New app for facebook groups

Facebook’s strategy of creating separate apps for every feature of Facebook has been very controversial amongst its users – take for example, the Facebook Messenger furore when they forced everyone onto it. Well, get ready to add another app to your home screen. Facebook has created a new app for Facebook Groups.
As you would have expected, this app allows you to create and manage your groups, send posts and other media, and discovering new groups. Because, apparently, we needed a brand new experience for Groups, and the only way to achieve that was to spin it off in a new app.
However, unlike Messenger, you can still use the main Facebook app to browse, create, manage and post into groups – well, at least for now. In other words, if you don’t like the new Groups app, you can easily switch back using the main Facebook app.
The app is available on Android and iOS from today.

How small travel companies can work with bloggers to promote their brands?

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While at the World Travel Market in London recently, a question I heard from several small travel companies was “How can I engage with Travel Bloggers to promote my business?”. You may be an established niche company that wants to engage with new customers through Social Media, or you may be a new start-up that’s decided to go the online route – but most likely you’ll be operating on a shoestring budget and not have much money for marketing and PR. This article aims give you some ideas on how you might engage with Travel Bloggers to promote your small travel business.

First some things to avoid

• Most bloggers work extremely hard on their sites and get very little financial return from them, and they don’t want to feel they are being taken for a ride by those who see them as a source of ‘free’ promotion.
• Don’t send impersonal press releases to a random list of bloggers, your efforts are better spent on targeted individual approaches.
• Don’t send offers of ‘free’ content which are thinly disguised link building campaigns – most bloggers realise that links from their site have a value and they are sensitive about publishing articles that reduce the trust of their audience.
• Don’t expect bloggers to write about your travel service unless they have experienced it for themselves – it’s better to make the invitation to ask them to try it out at no cost.

Warning: The ideas that follow may not cost a huge amount of money, but you will still need to be prepared to invest a fair amount of time to make them work;

 Engagement through Social Media 

If you want to engage with travel bloggers, you need to meet them in their own playgrounds such as Twitter, Facebook and Google + . The first step is to open an account on one or all of these platforms for your business (if you don’t already have one) and start to use them to engage with travel bloggers. Make time in your schedule to regularly post a mixture of links to your own blog or website e.g. special offers, re-tweets or links to articles written by travel bloggers and links to general news items, always sticking to material that will interest your target customer. Follow or Like the travel bloggers whose articles you enjoy and start to engage them in conversation through comments on their articles.
The purpose of this activity is to not only engage with your target customer but also build relationships with travel bloggers who will then promote your business directly or indirectly in the future. You can use your time most effectively in Social media by using free tools such as Tweet Deck or HootSuite to schedule your Tweets and Facebook posts and Google Reader to monitor the blog posts of Travel Bloggers you are following. You can also be active on Forums such as Travel Blog Exchange  to answer questions that establish you as an expert in your sector, or to answer location based questions about your region such as Gogobot or Lonely Planet Thorntree.

Creating Profile in Huawei Modem Mobile Partner.

Creating Profile in Huawei Modem Mobile Partner.

Huawei Modem

Every modem, whether Huawei or ZTE installs a programs in the computer. This includes the drivers and the interface for the users to interact with instead of the complicated process within windows. The installed software is also known as the modem dashboard. In many cases, modem comes with a customized dashboard specific for the mobile company e.g. Safaricom, Airtel e.t.c.For customized modems there is no need to configure as it comes already configured, and install the same into the computer. However, if you have an Open modem not locked to
specific mobile company or unlocked modem, then you have have to configure the settings depending on the SIM card you want to use. In my own experience, Safaricom, Airtel and YU network work automatically with any setting.
To add Orange network in the Dashboard whether in Safaricom or Airtel software, you will have to create a new profile. The process is simple, So there is no need to worry.

Huawei Modem Dashboard

Open the Modem Software: Dashboard..

• Click on the ‘Tools’ Tab to open
• Select ‘Option.’
• Select ‘Profile Management.’
• On the far right ‘Click New to create a new profile.’
• Enter Detail as shown in the image above.
•  Click ‘Save button’ to save the new profile.

When using Orange SIM card always select the orange profile. You can customize the settings for other mobile networks in the same way.

Modem Network Profiles

Yes,  you can now enjoy the benefits associated with your preferred network.
Solista…….



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Simple Ways to access Facebook even when its Blocked

Simple Ways to access Facebook even when its Blocked

Facebook Blocked!

