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Dr.Chris Hart, is now on www.allwoman.co.ke

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:03:14 +0000

Dr.Chris Hart has given www.allwoman.co.ke access to his past work which is sure to add immense value to the content offering on Allwoman.co.ke. Progress had slowed down in the past due to compelling content issues. We realized that in as much as local issues have a global spin on them, all content meant for the local market must be written with that market in mind, down to culture and socialization.

Most of the articles by Dr.Chris Hart, have had an offline life in the local dailies and on his request, where appropriate the copyright information will be reflected on the articles.

Enjoy the compelling read that is Dr.Hart.

Of easy money…

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:33:04 +0000

I have in the recent past come to see that people will anything for a quick especially when they think they have you hoodwinked to thinking that they have performed as per agreements.We had engaged a firm to helps in the collation of a local content directory for our allwoman brand. The gist of the task was to research on topics along various lines of interest to the East African woman and create and or modify existing content (from the numerous article database) for the east african lady populace.

The task would be done and the articles availed for publishing. On receipt of the articles it was realized that they were outrightly plagiarized and would result in copyright infringements of the original authors. Interestingly, they are still demanding payment for the non original plagiarized articles and even threatening legal redress.Surely…apat from the fact that we are deeply disappointed and the articles are of no use to us, i am angered at the continued insistence on payment, all the while forgetting that we are in the content space and can easily find the source of the said articles.

That said however, we have asked on public forums like Facebook for users to submit their personal stories and we start from there building a user generated database of content.Sop far we have three female writers contributing and recruiting their pals to write about things going on in their lives. This is a much better approach…

Make over for allwoman :)

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:02:45 +0000

Allwoman has been one of those projects that has been in the pipeline for a couple of years. It was a project targeted at participatory web, and had the regular options – discussion forum, newsletters, photo gallery, opinion polls the works. It being a pet project saw it get sporadic attention, when we were not working towards paying bills. We had a small window of opportunity when an up and coming young ladies publication – eveGirl needed a web presence ans we had pretty much finalized the CMS and other backend features. Nyikuri worked on the backend.

Unfortunately, scope creep and other issues saw us pull back from the project and it reverted back to its original name of Allwoman. We also had a difficult time coming up with content with a local twist, which we saw as the strength of this project. Finally we managed to get close to 1,000 articles for the launch of the website.

But upon analysis, we realised that the site and backend, while still good eye candy had been passed by the times in terms of tools that would take the content further and enable better content sharing and experience for the users.

We are moving the entire site to a blog concept that will make it easier to grow the community and enable more participation from our audience.

Allwoman walks of of th salon on the 1st of February 2008