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Adeolu Akinyemi
November 19, 2010

Death Before Life!


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My blog is back from it’s longest break ever. Interestingly, I did not give myself as much reason to panic as I have done in the past. While I hoped for the best and desired the best, I somehow had gotten to that place in my heart where I was willing to start again from scratch. You might not understand it, but it was like Abraham on the mount going with a resolve to sacrifice is son, knowing that God would provide an alternative, either before or after. If you know how emotionally attached I am to this blog, and how much of my years it has consumed, you will understand. I had however gotten to the point where I knew, that even if it did not come back to live, there was something great ahead that it needed to give way to. It dawned on me afresh, that if the seed of grain does not fall to the ground and die, it abides alone, but that if it dies, the comeback to live will be with abundance.

If anything in your life seems to be dying don’t lose faith. If God seems to be testing you with something you hold dear, don’t lose heart. If it seems that your business is experiencing a low time, don’t lose hope. The process of growth is usually preceded by a decline-the seeds first die before they sprout. Take heart and be of good courage your great days are here. That’s exactly the way it’s going to be on this site starting from this coming week. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
October 23, 2010

Strategic Bloggers Conference


In the last 2 months, I have had a surge in requests from corporate organizations to attend various events. Interestingly I discovered that the common theme with all these corporates was blogging, and the desire to explore social media possibilities. It was in order to create some structure to the industry, and ensure that we can form an alliance or association that helps us all achieve more and together create the third alternative, that we held the strategic bloggers conference. MTN was so gracious to single handedly sponsor the meeting. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
November 17, 2008

Is this Deoluakinyemi.com?


Hello Friend, thanks for all your contributions – reading, visiting, commenting, sharing, printing, forwarding e.t.c that you have made. All this has helped www.deoluakinyemi.com get to where it is today. This is still the same www.deoluakinyemi.com, only now the picture is more recent, the theme is completely locally made, and it’s Celebrating 3yrs of blogging history.

We are however not stopping here… we are going on, and planning to be bigger and better. I can’t do it alone still, it will be with your help and your support. So I’m using this opportunity to thank you, and to ask you for your continued support. It pays to change things once in a while, that way we can rekindle our excitement of having something new, and we can get fired to do more and more.

First of all, I’ll need your comments on this new look, it’s still work in progress, so your comments will surely add some value. I’ll appreciate every comment, great, good, bad and ugly. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
November 14, 2008

How I Started Blogging


I usually write my titles before I start writing. The titles usually motivate me to write. Looking up at this title today, and seeing what lies ahead of me, I know that this must be a lot briefer than it should be.

Right now I’m in Ikeja, I’ll be in Maryland by 3pm, and I need to be in the UK for a meeting tomorrow morning – Billionaires in Training. I need to also be back almost immediately as I have other meetings and engagments all over the place. I really desire to write everyday, this is my ideal, but atimes things just swing into accelarated mode, that I catching my breath is a struggle. Blogging is still a first love for me, I feel like telling the whole world to join me online as well, and let’s position ourselves as Nigeria’s New Media.

Tomorrow will make it exactly 3yrs after I made my first. 3 sentences post on blogosphere. I remember starting then, going on for about 3 days then having a 5 months break before I posted again. In those 5 months, I could very much have stopped, but somehow, I kept getting reminders like this post, and decided to go for it. Today, I’m 1 blogger, with about 450 posts, 9000 comments, and 400,000 visitors. I didn’t know how powerful having a blog was, until I gave it a good shot. Today, it’s helped me to achieve a lot, and if you digest this history lesson, and take a few tips from it, it might help you too. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
September 21, 2008

Nigeria Bloggers Conference Vs 1


History was made today, as at the same time Nigerian Bloggers gathered together in Lagos, Nigeria on the possibility of collaborating and increasing the general knowledge of the community, a blog world and new media expo was taking place in Las Vegas. I was shocked to discover that this worldwide bloggers conference had 200 facilitators of repute and thousands of bloggers and tons of corporate sponsorship. We were about 80 in number today, and we had a fun time together. The room was decorated in with New Nigeria Club banners, and the ever supportive team of Generis staff (Emore Ogho, Abiola Akinyemi, Ola Daramola, Seun Afolabi, Temitope Akinyemi, Ekwu Osodi, David Bernad, Charles Ugbomeh, Mayowa Oloyede, Lolu Daniels) made the event an organizational success.

We had 5 facilitators, Anu Oluwadare, Gbenga Aijotan, Olumide Alabi, Gbenga Sesan and My humble self (Adeolu Akinyemi). We had brief intro’s on different topic areas, and somehow waltzed into and open ended question and answer session. I did the intro, explaining the motivation behind the meeting, while one facilitator after the other talked about different aspects of blogging and how we can better leverage on this tool, to create immense value for ourselves and our country. We all seemed unanimous in our desire for an industry with standard that represents all of us. We shared passionately about how we can move the industry forward and shared thoughts on logical next steps for the Nigerian Bloggosphere. We also spoke about an opportunity that is about to be unveiled shortly that will take blogging in Nigeria to the next level.

Here are snippets of blogging excerpts from within the event… Continue reading →

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