Becoming The Muse

If you were having coffee with me I would be happy to have you visit my tangle of words. Have a seat and make yourself at home, put your feet up. I know I write best with my feet up. Are you a Lord Of The Rings fan? Yeah, we wont be talking about that Fellowship.

Around this time last week I had just finished taking a social media crash course and I would be busy with a presentation for the Afrobloggers Blogging Fellowship where I would be taking our second cohort through Blogging 101.

As I was preparing my speaker notes to facilitate the Blogging 101 Course that kickstarts the @Afrobloggers #AbFellowship2023 I completed the @SemrushAcademy Social Media Marketing Crash Course… 🥳🥳
I think I am ready to meet our second cohort of Blogging Fellows class of 2023 pic.twitter.com/kxwYZWbas2

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) May 8, 2023

It went swimming well, if the feedback can be trusted. Kind of reminded me of how an air hostess can appear calm serving smiles, refreshments and reassuring words while the aircraft is experiencing turbulence and someone is shouting we are all going to die… hmmm a bit much? Ok, how about a duck that seems calm above the surface of pond but below the surface it paddles furiously.

If you are having coffee with me, I would tell you that those familiar with the Zimbabwean situation know that we are experiencing acute electricity shortage and now networks seem to have joined in the bandwagon. Off the bat you would never imagine that electricity outage should affect internet connectivity right? But then where do you think signal towers get their power from? So when there’s no power the network gets unreliable.

I half suspect service providers are now just taking advantage to deliver substandard service and blame it on the electricity situation and the forex price and rate which makes it expensive to procure necessary support infrastructures. Anyway amidst all that crazyness I managed to talk about my passion while using my phone’s camera flash as a light ha!

The fellows had an amazing session with @Beatonm5
There is a lot of learning and re-learning when it comes to Blogging. #AbFellowship2023 pic.twitter.com/DYQy1MDZe0

— AfroBloggers (@AfroBloggers) May 8, 2023

If you are having coffee with me I would tell you that the past week has been quite an exciting affair each week day looking forward to see what the facilitators have to share… Crazy thing about blogging, just like in life, you never stop learning.

Denzel facilitated a course on Social Media, Brenda Nakandi took Choosing your niche and Dayo Moyo talked about Podcasting. This is the final week of The Fellowship and on the lineup there’s SEO with Lah_Joel and Vlogging  with Hannah wellness with Tikia and building an audience with Pollet.

One interesting thing I have learnt over my blogging journey is that sometimes all you need is someone who will tell you, go for it, otherwise you will spend a lot of time wondering when you will be good enough to start and that’s kinda why I am known as Uncle Of Bloggers in the blogging circles cause I will be there asking what are you waiting for?.

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that a network provider treated us to an evening of free internet to make up for the connectivity challenges… but there was one small catch, they only announced this wonderful news a day later that oh by the way yesterday we offered you free data yesterday…

Econet be like that friend who will say, "hey I wanted to treat you to a good time yesterday but I couldnt find you."
Then you ask "Did you call or text" and they are like, "Nope"
Then you suggest "How about we do that today?" and they say "Too late the offer was for yesterday." https://t.co/vlqAyGVkB5 pic.twitter.com/3ZoyPIijxQ

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) May 12, 2023

I am sure you are thinking the admin team must have been drunk to send that awkwardly phrased text notification above. You know who else is drunk? Whoever is in charge of setting the black market rate, its been legit going crazy. Consequently prices of basically everything are just going through the roof… The government has tried to announced a new cocktail of measures to try and stabilise the Zimbabwe Dollar.

I schemed through the document and something of interest is that alongside the Gold Coins we now have Gold Backed Digital Tokens. And speaking about Gold, remember the Gold Mafia? Well, that case has been put to rest, the FIU says there’s no evidence of laundering activities. The End.

Oh and elections are set for August. I think I would make a great president but I dont think I would want to president, which would make me the best kind of leader… Next year I will be old enough to be a presidential candidate ^_^

If you were having coffee with me, I would say am sure you know I have a fascination with AI and tech right, I mean I did attend a tech event just the other weekend but that’s not the point. Point is I entered a submission into a competition on AI art themed The future of money even though it did not have the friendliest of Terms and Conditions.  Check them out below and tell me your thoughts.

I have reservations but lets see if I win, show my tweet some love 😎

The Future Of Money…

Well, I bet they will be pulling up hologram archives from my blog to learn about how it all started.@Inn_Bucks #imagINN pic.twitter.com/ynQRJiZ7aX

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) May 11, 2023

Whats been going on in your neck of the woods?

~B