-Creating Africaincorp Media Network S.A.R.L and witnessing first hand the “professionalism” of the Ivorian administration [Ease of doing business].
-Updating our Wordpress version to 2.6 in order to support the different plugins we want/need to install.
-Enabling E-commerce on 3 out of the 7 platforms we are almost simultaneously launching.
-Establishing a partnership with a professional video producing company.
-Establishing a partnership with a local law firm, the Kouassi Law firm [Two more firms are in negotiation] you can contact them at the following Email.
-Creating a presence on major internet/Web 2.0 properties to create a cloud effect, allowing us to stretch our flow of information/brand/partners brands beyond AMN’s properties,thus finding ourselves wherever the audience might be. Find us [among other places]@ Youtube,Twitter,Flickr,SecondBrain,Facebook,Vimeo,Hi5,Myspace,Googlereader,Dailymotion,LibraryThing.
Do not worry; appropriate designs would accommodate these properties to our taste and business needs.
We should have in the coming days, some Video interviews and reportages uploaded mainly to our Vimeo, Viddler and Youtube accounts. Do not forget to always check out our Flick page where we are uploading pictures of Businesses in Ivory Coast, Websites screenshots, models and much more.
-Listing and getting to make the rounds of sponsors for each of our properties. We will see how it goes. Our doors remain open to all companies even you are based outside of the Ivory Coast market. Do not forget our targeted audience is regional and global.
-Opening an account with Sedo as AMN considers entering the web property speculation market. Here is a list of Domain registration bodies for Africa Web Estate;Rwanda,Cote d’Ivoire,Ghana,Mauritius,Morocco,Senegal,Sudan,Tanzania,Uganda,Zambia,Kenya
Products that might be of good use to you: Tubemogul, Calais API, Calais marmoset, Elance, Guru, Timetoast, HI5 API, Whois, NPR API.
Would like to thank the collaborators I am working with
Webmaster extraordinaire: John Lee
Photographer/Creative Director/Illustrator: Paul Sika
Graphic Designer: Koffi Olivier
Personal assistant: Djakoure Laetitia
Communication and Marketing Supervisor: Amuah Liame [ also works at VipNet]
Lawyer: Kouassi Marie Pascale [+225 20 22 35 23]
and people that gave good tips and advise along the way, Kouamouo Theophile and Kouamouo Nadine[ They produce (in French) two very introspective blogs , the first offering commentaries and analysis on the Social/political life in Ivory Coast and the second smart reflections on the marketing sector in Ivory Coast] Check for the Blog publishing system they have created ,called Ivoir-blog.com.