ZOD Memorial Library Launches Free eLibrary in Lagos

Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Library (ZODML) based in Lagos has recorded another first in Nigeria. This private library recently inaugurated her elibrary. This is in addition to all other services offered by the Library. 


According to Mrs. Ifeoma Esiri, Co-Chair and member of ZODML’s Board of Trustees, six primary schools and four secondary schools within Ikoyi, Lagos State have been equipped with books, computers and other facilities free of charge. Mrs. Esiri noted at the launch of the online library, that the project was central to the achievement of ZODML’s mission.


ZODML, a non-for-profit organisation, was set up in memory of Z.O Dibiaezue  to provide students and general readers access to resources offline and online for education purposes.


Other dignatories present at the launch include Mrs. Ayo Obe, a civil rights crusader and ZODML trustee. 


The online library coul dbe accessed via http://www.zodml.org/ and it is available 24/7 to all Nigerians free of charge. On the website is a catalogue of past question papers for high school students and a variety of writings by Nigerian authors.


I recommend this elibrary to all students and more importantly to public libraries to emmulate. This institution indeed need a lot of support to create more important in the society.

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Get All The News from U.S. Mission in Nigeria in One Place

The U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria has a great Dashboard for all her public-oriented information. The Dashboard gives a quick access to current information coming out the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria including Press Releases, Ambassador's Speeches, Programmes and Events.


There are different tabs loaded on the Dashboard:

• There is a tab on the Information Resource Centers (IRCs) tagged IRC Books: Search for Books available in the two IRCs; Check the procedure in becoming a a member...
• Free Virtual Libraries: Access eLibraryUSA from here. eLibraryUSA contains 30 commercial databases accessible to registered members of the IRCs. There is also a list of some other sources of authoritative materials on this tab.
• U.S. Government News: There is a tab tagged US Govts. That is a page you could get up-to-the minute news from Whitehouse.gov and State Department's websites and Blog.
• Educational Programs and others: There are tabs relating to U.S. Mission's Education Exchange programmes such as Fulbright, Humphrey Fellowship; There are links to EducationUSA: How to study in the United States. 
• Check also the American Corner tab to see locations and links to how to search for their resources online. "In American Corners you will find the collected literature of America’s best writers; American society, culture, policies, politics, history and business; how to study in the U.S., visa information, videos, facts and statistics, and the Internet.  You will also receive help in using the resources. American Corners are open to everyone in the community."
• New Jobs: Are you looking for jobs? There are tonnes of jobs listed on this tab ranging from jobs at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission (Abuja and Lagos) , United Nations and Nigeria. Ask those who are looking for jobs to visit this Dashboard.
• There are links to General News, Subject Portals, General Search Engines and Photos
• In case you will like to give them some feedback about the Dashboard, there is a link right on the dashboard.

Would you love to create your own Dashboard, for you or your institution? Then, join the membership of their IRCs at http://www.tinyurl.com/ircregistration. As a member, you may be invited to participate in their flagship training on "How to Keep on top of the News"

However, you best source for all the news from the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria is http://ingeria.usembassy.gov/ If you have any issue to discuss with the organization, please visit this page.

Now, This is One Haven of Social Tools

Today, I stumbled on this lovely site and I thought I should share it with all my folks. SocialBrite: Social Tools for social change is the website. According to the site: "The Socialbrite team is here to help nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, social enterprises, universities, and cause organizations use social media to advance your organization’s mission."  There are tabs on Tutotials, Videos, Free Reports, Conferences.. However, there a link to tons of Web 2.0 productivity tools which have been reviewed. They suggested that you should "begin with this directory of Web 2.0 productivity tools or the Social Actions toolset." Then read the posts written on various topics of interest below. They requested you to "visit their Sharing Center for additional resources."

• 27 ways to increase engagement on your Facebook page
• 6 creative ways to use photos to increase engagement on your Facebook page
• 8 tips on how to write awesome blog posts
• 10 secrets to video storytelling success
• 7 tips & cheat sheets to help you implement the new Timeline
• 5 steps to set up your measurement program
• 5 advocacy lessons from the Kony 2012 video
• 11 ways Facebook Timeline changes your content strategy
• 7 ways to drive Facebook visitors to your site
• 6 ways to tell your stories with data
• 17 ways to revive your organization's Facebook Page
• 45 hashtags for social change
• 14 surefire ways to engage Facebook users
• 5 tips on writing knockout social media content
• 5 essential Facebook applications for nonprofits
• 6 reasons to use Flickr for your next media campaign
• 10 great get-down-to-business Twitter apps for nonprofits
• 12 ways Facebook users can 'like' your nonprofit Facebook Page
• 14 ways to improve your email open rate
• 12 ways to develop a loyal community for your blog
• 24 best practices for nonprofits using Twitter
• 12-step guide on how to live-tweet an event

Read This Article on "Monitoring Tools on The 'Net"

You know me, I work round the clock to fish out great resources for you. Today, I got this beautiful article titled: 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools by JD Lasica on SocialBrite. You could download the one for 10 tools pdf file for here. The list include:

• Wildfire
• Social Mention
• Google Reader
• BlogPulse
• Alltop
• Hootsuite
• Google Alerts
• Addict-o-matic
• MonitorThis
• Comment Sniper
• coComment
• BoardReader
• Google Trends

Dig for Resources with Digg

According to the website, "Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community." It is more like other social bookmarks. This is ideal starting point for your research especially if you do not have a clue of where to go. 


