Monthly Archives: December 2008

Back to work!

By theresa | Published: December 26, 2008
Client sends email late on Christmas Eve. Client is angry when, at 8am on the 26th, his seventh round of revision requests isn’t integrated yet. People Online works on a fixed rate system because local businesses don’t trust us to be honest about reporting our hours. And we like it that way. Not having [...]
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Merry Christmas

By theresa | Published: December 24, 2008
NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM Bertrand: I want you to kill it. Me: I’m not sure I’m strong enough to do it cleanly. Bertrand: Have you ever killed your own dinner? Me: I am a harbringer of death … to chickens anyway. Bertrand: I don’t believe you. Me: *brandishes a knife* BRING IT SANTA CLAUSE!!!! Apparantly, early this morning, our landlord had [...]
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Black Friday in Benin

By theresa | Published: December 19, 2008
Today is Benin’s last real working day before the New Year. And of course, you should understand that, as Christmas is an entire season in the States, the New Year actually lasts several weeks here. Although it’s a Friday, and technically, Monday and Tuesday are still business days, the party starts today. [...]
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Why is the Afrigator site only available in English?

By theresa | Published: December 18, 2008
I recently found Afrigator, an aggregator for the African blogosphere. Actually, I found it a long time ago, but just recently created an account. I’m not only jumping back into blogging myself, but also working to encourage blogging and bloggers here in Benin, and Afrigator’s a great tool. Right now, there isn’t [...]
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Prix RFI – Reporters sans frontières – OIF 2008

By theresa | Published: December 11, 2008
Virgil Houessou , journalist at L’événement Précis, one of our client newspapers, recently won the Prix RFI – Reporters sans frontières – OIF 2008 for print journalism for two articles he’d written concerning children’s rights here in Benin. The prize is very simple: an annual competition to discover and encourage journalists in francophone countries [...]
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Full weekend = not so on the getting work done front

By theresa | Published: December 9, 2008
What a fantastic weekend! Saturday, Bertrand’s brother celebrated his daughter’s baptism. Then a business dinner with Cagesco-Afrique, a client of ours. (He asked us to conduct an email campaign to market the dinner; we did it in return for a minimal fee and free invites to the dinner). Then a birthday [...]
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Apparantly there are some navigation problems.

By theresa | Published: December 5, 2008
I am working on that. Right now. As you read this. Annnndddd . . . it’s fixed. COME BACK AND READ, PEOPLE!  
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