The Brand Evangelist

As an enhancement of  the existing web platform  – www.nairatweets.net – a crowd sourcing, social engagement   service available to Nigerian Businesses and Twitter Users – Nairatweets has  launched its  Digital Content Store.

The aim of the Store is to provide digital content (music, mobile applications, themes, etc.) for twitter users.  The store will cater for organizations and individuals who are ready to offer their products and services for free or for sale at very affordable prices. The Store will bridge the  gap  between digital content providers and  mobile devices users  for free flow of  relevant and interesting contents, and particularly among Nairatweets users.

Nairatweets Store will help Nigerian Developers and Publishers of Digital Contents to share and spread the use of their apps and even monetize them. Nairatweets Users can use their  Earnings on the  platform to pay for contents from  the Store while  other users can make use other optional payment systems available on the platform.

“Nairatweets  Store will give  Mobile App Developers and Brands  the  opportunity to create engaging  content for the online community and also offer a platform to monetize the content" said Fehintolu Olaogun, a co-Founder at Exolve Technologies Limited.
The store is available on all mobile devices, and allows users to have access to digital content 24/7 and can be accessed by visiting http://www.nairatweets.net/store

About NairaTweets.Net
Nairatweet.net is  Nigeria’s largest Twitter marketing platform; a  Crowd Sourcing, social interaction marketing application helping Advertisers to reach over  500,000 Nigerian Twitter Users with their products and services and the number is still growing. Its approach to marketing is direct and gives real time feedback from its users.
Visit www.nairatweets.net for more details.

If you have ever found yourself lost joining a social network as a newbie, you are not alone. When I signed on to Facebook, I had same issue, when I signed on to Twitter it was the same story.

How did I find my way?

A friend showed me how to use twitter with the basics. The rest I pretty much figure out on my own. While exploring the social web, especially twitter, I noticed that the people who were getting things done and having fun while at it on twitter were formed into groups and communities. Breaking into those communities and joining the conversation can be very tasking for a newbie, you would agree with me. My solution is define who you are and what you want out of the social web and join a community that shares your interests.

I have been able to spot many communities here on twitter, some are formal, some are informal. They have provided an entry point and a means of joining the online conversation. We have the #usguys, a community of professionals who talk about social media, tech and how it can affect their lives and help grow businesses. There is also Tribber. Tribber is a group of bloggers who provide support for one another by helping each others message and posts go viral, you can join only by being invited by an already existing member. So, Tribber is exclusive.

Time would fail me if I go on to run through all the groups that are, as some are not even as formal as the two I have mentioned. If you take your time to observe you would see them from the way they form here on twitter.

We launched our community of tech lovers and friends on the 13th of May 2011 with Deborah Elzie as our honourable guest.

We lunch the tech community on twitter tomorrow.

It is going to be one of the most interesting and enjoyable ride you’ve ever had online. Either new to twitter chat or not, it is certainly going to be lots of fun and value adding to each participants.

Believing you have already read in details here what the twitter community of tech lovers is all about and the benefits attached to it, I am going to set the background for the lunch.

Background for the launch

Tomorrow, May 13th, 2011, by 12noon GMT (1pm Nigerian time and 8am EST) we would be having the Lunch of the community on twitter. We have an invited guest, her name is Deborah Elzie. she is with The Kuyu project team - The Kuyu Project is a digital literacy initiative aimed at teaching African youth how to fully utilize social media and other digital tools to effect social change in their communities to achieve their goals and objectives. She is also with Story spaces and AfriWiT (African Women in Technology). She has love and passion for Africa and tech.

I met her on twitter. Twitter is a wonderful tool for sharing and networking. this is what we are leveraging on with this new community we are forming and lunching May 13, 2011.

Sarah Lacy of Tech Crunch wrote last week about Nigerian tech scene. What she wrote and how she wrote in brought about some controversy. She painted a picture of Nigerian Geeks being the folks that are at Computer Village, a place where we buy mobile phones and some electronic gadget. I want to believe she has just told part one of the story and she would write another to give a more general impression of how things are.

Before then let me share with you what some real tech girls and guys did over the weekend in Lagos; Garage48 event.

Sometimes when we see privacy instructions before being allowed to use a service (terms of service), we never read them, we just accept. Knowing fully that these stuffs play a huge role, you should take some time and update your knowledge, Know your inter web meme.  

The Internet is an open medium for sharing, leaning and innovating. The Internet or Inter-web is a platform to build a lot of things. Since its birth many things have changed in the society.