Entrepreneurship is often difficult , tricky and challenging, resulting in many new enterprises and ventures failing early in their life. The success of William Nyemba's various ventures make him an outstanding example of a worth nominee for a 5,000 Point of Light Award. The mere fact of starting a venture indicates a strong will to make a difference and impact the world which one inherits in an attempt to ensure that future generations inherit a richer and better tomorrow.
This is the second article which is part of a series in the celebration and nomination of Zimbabwe born Banker, Financier and Pioneer William Nyemba for a 5000 POL Lifetime Achievement Award. This is in recognition of the role he has played in setting up 3 Banks and in general advancement of the African Brand of successful Entrepreneurs.
An entrepreneur is generally defined as a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. He is an ambitious leader who combines forces of production such as land, labor, and capital to create and market new goods or services which improves the general quality of life.
Whilst Nyemba's achievements may appear easy and routine in reality they are remarkable as they were achieved by a man who did not inherit any particular wealth or capital to lay a foundation for his business ventures. Nyemba is a pioneering first generation entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings to the height of the corporate world of big business through determination, focus, skill and vision.
The Banking on Africa's Future (BOAF) - 5,000 Points of Light (POL)" or BOAF-5,000POL Lifetime Achievement Award is in recognition of Nyemba’s contribution to Zimbabwean and African Banking and business sector and advancing the recognition of the need to allow and assist Africans to develop big businesses which fully exploit the continent’s natural resources.
The founding TRUST Bank Holdings CEO William Tapera Nyemba was chosen Zimbabwe Institute of Management (ZIM) Manager of the Year for 2001 in recognition of his leadership skills. Observers see them as being willing to accept a high level of personal, professional or financial risk to pursue opportunity.
Business entrepreneurs are widely viewed and accepted as fundamentally important in the modern Economy. They are critical in advancing the quality of life by improving services and products. Economically they power the economy through job creation ,investments and directing efficient resource allocation.
The award was conferred on him in absentia at a glittering dinner gala at a Harare hotel. Thandiwe Nyemba, on receiving the award on her husband's behalf, coined a new phrase and sent the crowd cheering when she said: "Behind every successful man there is not just a woman but a wife." This serves confirmed that besides being a successful Entrepreneur Nyemba is also a family man, father and husband. All key qualities expected in leading points of light who act as a bank of hope in their societies.
William Nyemba is an experienced banker with both local and international banking experience spanning close to 3 decades. His experience includes the successful establishing of three banks, two of which he was involved, at the level of chief executive officer (National Merchant Bank and Trust Merchant Bank).
He was a technical partner in the setting up of Ghana's flagship CAL Merchant Bank. He has helped set up various other financial services firms across the African continent including PIVOT Capital and Wilta Advisory Services.
A few articles will be published tracing Nyemba’s path to The Banking on Africa's Future (BOAF) - 5,000 Points of Light (POL)" or BOAF-5,000POL Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards are meant to celebrate African Citizens Achievements. People of African heritage or permanent residents whose life-long careers have had a significant impact on society. Individuals who have the potential to be roles model and inspire creativeness, inventiveness, spirit of service, and hope in others also qualify for the award.
Any African can qualify from social to economic entrepreneurship, the ‘BOAF-5000 POL Lifetime Achievement Award’ recognizes outstanding individuals whose pioneering spirit, fame, power, personality, accomplishments, and demonstrated creativeness and inventiveness throughout their careers has improved African society and inspired others in Africa and beyond.
Gilbert Muponda is a Co-Founder of 3MG Media . He can be reached at; www.ZimFace.com
Email: gilbert@gilbertmuponda.com . Skype ID: gilbert.Muponda
Twitter ; http://twitter.com/gmricapital
Phone: 1-416-841-5542
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
3MG Media completes ZimDaily upgrade and launches Zimbabwe Tribune
ZIMBABWE – HARARE — 3MG Media has finally completed the major system upgrade and facelift of ZimDaily.com.The ZimDaily system upgrade and facelift coincides with the launch of The Zimbabwe Tribune (Zimtribune) which is being officially launched today after several weeks of testing.Zimtribune is focused on political developments in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa with short but precise news articles to give an overview of relevant Political developments.
