After an eventful year, Foko coordinator Stéphane Ramananarivo continues to lead workshops to new communities and as a member of the American Press Center was lucky enough to attend conferences and meet journalists and personalities involved in the field.Last Friday, another workshop took place at APC this time to learn about Social Media which is little known by journalists. Two young bloggers helped Stéphane introduce social networks such as Twitter and Facebook but also WordPress. This was the third workshop of a serie which started back in April 2009. APC members were also invited by Foko to attend Barcamp 2 in June 2009 and Friday Talks are still very popular debates among Foko members. He is currently training SAVA and DIANA regions bloggers who showed interest in Foko and its successful Blog Club outreach.
Even the oldest APC member was present
Journalistes et bloggers dans le même sac
Vakinanankaratra bloggers had another workshop last week and shared with us this new gem from the most dynamic region of the country : http://mafiad.wordpress.com/. And a 2nd workshop was held in Fianarantsoa by most activist blogger Jaona, this time with social workers for marginalised youth (AIDS, Homosexuality,etc.). You can learn more about their great work on their blogs which will be updated soon : liantsoa.wordpress.com, vololonirina.wordpress.com, vonona.wordpress.com
learn to open an email account then blog
And finally BOMBS blogging contest has crown 2 Foko bloggers as best in Culture (Moonlight), Vita Gasy and Teny Gasy (Avylavitra). Congratulations to the winners and Thanks to the jurys and readers who helped Foko organise this 2nd edition. You can follow daily updates from Foko community on Netvibes http://netvibes.com/foko, Facebook and Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/foko_madagascar/
Great job guys. Keep it up 🙂
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