Tag Archives: WordPress

Please reply – goofing around with SOCIAL WordPress Plugin

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Consider your shoulder tapped. For a new site I am working on for CISLAC Nigeria, I am experimenting with the social wordpress plugin by MailChimp which apparently pushes out posts to Facebook and Twitter and then aggregates replies back here on … Continue reading →

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Now sharing 890 Flickr Photos via Creative Commons and saidia.org

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

After the worrying discussion of the Facebook Purge over the weekend (in case you missed it, I urged my activist friends to stop using Facebook for their organizing – it’s too risky), I thought I’d turn to a more positive … Continue reading →

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Recipe: importing old WordPress posts, pages, categories and tags into your current site

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

To recover my WordPress content from 2007 I followed the steps below.  It was remarkably easy, but I was not easily able to find the documentation for doing it at wordpress.org – maybe I was too impatient.  Anyhoo, after some … Continue reading →

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Me in 2007: OLPC is a Dam Project with Bunny Ears and Blueprint for Nigerian Civil Society Election Blog

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

After setting up shop here at saidia.org again this month, I realized that there were quite a few sites still pointing to old saidia.org posts made between February and July 2007 before deciding to blog instead at Kabissa.org. I am … Continue reading →

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greenlightnigeria.org – it begins!

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

In a comment to my Blueprint for a Nigerian Civil Society Election Blog, Tim Concannon announced greenlightnigeria.org – I’m glad to see this development and hope it catches on. Congratulations SDN and IDASA! Please help spread the word and make … Continue reading →

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Audioblogging by Mobile Phone? Round 2: Nigerian Election Blog Blueprint

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

When considering a Civil Society Election Blog for Nigeria, we realized fairly quickly that it has to be possible for people to contribute to it via their mobile phones. Post via the web and e-mail, yes, but also somehow via … Continue reading →

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Kabissa is now blogging! And at the NTC!

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

Greetings, and welcome to the Kabissa blog! The Kabissa team is now blogging at http://www.kabissa.org/blog – and I for one am very excited about it. I have enjoyed having my personal blog here at saidia.org, but having a team blog … Continue reading →

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Thanks K2 for the powerful new WordPress template!

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

If you’ve been here before, you might have noticed that I’ve updated the saidia.org site design. I’ve moved to the K2 Template for its powerful new functionality. I was initially looking for a simple means for adding rotating images to … Continue reading →

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Blueprint for a Nigerian Civil Society Election Blog

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

Nigeria’s election in April promises to be full of surprises – and I am worried for the people in Nigeria and the region that it may not go well and descend the country into chaos. A Nigerian friend who should … Continue reading →

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My first blog posting by email

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Tobias Eigen

I am sending this picture of a seagull trying to catch a french fry by email. Let’s see what happens!

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