Author: Lulu Akaki

We are happy to announce that The Db Agency, the leading strategic Transmedia agency in Kenya, has confirmed its sponsorship of the BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards. Speaking as he confirmed the sponsorship, Christian Bitti, the CEO of the The Db Agency remarked “We are glad to sponsor the Bloggers Association of Kenya Awards to propel…

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) is a community organization that represents a group of Kenyan online content creators and that seeks to empower online content creation and improve the quality of content created on the web. The Kenyan blogosphere has come a long way. As blogging grows in Kenya, BAKE came up with the…

We are happy to announce that East Africas Premier jobs website, N-Soko Jobs, a division of the Nation Media Group, has confirmed its sponsorship of the BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards. Speaking at the announcement Agastee Khante, the General Manager of the Nation Media Groups Digital Division had this to say, “We are very glad to…

We are glad to announce the judging panel for this year’s Kenyan Blog Awards. It’s a mix of indivinduals drawn from the blogging and media community. Erik Hersman Erik Hersman Erik Hersman is a technologist and blogger who lives in Nairobi. He is a co-founder of Ushahidi, a free and open source platform for crowdsourcing information and visualizing data, the…

We are happy to announce that integrated telecommunications service provider Orange has confirmed its sponsorship of the BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards. Orange will be a category sponsor at the event, which seeks to recognize excellence amongst bloggers. Orange Making the announcement, the company’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Maureen Sande, says that Orange is working strategically…

Philips Electronics, a company focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovation has announced its support of the upcoming Kenyan Blog awards. Commenting on the sponsorship, Renu Sharma, the Business Development Manager Sub-cluster Middle East & Africa Philips Consumer Lifestyle had this to say: Having delivered meaningful innovations for over 120 years, we at Philips are proud…

We are happy to announce that mobile communications company Nokia has confirmed its sponsorship of the BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards, the annual award that recognizes excellence amongst bloggers. Nokia is sponsoring the “Best New Blog” category. The category seeks to reward outstanding new blogs that were set up from January 24th 2012  to the closing date of…

The deadline for the submissions phase has been extended to February 15th 2013. This is in response to an overwhelming number of submissions in the last few days. As a result, the judging phase will also be adjusted and will run from February 18th 2013 to February 28th 2013. The rest of the key dates will not change. The…

We are happy to announce that global electronics giant Samsung has once again extended their sponsorship of the BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards, an annual award that recognizes best practices amongst bloggers. Confirming the sponsorship, Samsung Electronics East African HHP Business Leader Mr. Manoj Changarampatt said, “Samsung’s Brand is all about all about leadership, innovation, relationships and…

The submission phase of The Kenyan Blog awards is now open and it will last until February 1st 2013. We invite everyone to nominate their favourite blogs in each category. Follow this linkwww.bloggers.or.ke/awards/submit to nominate blogs. Email [email protected] if you have any query. Voting will close on 1st May 2013. Below are the categories in which you can…