Take the next step
3 years ago, I agreed to stop being a freelancer, and take up the challenge and opportunity to be iHub community manager. I was a freelance graphic designer who before that had been running projects at not-for-profit organizations; working with (what NGOs like to refer to as ) vulnerable communities; caretakers of orphans (widows), […]
It’s a few weeks shy of 2 years since I joined the iHub. When I joined, I wasn’t quite sure what being a Community Manager meant exactly. Or if I would survive in employment after being a freelancer for a whole year before that. But meeting with Jimmy Gitonga (former iHub Hypemaster) and Nekesa “It’s […]
Definition: “A selfie is a photo of oneself take by oneself. In this article, we shall expand the word “selfie” (in quotes) to also include casual photos of oneself not necessarily taken by oneself using a phone camera. Let us go ahead and exclude professional photographers the caliber of @Truthslinger and @WhiteAfrican from this definition […]
If you are an avid texter/IM-er then emoji and smileys are your friend. Then no doubt you have noticed how discriminative most popular IM apps (WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook messenger, Hangouts) are to Africans, especially African woman. Right? A number of very important emoticons for Any African woman (or man) to express herself are conspicuously missing […]
So if you are a visual artist who does it commercially you probably use the Adobe Suite of products. Illustrator (I’m a vectors girl), Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, the works A few of us have bought a copy of CS6 (or are using a corporate licence courtesy of their employer). Based on a statistic that Photoshop […]
Your traditional image of a geek overlays comfortably with that of the mad scientist. Hair unkempt, shabbily groomed, largely introverted and ill at ease in social situations prefers to sit and work away from everyone else, mostly in their bedroom at home. And of course, the compulsory geek glasses. Your traditional geek (who we shall […]