In the middle of your problems, trust God. Believe that He is in control. Know that He is working all things for your good. Trust Him. The Church faces a generation which is trying to drink its way to prosperity, war its way to peace, spend its way to wealth and enjoy its way to heaven.
On your own strength, you can do nothing. Trust in him.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
My Kids
Toluwani Samuel Oluwamuyiwa was born on September 18th 1997,looking back now I have course to thank God for his life.He would soon be going to college.He is a bookworm by all standard. Praise and Precious came after Tolu. They defied all myths about Twins and they are waxing strong by the day.By next year they will also be going to college.The youngest is Eniola who by all means combines the ingeniuty of the three.She is God sent.God I thank you for their lives.
Dateline: 13-12-2010 -That was then. Tolu is now in JSS3, while Praise and Precious are in JSS2.Eniola is in the primary school.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Reason,Season and Lifetime
You never know when your guardian angel will be there for you so I am writng this to educate on the reason, season and one.s lifetime.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person...
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done..
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life..
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life. . . . . . .
. .. . . . . . whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Expert lists how to maximise online publishing
This story was written and published in TheGuardian on my return from Vienna, Austria.
THERE has been a wake-up call on online publishers to allow the public speak more on their web pages. Mr. Robert Cauthorn, the chief executive officer of City Tools, USA, the keynote speaker, made this call on Thursday at a 2-day digital conference titled 'Beyond the printed Word' organised by IFRA in Vienna, Austria.
Cauthorn, creator of the first profitable newspaper website, said this is the third-greatest news period ever, the others being World War 11, the 1960s and now. He urged web publishers not to be afraid of loosing, rather they should share stories. He said with 43.7 million blogs, 44,000 new videos posted on Google Video each day, and 50 million MySpace members are now sharing stories.
In his presentation titled:" The new Web 2.0 players: MySpace, YouTube, Flickr -- What can we learn,'' he said the communication model has been that the papers talk and the audience listen. That has changed to the paper talking, the reader listening, then the reader talking, the paper listening, then everyone talking and listening. The best move is to participate, not dominate. Cauthorn urges participation and not dominate.
Cauthorn believes in the new Internet world: "Newspapers used to throw out letters to the editor. They'd publish two and throw out the rest. The audience got used to the idea, therefore, that media is there to silence the crowd. Now they're saying that 'we're going to go somewhere else'. The meaning of authority has changed and smart organisations share that authoritative voice -- the best move is to participate, not dominate."
He also urges publishers to let community tag content. "Think about it: If you get 500 people to look at your content and say what they feel the category, the tag, should be, don't you think you'd get interesting results? Why not let the community organise and tag your content?" asks keynote speaker Robert Cauthorn. "The notion of the Web as platform should lead to the notion of the story as an application...Consider the deep poetry in this sharing among our readers, the desire to build communities. People are finding each other, they're telling stories and learning new responsibilities. It's a great time to participate; it's a great time to be a journalist."
Cauthorn cited Digg as a means by which users decide the news agenda and noted that it has passed the New York Times in user numbers. He also pointed out that the sharing process requires a 'folksonomy' - a means of organising material like a taxonomy but in the sense of folk wisdom - the way people themselves decide on what is of interest and priority.
Cauthorn implored papers to turn their content and their archives into Wikis and let the users loose on it, so as not to have to do the 'heavy lifting' of sifting and prioritising. He pointed to City Tools' home page, with the ability to link and click so that lists of top-10 topics can be discussed, challenged, pooled, and aggregated - then dropped onto an iPod with one click.
In conclusion, he exhorts newspapers to go back to their content and consider:
How much of it is telling stories?
Have you distributed authority?
Share everything.
Make documents come alive.
Grant prestige to others.
Participate in community.
Let many people create context and content.
Encourage discovery.
In his presentation titled Traditional media and the blogosphere, Colin Daniels, acting director, New Media Lab, Rhodes University, South Africa said the blogging search engine Technorati currently tracks more than 60 million blogs, with one blog created every two seconds, leading to a blogging landscape 100 times bigger now than in 2003.
Comparing the online viewing figures of mainstream media and personal blogs, Daniels made it clear that giants like the New York Times clearly dominate the top spots. However, borrowing the 'long tail' argument, he showed that moving further down the graph, blogs become more numerous, and if you take into account the full length of this tail, they actually draw a cumulative readership greater than the mainstream media.
Daniels then considered why newspaper-run blog sites and their reasons for success:
Blogs attract a higher quality of feedback and interaction than forums.
Bloggers can cover niches ignored by the paper's regular news beats.
Blogs increase the community coverage of newspapers.
His conclusions are that:
Blogs are a bottom-up social movement forming the bulk of the media long tail.
They're updated constantly and generate site traffic.
Bloggers are great media watchdogs and symbiotic relationships form between them and the journalists.
Journalists use them increasingly for leads.
Staff blogs alone, while safe, are not enough.
They're a bottom-up social movement that forms the bulk of the long tail.
Conversations and commentary cluster around posts.
They have advertising potential.
They serve niches better than reporters can.
