. This means we have existed in an environment where we were seen as a group of people to be eliminated, arrested, but still we expanded the democratic space and provided a platform where people talk to each other, where the nation looks at itself and decided which paths to follow. I’m very optimistic, about the short term,” commented Ncube.
To hear more from this African Media Baron tune into CNN’s African Voices on Saturdays at 12.30 and 21.30 GMT; Sunday August 16, 18.00 GMT
Unfair to your advantage… if you hurry
Got a Spare Cellphone Line Lying Around?
Or maybe one that isn’t currently doing anything for your business? Well - if you move fast, i’ll let you swap that cell phone line for a mini website.
Interested?
Move quick and check out this offer… It’s for a promo i’m getting ready for so, it’s just for the first 5 takers. As usual, i’ll be giving you alot more than you give me -unfair… but that’s my problem - not yours!
Here’s the link: Line For Website
On The Zimbo Jam- Zimbabwean Film Wins Zanzibar Film Festival AwardShungu, a film by renowned Zimbabwean graphic artist, Saki Mafundikwa, has won the Sembène Ousmane Award at the recently ended Zanzibar International Film Festival.
- Zimbabwe Fashion Week Revs it Up on Second DayThings picked up pace on the second day of Zimbabwe Fashion Week, Thursday July 29, with four young designers showcasing their work. A show scheduled for the afternoon was cancelled so that a bigger show, featuring more designers could be held in the evening.
- The 5 Corniest Things Guys Have Ever Said to MeStarting this week The Zimbo Jam brings you "Teurai's Lists", a weekly column by Australian based Zimbabwean model Teurai Chanakira. Teurai will bring you lists of things that we all relate to as Zimbos, lists that will make you think, lists that will make you laugh and lists that will remind you that life is one long, er, list.
- Zimbabwean Film Wins Zanzibar Film Festival Award