Whilst the site will carry a few social and economic news articles it is being developed as a specialized niche website to report on and analyze political developments.3MG Media Operations Director Munamato Maisva also confirmed that Zimbabwe’s Number One Internet Radio Station – zim NET radio has been further enhanced with the inclusion of news service in addition to its normal online radio broadcasts.
This will allow zim NET radio to offer a more comprehensive news and entertainment delivery service as it consolidates its position as Zimbabwe’s number online radio station .The launch of Zimbabwe Tribune and the system upgrade of ZimDaily marks the end of transformation of all current 3MG Media websites with new modern designs which are easily indexed by Google and other major news aggregators.
Through the enormous reach of other 3MG Media brands such as ZimDaily, Zimface, Zimbabwe Telegraph, Afrikalink, southafrica2day and GMRI the Company has access to a larger total addressable market and significant long-term growth opportunities — especially in emerging areas such as Client Corporate Identity, branding, research and delivery of high quality content.3MG Media continually explores opportunities that support our long-term strategy.
We are a customer-driven company and, as always, we will continue to evaluate and respond to customer demands to shape our product and service mix.” added Gilbert Muponda, 3MG MEDIA C.E.O.The 3MG Media long-term plan is to develop a “universal client” by combining social networking, online news, classified advertising, Web development, hosting and user friendly interactive platforms and integrated online marketing platform.
Such marketing platforms are critical for serious businesses which are looking at advertising to a targeted market niche such as that served by 3MG MEDIA brands.3MG Media and Tetemucha are currently working on Zimbabwe’s first dating site which will be launched on 1st August 2009.
3MG Media acquires Harare Tribune online Newspaper
3MG Media acquires Harare Tribune online Newspaper
3MG Media which is focused on new Media operations targeting the African market has acquired a 50% stake in the Harare Tribune (HT) online newspaper http://www.hararetribune.com/ according to 3MG Media Executives. The Executives also revealed their intention to seek a possible stock market listing for 3MG Media.
Harare Tribune is a leading source for news from home for Zimbabwean people across the globe. The newspaper is focused on in depth coverage of political, social and economic developments in Zimbabwe.
The combined entity is expected in the creation of a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and other business partners. Grace Mlambo who currently leads the Harare Tribune team will continue in that position taking additional responsibilities of coordinating content flow with other 3MG Media units .
The combination will create a more efficient company with synergies in four areas: scale economics driven by audience critical mass and increased value for advertisers; combined web designing talent to accelerate product development; operational efficiencies through elimination of redundant cost; and the ability to innovate in emerging user experiences such as online TV, video and mobile .
“The transaction will go a long way in the 3MG Media mission to simplify and revolutionize how news from Africa is delivered to the world .” Said Munamato Maisva - 3MG Media Technical and Operations Director. “The combined assets and strong services focus of these two companies will enable 3MG Media to achieve scale economics while reaching R&D critical mass to deliver innovation breakthroughs on the African news and content market,” he added.
3MG Media and its readers and visitors together, are building on a shared heritage of redefining the way people and business brands communicate, and the related vision of enabling the creation and delivery of compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices, and media.
3MG Media is seeking to build critical mass ahead of a possible stock market listing “Acquiring Harare Tribune accelerates 3MG Media's strategy of seeking a Stock Market Listing to raise the company profile and attract additional talent. Coronation Financial Services has been retained as Lead Advisors to explore the possibility of listing 3MG Media on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange or other suitable Stock Market over the next 36 months.” said 3MG CEO Gilbert Muponda.
The combined platform being created meets a broader set of customer needs than either company could address on its own. And, through the enormous reach of other 3MG Media brands such as GMRI , Zimdaily and Zimtelegraph , we have access to a larger total addressable market and significant long-term growth opportunities — especially in emerging areas client Identity ,branding, research and delivery of high quality content.
“3MG Media continually explores opportunities that support our long-term strategy.We are a customer-driven company and, as always, we will continue to evaluate and respond to customer demand to shape our product mix.” added Gilbert Muponda.
The 3MG Media long-term plan is to develop a "universal client" by combining social networking, online news, classified advertising and user friendly interactive platforms such as http://www.zimdailyforum.com/ and http://www.zimface.com/ in a single, integrated online marketing platform.
“The combination of these two great teams would enable us to rapidly deliver a broad range of reliable and wider content to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own.”