They're not going away.
No fewer than 13 papers were presented at the conference which attracted over 500 participants from 43 countries around the world.
THERE has been a wake-up call on online publishers to allow the public speak more on their web pages. Mr. Robert Cauthorn, the chief executive officer of City Tools, USA, the keynote speaker, made this call on Thursday at a 2-day digital conference titled 'Beyond the printed Word' organised by IFRA in Vienna, Austria.
Cauthorn, creator of the first profitable newspaper website, said this is the third-greatest news period ever, the others being World War 11, the 1960s and now. He urged web publishers not to be afraid of loosing, rather they should share stories. He said with 43.7 million blogs, 44,000 new videos posted on Google Video each day, and 50 million MySpace members are now sharing stories.
In his presentation titled:" The new Web 2.0 players: MySpace, YouTube, Flickr -- What can we learn,'' he said the communication model has been that the papers talk and the audience listen. That has changed to the paper talking, the reader listening, then the reader talking, the paper listening, then everyone talking and listening. The best move is to participate, not dominate. Cauthorn urges participation and not dominate.
Cauthorn believes in the new Internet world: "Newspapers used to throw out letters to the editor. They'd publish two and throw out the rest. The audience got used to the idea, therefore, that media is there to silence the crowd. Now they're saying that 'we're going to go somewhere else'. The meaning of authority has changed and smart organisations share that authoritative voice -- the best move is to participate, not dominate."
He also urges publishers to let community tag content. "Think about it: If you get 500 people to look at your content and say what they feel the category, the tag, should be, don't you think you'd get interesting results? Why not let the community organise and tag your content?" asks keynote speaker Robert Cauthorn. "The notion of the Web as platform should lead to the notion of the story as an application...Consider the deep poetry in this sharing among our readers, the desire to build communities. People are finding each other, they're telling stories and learning new responsibilities. It's a great time to participate; it's a great time to be a journalist."
Cauthorn cited Digg as a means by which users decide the news agenda and noted that it has passed the New York Times in user numbers. He also pointed out that the sharing process requires a 'folksonomy' - a means of organising material like a taxonomy but in the sense of folk wisdom - the way people themselves decide on what is of interest and priority.
Cauthorn implored papers to turn their content and their archives into Wikis and let the users loose on it, so as not to have to do the 'heavy lifting' of sifting and prioritising. He pointed to City Tools' home page, with the ability to link and click so that lists of top-10 topics can be discussed, challenged, pooled, and aggregated - then dropped onto an iPod with one click.
In conclusion, he exhorts newspapers to go back to their content and consider:
How much of it is telling stories?
Have you distributed authority?
Share everything.
Make documents come alive.
Grant prestige to others.
Participate in community.
Let many people create context and content.
Encourage discovery.
In his presentation titled Traditional media and the blogosphere, Colin Daniels, acting director, New Media Lab, Rhodes University, South Africa said the blogging search engine Technorati currently tracks more than 60 million blogs, with one blog created every two seconds, leading to a blogging landscape 100 times bigger now than in 2003.
Comparing the online viewing figures of mainstream media and personal blogs, Daniels made it clear that giants like the New York Times clearly dominate the top spots. However, borrowing the 'long tail' argument, he showed that moving further down the graph, blogs become more numerous, and if you take into account the full length of this tail, they actually draw a cumulative readership greater than the mainstream media.
Daniels then considered why newspaper-run blog sites and their reasons for success:
Blogs attract a higher quality of feedback and interaction than forums.
Bloggers can cover niches ignored by the paper's regular news beats.
Blogs increase the community coverage of newspapers.
His conclusions are that:
Blogs are a bottom-up social movement forming the bulk of the media long tail.
They're updated constantly and generate site traffic.
Bloggers are great media watchdogs and symbiotic relationships form between them and the journalists.
Journalists use them increasingly for leads.
Staff blogs alone, while safe, are not enough.
They're a bottom-up social movement that forms the bulk of the long tail.
Conversations and commentary cluster around posts.
They have advertising potential.
They serve niches better than reporters can.
They're not going away.
No fewer than 13 papers were presented at the conference which attracted over 500 participants from 43 countries around the world.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Meeting in Vienna, Austria
The month was November and the year was 2006. I got this mail from InWent in Germany asking if I would be interested in attending an Infra conference holding in Vienna Austria. Of course, I jumped at it because I needed to take off time from the stress at the Rutam House. After all the necessary formalty including the very unfriendly embassy staff at the Austrian Embassy in Abuja where I went twice from Lagos even when it was not necessary to bring documents of my children who were not travelling with me on the four-day trip. I finally landed in Vienna enroute Amsterdam on a cold Tuesday morning and was met by the very good InWent staff who had booked accomodation for the ten of us from Africa and Asia.The conference showcased the latest trend in the digital world.I won an Ipod Nano in a raffle draw where we were supposed to drop our call cards. That Ipod, i carry about jealously all over Lagos and I have a load of music collections in it. I met some of ma friends whom we earlier attended a course organised by InWent in Berlin, Germany 2004.
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