BLOGGERS in West Africa will be meeting in
Lagos next week to fine tune new strategy on how to make fortune from the
blogging industry.
The event, which is being hosted by a body
of bloggers in the region is tagged the West Africa Bloggers Conference, WBC, and aimed at Bloggers from across the West African
countries.
The two day conference, which holds at the Berkeley
Hotel Isaac John road Ikeja is designed to offer learning opportunity to young
West Africans on advanced blogging techniques, creative and branding
strategies, monetisation opportunities and structured business models and successful
digital business principles.
According to a press statement from the
organisers, the WBC will prove advantageous for Bloggers in all fields saying
that with blogging now fast becoming a lucrative business globally, WABC aims to
provide a networking opportunity for the Bloggers to meet and share their
knowledge.
Tagged WABC Lagos 2015, the event is free to
registered participant. But for space constraints only the first 350 the
bloggers to register will be sent the admission code to enter the conference
venue.
All other interested bloggers after the
first set of 350 registered participants will be encouraged to watch the live
streaming and live twitter feeds of the event
This conference is programmed into
workshops, keynote presentations, insightful power talks, collaborative round
table working sessions, and panel discussions from recognized experts in
business strategy, customer-relationship building, branding and monetisation of
social media.
Confirmed speakers at the conference include
the Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria, Bayo Adekanmbi, Managing Director,
Jumia Nigeria, Jonathan Doerr and Head of Communications, Smile Communications,
Alero Ladipo
