maneno

Maneno was a blogging application powered by PHP, Smarty, and MySQL with content management capabilities. Initially released in October, 2008, it focused on creating a multi-theme, multi-author, multi-lingual system that works in a hosted setting [1]. The name Maneno means 'words' in Swahili and the site focused on having low latency/filesize options to make it fast to load on low bandwidth connections [2]. Additionally, it had an architecture that allowed for heavy customization by end users.
The core of the system was envisioned after a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2008 by two of the founders. They realized that while trying to write articles from the country via VSAT connections, the connection speeds proved incredibly slow and discouraging for not only them, but anyone striving to pursue citizen journalism endeavors [3]. Additionally it was shown that the language spheres of Africa had nearly no crossover between one another. Taking these issues into account and coming to the conclusion that no current blogging system adequately addressed them, this entirely new platform for blogging was created to serve the African blogging community.
Maneno was available in Bambara, English, Spanish, French, Fula, Swahili, Lingala, Portuguese, and Zulu. The available languages covered all of the lingua franca languages of Africa as well as a selection of large local African languages that were gradually added to. The site worked in allowing a user to be able to view and interact with the site in any one of the languages available for the interface as well as being able to translate articles and sections of the site via a crowdsourcing method [4].
In August 2010, Maneno announced that would be scaling back their extensive social media outreach initiatives to focus on developing the core technology of the site [5] and as of 2014, the site is now inactive.
The Board of Directors were a group of bloggers and technology enthusiasts working to expand the platform and reach out to new bloggers. Members were: Rebecca Wanjiku [6], Elia Varela Serra, Saul Wainright, and Miquel Hudin.

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  1. realMamy

    Kama ungewahi ungepona...... Kama ungewahi ningekusaidia..... ni Moja kati ya maneno yanayoumiza sana

    Kuchelewa ni adui mkubwa wa mafanikio na afya. Watu wengi wameponzwa na kusema "baadaye". Nitaenda baadaye hospitali, baadaye nitaomba msaada, baadaye nitaomba, baadaye nitarekebisha mahusiano yangu. Lakini "baadaye" nyingi huwa haziji. Unapokutana na shida ndipo unakumbuka watu na fursa...
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  3. Mshana Jr

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  4. MFALME WETU

    Ni maneno gani ukikuta mtu kakomenti humu jukwaani unajua kabisa huyu kavurugwa na maisha?

    Ciao, Kuna baadhi ya watu humu jukwaani wamevurugwa na maisha kwa iyo wasikusumbue akili. Utawajua kwa hizi komenti 👇 "Jiandae urudi shule" "Kwan shule zimefungwa?" "Hama apo kwa shemeji yako 😁" "Unahitaji kumeza dawa zako" "Tafuta hela" "Njoo pm" "Mwanaume mzima unawaza mapenzi?"...
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    Kwa maneno haya tatizo sio katiba mpya !

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  6. Baba mtakatifu91

    Andika maneno matamu kwa mwenza wako

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  7. Dr Arshavin

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  8. R

    CAG Mstaafu, Profesa Mussa Assad: Sikusema Bunge ni dhaifu, hayo yalikuwa maneno ya Ndugai

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  9. Fbn

    Kuna maneno mufti zuberi alishawahi sema kuwa samia kaandikwa kwenye quruan.

    Kuna kiwango kikipitiliza cha kujipendekeza mpaka kinakosekana cha kujipendekeza. Kuna siku mufti zuberi akiitisha wanahabari na mnukuu maneno yake kuwa samia kaandikwa kwenye quruan raisi wa tanzania. Cha kujiuliza ni hii Quruan ambayo ijawahi kuchezewa wala kubadilishwa. Ila cha kushangaza...
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  11. M

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    Watanganyika endeleeni kupaza Sauti ya Utaifa ya Tanganyika. Kadri Wazanzibari wanavyojibu ndio mpasuko ndani ya Jamii unaongezeka, sikiliza kwa makini huyu Sheikh anayozungumza alafu useme kwa nini kusiwepo na Serikali ya Tanganyika. CCM mjibuni huyu Sheikh.
  12. Crocodiletooth

    Kwa upande wetu wana CCM, kiongozi akishatamka maneno haya huyo Habari yake imekwisha!..

    Kila ninapojaribu kuwa tafakari wana chadema huwa nakosa majibu ya kimsingi kabisa,kwanza kiongozi wa namna hii hata mbingu zimeshamkataa,hakika!
  13. A

    Tumia haya maneno Manne kwenye matangazo yako ili kuwashishi wateja wako wachukue hatua fulani

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  18. Q

    US na EU zimesema, vita ya maneno na matamko imekwisha sasa ni vitendo

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  19. U

    Hebu acha ushamba wa kusema eti 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘄 Sema SHE has a doctorate in Law!

    Watanzania bwana maneno mengi lakini lugha ya kiingereza ni mtihani mkubwa sana kwenu ! Kwa taarifa yako Ukishasema ana 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 basi maana yake tayari anayo elimu ya juu kabisa ya kiwango cha shahada ya tatu yaani (PhD!) Acheni ujuaji
  20. A

    Jinsi Ya Kumshawishi mtu afanye kitu unachokitaka kwenye Matangazo Yako, ujumbe wako nk kwa kutumia maneno haya matano

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