University Student Launches A Campus Social Network. Is This Kenya’s Mark Zuckerberg?
We all know how Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates launched Facebook from Harvard’s dormitory rooms. Something that started as a mere networking site for campus students grew into the World’s biggest social site making Zuckerberg a billionaire at just 23 years. Back home, a student one of the local public universities may just be the next Mark Zuckerberg thanks to his ingenuity.
Evans Kigen, a Moi University student has come up with a social network dubbed vibecampo.com in a bid to connect Kenyan students online. VibeCampo is a mishmash of highbred slang words meaning: signals or messages sent out to someone and campus respectively.
The engineering student, Evans Kigen says the platform will help improve online interactions mainly in universities and colleges. This move will bring ease to students as they build a personal brand of who they are? What they do? By showcasing their accomplishments and growing their reputation.
The idea cropped up earlier this year while reporting for 2nd semester In the Electrical and Communication Engineering faculty. Since then it has not been a walk in the park as he had to sacrifice some his classes to finish up with the project.
He faced a couple of challenges with the most recent one his Vibecampo Page which garnered 1076 likes on Facebook being hacked.
As of now Getting Users to Register is the only work pending on his shelf. When asked how it works he instructs the following:
Step 1.Go TO www.vibecampo.com
Step 2.Register Username,Password,Email Required*
Step 3.Sign In Username,Password Required*
Step 4.Upload a Profile Picture of you*
Step 5.Post a @Mention
Step 6.Use #HAshtags to Discuss a Topic eg.. use any of the following hashtags representing your institution to discover your fellow schoolmates (#UoN , #Strath, #Maseno, #MoiUni, #CUEA, #KU, #Daystar, #Utalii, #KMTC, #UoE etc..)
Step 7.Upload Pictures and share
Step 8.Share Video links from YouTube or Vimeo
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