How is anyone ever going to take us seriously if we remain as divided as we are now? We have an association [Bloggers Association of Kenya] now but how many of us are members? The truth of the matter is that we don’t trust each other, we don’t support each other. We only come together when one of us is attacked or when something, that affects most of us, happens. In other words we react when we should be acting. We are our own worst enemies.
Most ad agencies & corporates do not understand or value us. We have ourselves to blame for this but we can change it. Life is about perception.
We need to rid ourselves of the notion that the media is against us just because some journalists do not like us and therefore attack us in their columns. Also, just because a few journalists have plagiarized our work does not mean that they are all bad or culpable.
There are those that don’t want us to succeed. Leave them be, it is impossible to please everyone. It wouldn’t hurt however, if you threw mental rocks at them.
Our unity should be for the greater good and not just for better bargaining power with corporates and ad agencies for advertising monies.
Let’s support each other by commenting on each other’s blogs, sharing posts by others in our networks, reposting other bloggers’ work. Let’s grow together.
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nanjira
I agree. At one point or other,we as an online community operating on the same space need to have a unifying factor for the achievement of greater good.
Well in,Wamathai.
5 Dec
cdoh
I agree with you! We need to stand together but even being together won’t help if we don’t do something with it…we need to begin thinking about what that something is.
5 Dec
Manyuira wa Wanja
i cant agree more with you wamaathai….. We need to compromise our individual ambitions for team building in order to achieve a commendable future.
Everyone is important in the online community. senior bloggers play a role of initiating us into the blogging world and amateurs provide continuity
6 Dec
Thelma
I totally agree with you. i did not know there was a Bloggers Association….that was news. We have to learn to be our brothers keeper.
6 Dec
Nelly Mwangi | Kenyaworldlink
The internet can bring us together, The Kenyan community is spread throughout the world, but through the Internet we can communicate with them and should use our network of contacts to support each other and share information. Thank you for posting your opinion on it.
17 Dec
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RO
there is an association for bloggers, what happened to it?
1 Jan
Philos Mudis
Thanks for the reminder. The last time I checked the BAKE.or.ke website it looked like it was abandoned many months ago.
I remember I tried to add a new blog to the site in November 2011 without much success. I hope it will be revived soon.
Happy blogging.
8 Jan
tSN
I find BAKE a tad snobby. Yay,blogging association,nay,invite only blogging awards. Really?
14 May
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