To test this out, I did a search for resources on Research and Ph.D and got 3,970 in the result. Yet another one of tutorials and education (2177).


Digg is also a good channel for news. I did a search on Nigeria and see what I got.

Found a Beautiful Lounge for Tutorials

Are you looking for tutorials on critical tools needed for 'ruling' the web? Yes I have found one for you. It is Tutorial Lounge. From the site, it says, "Tutorial Lounge [Learn Step by Step] is a Tutorial Blog site made to house and showcase some of the best tutorials around most famous designing and development tools are Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, After Effect, 3D Max, Maya, Illustrator, Vector, Video Tutorials, Corel Draw, Audio Tutorials, Flex, jQuery, ajax, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, xHTML, CSS, Typography, Print Media and wallpapers. We publish and make roundup tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner." In addition, the site also teaches how to use Social Media tools like Twitter. Other resources available include tutorials on Blogging, Open Source i.e. Joomla, WordPress..., Videos  e.t.c. Ofcourse with lots of freebies!

Google Nigeria Web Fair 2012: You are Welcome!

GOOGLE has promised to bring together thousands of business owners for the second leg of the Get Nigerian Businesses Online (GNB0) 2012 Web Fair, taking place at the City Hall, Catholic Mission Street, in Onikan, Lagos on April 26 and 27, 2012. Intending participants should register at http://www.gnbo.com.ng/event2012

Create Nice Quizzes Using "Learn Click"

“Learn Click is a nice tool for quickly creating simple online quizzes. The format for the quizzes is fill-in-the-blank with a couple of extras that you can't add to offline quizzes. When you format your quizzes in Learn Click you have the option to add a drop-down menu from which students can select words to use in the quiz. Another nice option is the ability to add a "hint" pop-up for students to access. As the designer of the quiz you can specify what the hint is.” This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.

FUMSI Article: An app for every occasion

I invite you to read this beautiful write-up titled FUMSI Article: An app for every occasion.

People are fantastic at problem solving on the fly. I recently heard about a
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The engineers mend printing machines on organisational premises and work
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quick answer.
It would take minimal effort to build a store of photos and answers to act as
a central resource and learning tool for new engineers. It goes without saying
that it would be searchable via a mobile site or app.
For BlackBerry users, BBM is a quick, easy and free way to set up a
community. While the information exchanged cannot be captured centrally, it does
offer a very effective way to connect people to people, as thousands of
teenagers will confirm.

Send FREE SMS from Gmail in Nigeria

Just last week, during gNigeria annual workshop, Google announced this new service. What you need in order to send a FREE SMS to any MTN, Starcomms, GLO and Visafone is a FREE Gmail account .

Get started today .... Start sending FREE SMS now to your friends from your computer.

By the way there are a lot of resources available to you if you missed the summit gNigeria.

Google Adds Play to the List of Her Products

On March 6, 2012, Google announced the merger of Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into Google Play. The idea is to for you to have good time.

From the Official Google Blog "Entertainment is supposed to be fun. But in reality, getting everything to work can be the exact opposite—moving files between your computers, endless syncing across your devices, and wires…lots of wires. Today we’re eliminating all that hassle with Google Play, a digital entertainment destination where you can find, enjoy and share your favorite music, movies, books and apps on the web and on your Android phone or tablet. Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books and apps are stored online, always available to you, and you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again."

"With Google Play you can:

• Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
• Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
• Browse the world’s largest selection of eBooks
• Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles"

Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) African Conference Kicks Off in Abuja on March 19, 2012

According to the news source (Vanguard on March 3, 2012), Mr. Dele Ajisomo, the President, Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON), is quoted as saying that the conference will hold in Abuja from March 19 to March 23, 2012. About 1,000 participants are expected from Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and United States. The theme for this year is “Open Source Solutions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals.’’ Free internet services will be provided throughout the period of the conference. (Computerweekly 2012 and Vanguard 2012)

NEWS STAND: The New Satelite and Education in Nigeria

ICT park to save Nigeria $5billion (The Nation)
"Managing Director of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Tiamasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, has advocated the use of the recently launched satellite, NigComSat-1R to achieve the ‘Electronic Park’ (e-Park) project and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) initiatives of the Federal Government..." Read further at http://goo.gl/GXjJN

‘Nigeria ready for satellite-enabled e-education’ (Vanguard) February 22, 2012
"Considering that Satellite communication has always been a major backbone to the development of most advanced societies, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited Engr. Ahmed-Rufai, has said that his Nigcomsat 1R project was what Nigeria needed to achieve universal access, ICT development, backbone for social, political and economic re-engineering." Read further at http://goo.gl/lTVHI

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Free Educational Resources for Digital Production

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Google Trader: Absolutely Free Trade Zone for Nigeria

Are you in dire need of selling something? I mean without any website. Google calls it "Nigeria's marketplace for products and services." Try your hands on it, post your products, and wait for callers. What are you waiting for? Zoom now to the website and start clicking.

Record and Edit with all Audacity

"Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording & editing sounds." Used by professionals worldwide for recording and editing of audio. You could also convert into mp3.

Best Source of Learning Web Development Tools

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