Using Social Media to track the Mondli arrest

On Sunday the news broke that Sunday Times editor, Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker will be arrested some time this week. This is obviously a huge story for The Times and after a brief strategy session this morning we decided we’d try and use Social Media to track this major event in Media history.

After lots of coffee and the abuse of Nino’s Internet connection we’ve managed to track all that’s been written about this in the social media sphere. We’ve setup a dedicated channel on Jaiku which tracks posts from Afrigator, Amatomu, Muti, Technorati and Twitter.

If you’re a blogger and you write about this issue all you need to do is tag your posts with mondli and it will automatically appear in the Jaiku channel. If you’re not a blogger but want to comment on this issue you can also do so by visiting the channel and having your say.

We’ve also got a cool widget for your blog or news site that shows the latest from the Jaiku channel and you can grab the code below.

<object width="200" height="330">
<param name="movie" value="http://static.jaiku.com/images/badge.swf?
feedURL=http://jaiku.com/channel/mondli/feed/badge"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="http://static.jaiku.com/images/badge.swf?
feedURL=http://jaiku.com/channel/mondli/feed/badge"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent" width="200" height="330"></embed>
</object>

Join in on the free Mondli campaign and have your say now.