Client Ujuajiosis Syndrome (CUS)

Turn to your neighbor, ask him/her to sit down and pay attention cause I'm not likely to say this another time. We need to get this straight and understood for once and for all cause it's cost me 3 clients in the last 3 weeks. Severally I've been faced with the challenge of explaining why the client needs web hosting and more so why it's renewed every year or so. Today was the last nail and I thought I should get this clear or just quit chasing hosting & domain clients [too much trouble which won't justify the cost]. From where I stand, it seems to me like client knows that they at least need to get a domain name but they don't believe they need anything else save for the website which only needs to just get the design and the web designer may pave way and leave the rest to them. Clients want a website they can walk away with almost physically and own everything from the http:// to the .com or .co.ke.. How this thing works however is different from what you think or wish.
For instance these are Wikipedia definitions

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS).

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server owned or leased for use by clients, as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for other servers located in their data center.

The whole point is that you can't fully own a domain/server space. More so cause you can't handle the issues that arise from time to time.
I however don't get very disappointing at clients who want to know everything and at the same time mix perceptions with what you tell them. I've written before that people particularly kenyans are wajuaji. You want to know what medicine the doctor has used, how many bacteria it can kill in an hour and the concentration of hydroxyl ions in the medicine. Knowledge is power right?? Well I hope I've made it known too that not all knowledge is necessary so next time you want to be someone's client/customer, please if there's no trust go away. Forget this thing of asking about every detail nikama you're out to investigate business process ati to prove you're involved.

I leave you with this diagram of a web hosting environment  Read it, understand na next time sitaki maswali ya kujua web server hufanya aje ama aje...

Week poa 

I am going to update a status

There's a common statement among many of your friends "I don't facebook much these days."
I find it rather annoying cause this is mostly the reason why our online content does not get generated as much as it should because of these people who less often post/update their online profiles as much as they used to some time back. People were fast to try out all features of facebook against social humanity until now they don't want to use any of the same anymore.

There are plainly two reasons i'd use to explain why people don't want to use fb as much as they used to back then,

First of these reasons is that they got bored of facebooking, or that it's less fun these days. Why would you say it's less fun yet you now have more friends so that should mean a higher possibility of interesting people. These lot who use this reason are mostly the ones who talked to everyone, flirted with everyone else and were in a relationship with all of the remaining ones. What's bad is that they log in daily to these sites but rarely want to get noticed so they carry out no activity at all. They keep seeing your updates daily occasionally 'liking' and after 6 months they say hi on and claim that you've been lost and how they've missed YEW. Ok that would be a good stunt if you were doing some professional PR for yourself, elsewhere you've failed cause this conversation doesn't even last then again you begin another journey of months before saying the same thing to the same people.

The second category is the ones who actually got busy and really don't have much time to talk to people on social media. I don't hate on these group for their sincerity but the bottom-line is that they also deserted social media.


I'm going to belong to none of these groups. For as long as I'm able to i shall tweet,update my status, make a new connection on linked in, add another person on google+ and share good material on the internet. I shall participate to healthy discussions online and read more blogs online. I shall be part of the internet society for as long as i can.
this i believe will be good of me as a citizen of the web.

shall you update you're status with me and keep online content alive?

2nd ActiveWeb Workshop

Two companies have teamed up for a web workshop. Savvy Africa and Passive Softwares Technologies
They have called it ActiveWeb Workshop. it's a second after the first successful one held on 5th-8th July 2011 at the Meridian Hotel.

About the Web Workshop


The Web Workshop is the 1st ever prestigious web
workshop in East Africa that addresses the modern corporate
website development. The workshop covers corporate websites
from strategic planning to results analysis. The aspect of website
security is most emphasized.

Who Should Attend ?

Anyone seeking technical knowledge on implementing
a corporate content management website. (Joomla CMS).
Professionals in IT, Marketing, Public Relations, Digital Content Mng.
& Web Developers or any departments charged with website
management for corporate organizations.

They intend to cover through the following categories of web

• Joomla CMS
• Joomla Security
• SEO
• E - Marketing
• Social Media
• Content Mgt.

Registration
You may register online at wwww.savvyafrica.com or
www.softwares.co.ke download fill the registration form
and send by post or email to info@savvyafrica.com or
info@softwares.co.ke

cost

I'll not say anything about the costs here on my blog since this is not advertising but just a feature I'm doing as a way of passing information on what's happening in town. I however think that there should be a reduced cost for students in order to cater for people like me who are very interested but for a reason or another may think that some charges are costly

Overview
The timing for such events in my opinion is well timed with the increased connectivity of the world in all ways of interaction. I missed the first one, i'm a student so you should understand and try figure out what could have caused me not to attend. This second one however is one i want to attend even if for just a day and get a feel of how it's actually applied in business.
You may have a look at (download) the brochure from here.

PS. For this publicity it would be nice if the companies sponsored me fro two days so that i can cover what and how the event goes.