Microsoft Nigeria trains journalists on Office 365, Windows 8.1
Training addressed challenges of weak technology reporting in African media.
Microsoft Nigeria on Monday trained selected journalists on the benefits of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Windows 8.1 at a one-day capacity building training for the Nigerian media.
The PR Lead for Microsoft Anglophone West Africa, Yemi Orimolade, said in Lagos that the training was designed to address challenges of weak technology reporting in African media.
“Microsoft plans to provide local journalists with the tools they require to enable them report confidently on ICT issues and use technology properly in their day-to-day activities,” he said.
He explained that Office 365 was designed to work with both touch and a mouse, and worked seamlessly in the cloud, giving the user an unmatched on and offline experience.
He said that Microsoft Windows 8.1 bought significant advantages to those who were upgrading existing PCs or purchasing new ones and came with a new look.
“This new Operating System (OS) offers improvements in performance and existing capabilities.”
More than 20 journalists drawn from major media houses in Nigeria participated in the capacity building workshop organised by Microsoft in conjunction with its Gold certified partner, Ha-Shem Network Services Ltd.
Explaining the motivation for the programme, Mr. Orimolade said, “As a technology enabling company, we believe IT capacity building contributes significantly to economic empowerment, growth and development. It will offer the appropriate skills to the media to use technology in innovative ways.”
The Dean, School of Communications, Lagos State University, Lai Oso, gave a keynote address on Bridging the gap between Technology and News Reporting.
Mr. Oso noted that audiences had moved away from being consumers of news to news producers as a result of current trends in the technology landscape.
“Journalism, in turn, has moved away from the way it used to be to a point that there is hardly any traditional media without an online version. Migration from the offline environment to the online has made it important to always update stories.”
“New technologies create challenges and opportunities and yesterday’s skills and technology are fast becoming obsolete,” he said.
The workshop discussed such topics as Big Data, One Note, Anti-Piracy, Social Media, Understanding Cloud Computing and Windows 8 and Office 365 experience.
Microsoft Nigeria on Monday trained selected journalists on the benefits of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Windows 8.1 at a one-day capacity building training for the Nigerian media.
The PR Lead for Microsoft Anglophone West Africa, Yemi Orimolade, said in Lagos that the training was designed to address challenges of weak technology reporting in African media.
“Microsoft plans to provide local journalists with the tools they require to enable them report confidently on ICT issues and use technology properly in their day-to-day activities,” he said.
He explained that Office 365 was designed to work with both touch and a mouse, and worked seamlessly in the cloud, giving the user an unmatched on and offline experience.
He said that Microsoft Windows 8.1 bought significant advantages to those who were upgrading existing PCs or purchasing new ones and came with a new look.
“This new Operating System (OS) offers improvements in performance and existing capabilities.”
More than 20 journalists drawn from major media houses in Nigeria participated in the capacity building workshop organised by Microsoft in conjunction with its Gold certified partner, Ha-Shem Network Services Ltd.
Explaining the motivation for the programme, Mr. Orimolade said, “As a technology enabling company, we believe IT capacity building contributes significantly to economic empowerment, growth and development. It will offer the appropriate skills to the media to use technology in innovative ways.”
The Dean, School of Communications, Lagos State University, Lai Oso, gave a keynote address on Bridging the gap between Technology and News Reporting.
Mr. Oso noted that audiences had moved away from being consumers of news to news producers as a result of current trends in the technology landscape.
“Journalism, in turn, has moved away from the way it used to be to a point that there is hardly any traditional media without an online version. Migration from the offline environment to the online has made it important to always update stories.”
“New technologies create challenges and opportunities and yesterday’s skills and technology are fast becoming obsolete,” he said.
The workshop discussed such topics as Big Data, One Note, Anti-Piracy, Social Media, Understanding Cloud Computing and Windows 8 and Office 365 experience.
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