Inari Media

• Are Bloggers Journalists?

  Posted: April 28, 2010, 4:11 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Last week, the intrepid Jason Chen of gadget blog Gizmodo wrote a post on the next iPhone which brought the comments system on other blogs in the Gawker network juddering to a halt as eager Apple fans flooded to the site to get inside information on the next version of what some disparaging commenters call [...]

• How Far Should Bosses Accommodate the Religious Beliefs of their Employees?

  Posted: April 22, 2010, 4:28 pm by Stephanie Migot

  I’m not sure when, but I must have outed myself as a dirty atheist at some point on this blog, as there have been comments telling me that I am mistaken. Nevertheless, despite the example set by Richard Dawkins, I don’t condemn believers outright, and I do believe that they are entitled to a modicum [...]

• Jobs for the Non-Gold-Digging Woman

  Posted: April 21, 2010, 6:31 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Yesterday was Equal Pay Day in the US, marking the point at which women would have had to work into 2010 to earn the same as men in 2009. An extra four months? Seems a little unfair. Given the discrimination they face in the corporate world, is it any wonder that quite a few young [...]

• Population Growth Could Destroy Africa

  Posted: April 20, 2010, 6:54 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Via my Kenya Imagine colleague Daniel Waweru, I came across a blog post by World Bank economist Wolfgang Fengler arguing that population growth in Africa might actually aid development. Essentially, he notes that economic growth is tied to urbanisation, which is tied to population growth. So as long as the population continues to increase everything [...]

• Do Information Sources Matter?

  Posted: April 19, 2010, 4:17 pm by Stephanie Migot

  I don’t know if you spend any time reading political websites, but they do have a bit of a jones on for where a story comes from and its subsequent credibility. The websites on the left won’t countenance anything from right of centre as having any merit, while the websites on the right will regard [...]

• Freeware of the Week! [Sweet Home 3D]

  Posted: April 16, 2010, 5:51 pm by Stephanie Migot

  I have a confession to make: if you’ve ever wondered who the crazy people are who constantly think about home renovation and interior design, I am one of the guilty ones. There is nothing that will distract me from a task faster than leaving me in a room with a property magazine. It’s insane, as [...]

• Don’t Let Poor Speech Derail Your Message

  Posted: April 13, 2010, 4:46 pm by Stephanie Migot

  I fired up a podcast yesterday to listen to a panel discussion that I had been meaning to get round to for a while. It was a panel discussion chaired by a journalist and a bunch of bloggers I read regularly. They were going to be discussing an area where they all, naturally, have expertise [...]

• How Do You Like to Do Your Internet Fighting?

  Posted: April 12, 2010, 6:17 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Sometimes, kids, two blogs you like might have a falling out and say some hurtful things about each other. I understand that it can be painful to read these tings, and I know you wish that they would just kiss and make up. Just remember that you don’t have to take sides, this isn’t your [...]

• Beware the Threat of Burnout

  Posted: April 11, 2010, 5:08 pm by Stephanie Migot

  For somebody who spends most of her time sitting down, I am tired. So very, very tired. Yesterday I was ready to delete my blogs, my social media profiles, block all incoming emails and just go to bed for around three days. This is despite the fact that my typical working day consists of me [...]

• Freeware of the Week! [popurls]

  Posted: April 9, 2010, 4:58 pm by Stephanie Migot

  It’s baaack! I have finally found it within myself to revive my weekly review of free stuff that makes life easier and just that little bit more pleasurable. Don’t get me wrong, there has been some wonderful stuff out there, but for some reason I just couldn’t bring myself to write about any of it. [...]

• Could Bad Branding Scupper South Africa’s World Cup?

  Posted: April 7, 2010, 6:02 pm by Stephanie Migot

  The murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, erstwhile leader of the white separatist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) party, while tragic for his family, undoubtedly also caused headaches in the South African government too. They were already dealing with the scepticism of the Western media, especially the British press, who had openly been sniping about the tournament preparations, the [...]

• In Search of an Alternative to HootSuite

  Posted: April 6, 2010, 5:07 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Did you catch my little rant about HootSuite’s outage over the weekend? It wasn’t pretty. Nevertheless, I still think that it was justified. Easter or no, if you’re running a web business, especially a popular one, it is inconceivable that you don’t have anyone on duty in case something goes wrong. Still, the outage did [...]

• Rich People are Going to Steal Your Children’s Jobs

  Posted: April 5, 2010, 4:30 pm by Stephanie Migot

  Ugh! Who’d be a young jobseeker today? In order to get your career started, it seems that it’s becoming the norm, especially in the creative industries, to “pay your dues” and gain experience by doing innumerable unpaid internships. Now, I can get behind the idea of starting at the bottom and working your way up, [...]

• Bad Communication Leads to Crappy Customer Service

  Posted: April 3, 2010, 10:35 pm by Stephanie Migot

  It boggles my mind how some businesses seem to think that their customers don’t matter. Even though they may have a corporate blog and easy means of being contacted, their version of customer service appears to consist of “This is what we’re doing now. Like it or lump it.” At the time of writing this blog [...]

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