The Zimbabwean and African online advertising market is growing at a very fast pace which creates additional opportunities for niche based African online publishers and infrastructure owners such as 3MG Media.. The resulting benefits of scale along with the associated capital costs for advertising platform providers make this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.
The company will continue to make key management announcements as its organizational structure evolves.
3MG MEDIA IS BORN!
3MG MEDIA PROFILE & PRESS STATEMENT
Entrepreneur Gilbert Muponda has acquired a 50 % stake in Zimdaily Media ,which runs Zimbabwe’s top daily online news site http://www.zimdaily.com/ . Zimdaily is Zimbabwe’s biggest independent newspaper. Zimdaily Media operates Zimbabwe’s other leading media brands including http://www.zimface.com/ and Zimbabwe’s number one online radio http://www.zimnetradio.com/ .
The zimdaily media group has been immediately strengthened by the addition of http://www.zimtelegraph.com/ a reliable, focused and in depth news website targeted at the Global audience . http://www.zimtelegraph.com/ is going live today.
The acquisition by Muponda has resulted in the creation of a new media group combining 15 web sites with combined daily hits of approximately 2 million, making it a formidable advertising channel and infrastructure, one of the biggest such operations in Africa. The new group will operate under the 3MG Media Limited brand. Zimdaily founder Munamato Maiswa becomes the Operations and Technical Director and Gilbert Muponda will be Chief Executive Officer. They will both sit on the Group’s Editorial Board.
The creation of 3MG Media seeks to establish a leading multi-media content service provider, online marketing systems technology developer and one of the largest electronic distributors of African news, events and information globally. The Company currently operates the following units :
http://www.zimdaily.com/
http://www.zimdaily.com/
3MG Media is blessed with a highly diverse group of committed professionals, dedicated to deliver trustworthy and reliable news. We find strength in the diversity of our staff .Our team has accrued collectively over 15 years of experience in generating value through Internet based driven enterprises.
We have experienced marketers, web site developers, technicians, editors, and accomplished journalists. The 3MG Media Limited business team represents more than 50 years in the fields of journalism, investment banking, advisory services, accounting, marketing, advertising and information technology.
The Group will rely on new technology and skill which will allow 3MG Media Limited to operate with a fraction of the staff and budget of media companies of similar scope and size. The 3MG Media business enterprise model is based on a 6-level revenue stream of marketing, branding, advertisements and transactions, subscriptions, information sales and technology services which include website development and hosting for external clients.
As a reader and visitor you can directly help develop a strong continental and global voice platform, an alternative for Zimbabwe and Africa by supporting the various 3MG Media brands which will be soon listed on http://www.3mgmedia.com/ and www.3mgmedia.ca
Thank you for your support and encouragement, we appreciate.
Munamato Maiswa Gilbert MupondaEmail ; Maiswa@3mgmedia.com Email ; gilbert@gilbertmuponda.comSkype ; zimdaily Skype ; gilbert.muponda
Munamato Maiswa Gilbert MupondaEmail ; Maiswa@3mgmedia.com Email ; gilbert@gilbertmuponda.comSkype ; zimdaily Skype ; gilbert.muponda
3MG Media launches Zimbabwe Citizenship Journalism programme
3MG Media launches Zimbabwe Citizenship Journalism programme
3MG MEDIA has launched Zimbabwe’s first Citizen Journalism programme with immediate effect. The Global trend is that those nations which are democratically challenged like Zimbabwe gain immensely from Citizen Journalism as it provides accurate, unfiltered news .
The initial phase is targeted at Students within Zimbabwe Universities ,Polytechnics and Technical Colleges who are expected to file short but accurate stories regularly. Each participating student will get a monthly allowance of US$ 100 per month.
Zimbabwe Telegraph will be the central distribution site. The other 3MG Media community newspaper web sites be part of the distribution channel. These include
www.ZimDaily.com
www.zimTelegraph.com www.harareTribune.com
www.zimTribune.com
www.southafrica2day.com
www.afrikalink.com
www.zimNetRadio.com
The idea behind citizen journalism is to encourage people without professional journalism training to use the tools of modern technology (cell phones, laptops, internet etc) and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. Recently Zimbabwe had a cholera outbreak in which accurate information was hardly available. Citizen Journalists are expected to play a leading role in uncovering such humanitarian tragedies as and when they occur.
