Comments on: Barcamp Nairobi Begins

By: Nairobian Perspective

Nairobian Perspective — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:40 +0000

A Bloggercon should be in the works, im sure Erik, Daudi and the rest will concur with me ,it is so necessary!Peperuka, you are right on with your presentation, too bad may have missed it for Safari Sevens

By: cnongera

cnongera — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:02:28 +0000

Tanzanians? are you the three masketeers I saw?
WOW! I’m smiling from ear to ear. Its my hope that you learnt alot but let it not stop there. GO and DO/IMPLEMENT what you learnt.
Karibuni tena Kenya.

By: Moez Shabbir

Moez Shabbir — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:15:23 +0000

Hello Guys,
We(moez, meeten and ali) came all the way from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for Barcamp Nairobi 08, which was a great learning experiance , got to know tech gurus and the work they do. it will be nice coming back for something alike.

By: Peperuka

Peperuka — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:29:29 +0000

I’ll second Nairobian Perspective… I did a presentation (available at http://www.peperuka.com/BARCAMP08_PEPERUKA.pdf by the way – before the Wiki page goes dead) about Website Optimisation.

I was very surprised to see that no one was using the Adword Keyword Tool to track popular keywords, only one person was using the popular Google Webmaster Tools , only two persons knew what a sitemap.xml was and only a bunch knew what Permalinks (or nice URL) are…

So, when I spoke about canonization and double content issues, robots.txt and .htaccess, scrapers and bad bots, spoke about Matt Cutts recommandations, I am sure most of you were lost (if not bored).

It shows that there is indeed a need to educate bloggers on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) for better ranking and therefore, opportunity to blog for cash.

Anyway, thanks to the team for organising Barcamp… It was really nice and it helped me to realise that it is important to integrate a group like this one so that I don’t remain the anonymous guy with 10 different nicknames…

And for those who came at my presentation, I’ll do better next time…

Peperuka

By: Kirima

Kirima — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:51:15 +0000

A blogger conference would be neat too!

By: Nairobian Perspective

Nairobian Perspective — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:49:01 +0000

loved it, but now talks should be on for our first bloggercon, just discovered we are seriously deficient on blogging skillz, SEO, Link building and baiting etc!

By: savvy

savvy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:38:06 +0000

i attended the barcamp and it was lovely, can’t wait for the next one, pity it has to be after a year…

what made it particularly appealing was the informality of it all..no stuffy conference feeling

By: Juliana

Juliana — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:37:48 +0000

Chai and Samosa?!! Hash i could swear you are trying to make me teleport myself there 🙂 samosa?!! omg.

Looks like too much fun; enjoy it and pass my regards to the other TedSters and friends there. Pics are lovely!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:18:59 +0000

Looks like a lot of fun! Interesting about Plone. I was researching it for a while as a platform. Let me know if you get any new ideas.

By: simba

simba — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:30:45 +0000

White African,

I thought Barcamp was at the 680 hotel?

Now the Jacaranda?

What happenened?