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With almost one billion active user, Facebook is not doubt the most popular  site in the world. People all over the world visit Facebook for Social or Business needs. However,  a lot of time and money is wasted at workplace and in schools when people start chatting with friends at the expense of their duties. To curb this most organizations, institution have blocked Facebook access during working hours.

So what happens to the Facebook addicts?

A lot of literature exist in the internet on how to access Facebook even when its blocked. Some of the methods proposed either requires computer geeks or become limited due to the rights one has on the computer he/she is using.These articles explains three simple ways one can make it through.

1. Using Hootsuite

Hoot suite is a social media management service where one can manage most of the popular social sites such as Facebook, Twitter among others from one place. 

HootSuite services are free but one can opt for the premium version with more services.

How to connect Facebook account to Hootsuite?

The first time you connect the Facebook account to Hootsuite, you need to have access to Facebook  you can do this using modem internet or any other unrestricted internet. 

1. sign up for a new account in hootsuite.
2. click "add a new stream, select from the list and provide the login details. 

Nb: Once Hootsuite logs in, all the connected social sites connect even if they are blocked by the firewall.

Pro's

• One can view his wall and that of his/ her friends
• one can add comment and also respond to others comment. 
• view all the streams he has added in one window known as the "Dashboard"

Cons

You can't have live chat  or access you Facebook inbox in Hootsuite. however, hootsuite has started what they call conversation where you can add friends and start a chart.

Using Outlook.com

Outlook is the new look of what used to be Hotmail account 

So you will have to create a new account if you don't have one. 
One the top right side there is  your name and an icon or your image if you have added one. click the icon and it will show your profile. 

Once in your profile, you can add, manage your connection. Connect your Facebook account by providing the login detail.

Once connected one can access the Facebook chat even when Facebook is blocked.

  The chat window is on the top right of the window.

Enjoy the experience, but remember not to be caught.

How to Reduce Data Changes in Modems.

How to Reduce Data Changes in Modems.

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What do you use internet for?    

 More people than ever before are using modem to access internet especially where there are no other available networks. Despite the government efforts to ensure that internet access charges are low, The charges are way to high for “mwanaichi wa kawaida” to afford comfortably without much squeeze to his budget.

My focus here is on the light internet users who mainly access the internet to access their mails, social network(Facebook, Google plus and twitter), Doing research work. For heavy internet user, very little can be done to save bundles.

Stopping background programs from connecting to internet.

     My approach to save data usage is through:

•  reducing data usage by hidden activities running in the background without the knowledge of the user.
•  Reduce data usage by other programs items the user is aware of but not really important to what one is doing at the time.

      Most of the data bundle is consumed by software's updates running background without the user knowledge such as; Ms windows update, antivirus update, Ms office updates and other programs updates.

1. Microsoft Windows and Antivirus updates are very much crucial for any computer security against attacks by virus and hackers.. However, this are the major consumer of the data bundles. It becomes tricky to choose between saving data bundles or risk computer – from virus attack or vice versa. Well, there is answer to the paradox. If within a week you get access to unlimited internet, every time you have the unlimited internet ensure that you update Microsoft Windows, Antivirus software and any other software that require updates. After the updates, disable all the automatic updates from all this software's to manual update  where you will be doing it weekly. To disable most of the program automatic updates. Go to program setting> updates. Uncheck the box next to automatic update to Manual update. For Microsoft Windows, Go to start>Control Panel> window updates> change settings. select never check for updates or check for updates but let me chose when to install. You can then update when you have unlimited internet.

Window updates. 

2. Another way that you can save on data  bundles especially when having few data bundles , but with a lot of work to do is to ensure you update your software's regularly such that they will only takes few data bundles as opposed to when they have to update a full month backlog. for example an Antivirus updated after two days only takes 5 – 10mb as opposed to one last updated one month ago which may consume up to 100mb in one instance.

3 . When browsing not every time that you need images or picture in the webpage. The more pictures or the high their resolution, the more the more data bundles they take. When you open a webpage with images, they can account for almost 60% of the data size(  in MB) used. Thus its worth considering disabling the images when not in need of them for example when doing a search not image related. To disable image in most browser, Go to Tools > Options> then depending on browser in can be in contents. for example in Mozilla. its under Content-  uncheck the box – load images automatically.

Mozilla Images disabling. 

If most of the thing mentioned above are implemented, i can assure that your data bundles may last double or triples the time it used to last.

Have a data saving day.

Good bye.

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