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| A cross section of participants |
The Future Awards' central working committee, as
part of the pre-awards activities for the eighth season held the second edition of the Online Master
Class series.
The
event, which took place on Friday, June 28, 2013 at Prince of Anthony Hotel in Ikeja,
Lagos, aimed at enhancing the potential of future online media
entrepreneurs, and featured some of the most recognised names in the industry
including: Noble Igwe of 360nobs, Editi Ediong of Anakle, Ediong Umoh of
Nigeria News Desk, and Kingsley Ezeani of Information Nigeria.
Held
as a series of in-depth interactive sessions, some of the topics discussed were
building digits , online marketing, developing an online personality, how to
use Facebook to engage your audience and more.
“The
online market is growing at an amazing rate; people are getting on board and it
is only proper for a development brand such as The Future Project to help
educate and enlighten people on the do’s and don’ts of the online market,” said
Chude Jideonwo, the executive director of The Future Project.
“This
year in partnership with Information Nigeria, we decided to bring together some
of the best minds in the industry for what turned out to be an explosive brain
storming session in order to create social media giants that will bring
together an army of change agents in the online market.”
The
master class was organised as part of The Future Project (of which the The
Future Awards is part), in partnership with Information Nigeria.
Media
partners included Bella Naija, Channels Television, Silverbird TV, Guardian
Life, Nigeria Info, Linda Ikeji Blog, Premium Times, 360Nobs, Ladun Liadi Blog,
Information Nigeria, Jobberman and Ventures Africa. Official Media Partners are
Africa Magic, Cool FM, Wazobia FM and Y!/YNaija.com.
For
more information, visit @TFAAfrica on Twitter or the website www.thefutureafrica.com/awards.
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