At a time when media companies globally are struggling to stay afloat due to high operating costs and declining revenues, Kenya’s Nation Media Group’s (NMG) digital division grew its profits (not revenues) by 12%. According to the story carried in this week’s edition of the East African Newspaper, the growth

New social media such as Twitter, Facebook , You Tube, i-report and Google are just some of the channels that have popped up in the recent past. While they are not traditionally what one may call media houses, they are in competition with media houses for consumer eyeballs and attention.

Today’s Business Daily Newspaper has an article on Kenyan businesses and professionals using social media and social networking as a marketing and service delivery channel. I was interviewed for the same by Business Daily’s Wanjiru Waithaka and I am quoted in it. You can read the article in full on