Citizen Journalists will be able to provide first hand and real accounts of the reality on the ground. Additionally, readers can fact-check articles from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias at www.zimDailyforum.com which are discussion forums. Alternatively a member of the public can witness police brutality and may snap a digital photo and post to Zimdaily for broad casting . Other newsworthy events happening in local communities such as Mabvuku , Budiriro, Mzilikazi or Dangamvura can be informally recorded and posted online to tell the real Zimbabwe story .
3MG Media is distributing 5 cameras and cell phones to the first members participating in the initial phase. Other members of the public with own equipment are expected to send in news pieces and pictures which will speak thousands of words.
Citizen journalism, is also called public or participatory journalism or democratic journalism, is the act of non-professionals "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information,".This is exciting particularly for a nation in transition like Zimbabwe. It will give Zimbabweans an opportunity to interact and participate in information and events that shape their daily lives.
3MG MEDIA Citizen Journalism programme will be different from serious investigative Journalism. An investigative journalist may spend a considerable period researching and preparing a report, sometimes months or years, whereas a typical daily or weekly news reporter writes items concerning immediately available news.
Citizen journalists are "the people formerly known as the audience," who "were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another. 3MG MEDIA Citizen Journalism will change all this, our readers will become an integral part of our news gathering efforts.
Citizen journalists may be activists within the communities they write about. This has drawn some criticism from traditional media institutions such as, which have accused proponents of public journalism of abandoning the traditional goal of 'objectivity'.
Many traditional journalists view citizen journalism with some skepticism, believing that only trained journalists can understand the exactitude and ethics involved in reporting news. Citizen Journalism seeks to encourage reader participation therefore it must be encouraged and nurtured.
3MG MEDIA has launched Zimbabwe’s first Citizen Journalism programme with immediate effect. The Global trend is that those nations which are democratically challenged like Zimbabwe gain immensely from Citizen Journalism as it provides accurate, unfiltered news .
The initial phase is targeted at Students within Zimbabwe Universities ,Polytechnics and Technical Colleges who are expected to file short but accurate stories regularly. Each participating student will get a monthly allowance of US$ 100 per month.
Zimbabwe Telegraph will be the central distribution site. The other 3MG Media community newspaper web sites be part of the distribution channel. These include
www.ZimDaily.com
www.zimTelegraph.com www.harareTribune.com
www.zimTribune.com
www.southafrica2day.com
www.afrikalink.com
www.zimNetRadio.com
The idea behind citizen journalism is to encourage people without professional journalism training to use the tools of modern technology (cell phones, laptops, internet etc) and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. Recently Zimbabwe had a cholera outbreak in which accurate information was hardly available. Citizen Journalists are expected to play a leading role in uncovering such humanitarian tragedies as and when they occur.
Citizen Journalists will be able to provide first hand and real accounts of the reality on the ground. Additionally, readers can fact-check articles from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias at www.zimDailyforum.com which are discussion forums. Alternatively a member of the public can witness police brutality and may snap a digital photo and post to Zimdaily for broad casting . Other newsworthy events happening in local communities such as Mabvuku , Budiriro, Mzilikazi or Dangamvura can be informally recorded and posted online to tell the real Zimbabwe story .
3MG Media is distributing 5 cameras and cell phones to the first members participating in the initial phase. Other members of the public with own equipment are expected to send in news pieces and pictures which will speak thousands of words.
Citizen journalism, is also called public or participatory journalism or democratic journalism, is the act of non-professionals "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information,".This is exciting particularly for a nation in transition like Zimbabwe. It will give Zimbabweans an opportunity to interact and participate in information and events that shape their daily lives.
3MG MEDIA Citizen Journalism programme will be different from serious investigative Journalism. An investigative journalist may spend a considerable period researching and preparing a report, sometimes months or years, whereas a typical daily or weekly news reporter writes items concerning immediately available news.
Citizen journalists are "the people formerly known as the audience," who "were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another. 3MG MEDIA Citizen Journalism will change all this, our readers will become an integral part of our news gathering efforts.
Citizen journalists may be activists within the communities they write about. This has drawn some criticism from traditional media institutions such as, which have accused proponents of public journalism of abandoning the traditional goal of 'objectivity'.
Many traditional journalists view citizen journalism with some skepticism, believing that only trained journalists can understand the exactitude and ethics involved in reporting news. Citizen Journalism seeks to encourage reader participation therefore it must be encouraged and nurtured.
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