Comparison 2008 and 2014 number of users

Internet users based on subscribers type

Internet users penetration and users % in EA

Change of number of users 2010 -2014

EA Internet statistics1

WATER MAP

Moody's Rating

Map cities - Tanzania

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Music I listen

Some good advice for journalism

Must watch for journalism students

Announcement

Members of BAJ 2 class, please be informed that there is  a change of plan with regard to newspaper production. For lack of time and seriousness on your part, I hereby cancel the exercise. Instead you will each be required to publish your articles in your blog. 

Lovely song

Share videos of all types in your blog, like I am doing in this post. Here is one of the songs I have come to like recently. Listen to Don Williams 'Desperately Loving You' , along with its beautiful lyrics.   

Some tips for successful blogging

One thing I have learnt about blogging is that if you are just starting you have a better chance of becoming successful if you learn for both experts and veteran bloggers.

Well, there are so many experts who have written extensively about blogging and provide tips for young bloggers. Here, I would recommend an article published on the British Guardian newspaper website which you can read from here,  You can also read an article published on Minimalists website from here. Also try an article from Lifehacker website from here.

For inspiration, make a habit of reading two of the most successful bloggers Millard Ayo and Issa Michuzi.

You can make lots of money by running a blog!

My Kauthar  

  Today I taught second year journalism students at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Dar es Salaam  how to create a blog.

I believe running a blog is an opportunity to make money especially now that many companies compete to attract customers using different ways including advert. Also , students must remember that jobs are scarce. This means students must grab any opportunity for self employment.

In my earlier lecture last week, I told students that in order to have successful blogs, they must take care of three things.

Firstly, they must choose a good theme for their blog. The more unique is the theme, the more possibility for a blog to attract readers.  They must also make sure they post original content and not plagiarised material.

Secondly, It is very important to include lots of pictures and videos in your blog. People easily get bored if a blog contains too much text and only a few or no pictures, videos or audio.

Thirdly, I told students that they must also make use of social media to publicise their blogs. Try as much as possible to provide a link of any posting you publish in all of your social media accounts.

Apart from the above three advises, I also want to emphasize that if you want to have loyal audience who visit your everyday , you must also make sure that you post new content everyday or at least regularly.

In my lecture today, I taught student a number of things on how to create blogs. I also gave them an assignment gave to create blogs of their own.  Some of the things I taught students today include how include pictures (and writing a caption) and videos in their blog posts. I also taught them how to create links as wells as adding other gadgets.   

By the way, don't mind or stress asking yourself how these pictures relate to this article. I have included them for lack of betters ones. Important thing with these images is that students should be reminded to include pictures in their postings.