Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Reflections of the participants

The participants have opened their blogs this morning and made their first postings. The topic was a free reflection on what we were doing yesterday and what expectations they have for the coming week.

Here’s some links to the comments.

Bilham Kimati from Nipashe newspaper gives a nice account of yesterday’s programme. Hyasinta Timothy of the business paper Majira provides a list of some of the many websites we visited during the day.

Jiang Alipo of Daily News and Peter Edson from the newspapers Mwananchi and The Citizen explain how they wish they will use their new internet skills in their respective media houses in the future.

Gladness Munuo, gender activist and freelance journalist, suggests that similar internet training workshops should be organized also for journalists in the countryside.

Bakari Mnkondo, editor of Mzalendo newspaper, and Basil Msongo, reporter from Habari Leo, seem to be in the blogging business to stay. Bakari says that he will provide stories from the life of the people in the villages in the rural areas; Basil is introducing us to the first Tanzanian blog concentrating on stories about life experiences.

The workshop was very lively today, with many good discussions and participants sharing experiences on how their media houses are coping with different issues connected to the training – for example at what time of the day their media houses update their online content, or do they do it even during the day etc.

For today’s programme more in the participants’ blogs. I will provide links to all of them as soon as I can.

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