Welcome to 2012 and we trust you all had a wonderful and super festive season. We want to express great thanks to all the visitors to our site and the many people who provided vital and priceless information in the comments section. We greatly appreciate your input in taking Lusakatimes to the level it is and we acknowledge that more needs to be done on our part.
2011 was a tricky and difficult year because of the elections that brought historical traffic spikes to the site.Our main goal was to ensure that the site remained available even in the face of heavy traffic. We are glad we were able to achieve that.
With the beginning of 2012, we don’t foresee any traffic surge,but predictable steady growth, except perhaps during the Africa Cup of Nations (If our National team makes good progress). With less focus on dealing with traffic spikes we expect to do more things to improve other aspects of the site, which were largely neglected in 2011.
Already we have started work on the mobile version of the site, which those who access the site with either iPhone or Android powered phones have noticed. We are aware of the problems people with blackberry phones are facing and are working hard to resolve that.
Our Facebook (FB) account was wrongly created as an individual profile.( Well, it was not clear at the time whether you were creating a company profile or individual profile). So, it turns out that as an individual profile you can only have 5 000 friends. 5 000 friends is undoubtedly more than the 150 recommended threshold for individual friends by experts, but as a news site, 5000 does not cut it. And that explains why most of your FB friend requests have not been attended to.
Also there seems to be a cap on the number of items you can post to the FB individual page within a certain time frame. Again that explains why not all items published on Lusakatimes makes it to our Facebook pages.
To remedy the issue, we shall be transitioning our profile from individual profile to company profile and with that we can instead have more Fans rather than friends and that number can go as high as our work allows. There might be issues in the transitioning and some friends accounts maybe be lost, but we shall issue a further update when we do that during the course of this month.
By the way , our twitter page works great, and EVERYTHING published on LT gets “twitted”. It is another way to keep track of what is happening our site. We also have plans to start a Google+ page and we shall publish the details when this is ready.
Lastly, we wish you a successful 2012 in whatever you do and look forward to your great feedback. As per LT tradition. nothing said against us in the comments is ever deleted or censored. It is a great way to learn where we need to improve.
LT Team
Congratulations for the work. Looking forward to a WP7 application as well.
LT you started well but lost it because you just copy and paste information from govt newspaper. No wonder the Watchdog is more popular. Why dont you just shut this thing and do other things
LT, employ a qualified editor please
Well done ba LT, Keep it up you are by far better than the trible site called Watch Imbwa…… Keep it clean!!!!!
I have enjoyed your news since I got to know this blog. I would advice you to keep up with the same works and remain non-partisan…HAPPY 2012!
Amazing the Twitter feeds are getting out there when they have been “Twitted”.
I’m sure you know it’s “TWEETED”.
LT YOU ARE THE BEST ESPECIALLY THAT YOU NOW ARE NOT FOCUSSED ON INTIMIDATING OUR PRESIDENT. YOU ARE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN THE WATCHDOG OR ANY OTHER NEWS BLOG. YOUR NEWS IS NOT BIASED LIKE THE WATCHDOG WHICH CENTERS ON IRRELEVANT ISSUE PUBLICATION. UPS TO YOU AND WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
You should also censor the tribal tags KOLWESTAN and BANTUSTAN. Lets have some unity between our friends the Bembas and Tongas.
Thanks LT, I hope you will make some tweaks and refinements to your website in 2012, your comments platform is appalling and can do with updating (these things are available free of charge in cyberspace); the “thumbs up and down” are always unresponsive and faulty. The overall grammar in most your articles posted from especially radio stations transcripts is below standard to say the least..Â
Zedian well said. Lets start the new year with non tribal terms. We are all zambians. KOLWESTAN and BANTUSTAN are not any close to being zambian.
Congratulations to you LT, you could do even better by increasing the maximum number of characters allowable per comment. I wish you and fellow bloggers the best of 2012!! GOD BLESS YOU!!
LT, thanks for your rentless efforts to keep us informed. You deserve a pat on the back. May I take this opportunity to implore you to do more on proof reading so as to keep correct spellings and wording even. Otherwise, hats off to you guys. Enjoy the best this year
Well done so far.more room of improvement but glad you are there.it’s not easy I know in this complex world of ours. Keeping going.Happy 2012
LT you have really reformed……
Thank you!
Thanks LT. You are a star. Plz improve your censorship / moderation so that comments carrying tribal and bad language can be removed asap. Learn from bbc blogs.
U know what z best as a site. Gud news z nt praising the President o the time even when he z offside or Criticizing th President un necessarily even failing to praise him wen he does gud. Its not about demonizng th opposition to PF or demonising th supotas to PF. Its nt about copy cut from Public o Private media bt its about being original with what u write. Its about publishng news that is fair and unbiased coverage.
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