Thank you

Most of you readers will be logging off your work machines this week, and since most of our readers access Techzim from work, we just want to express our gratitude while we still have your attention.

2011 has been a blast for us. It’s the year Techzim became a full time project for us and so much has happened in just 1 year; our readership increased by more than 1000%. Our reach and influence increased significantly. We held a couple of successful events. We met some amazing individuals, companies. We learnt a lot too. In short, our expectations for the year were exceeded by far and we’re thankful.

We received lots of support from a lot of people; the readers, startups, tech companies, government officials (yes, sometimes). People gave up their time (and their money) selflessly to help us along.

So, we’d like to say thanks.

We thank you our readers for coming here for your tech updates. Thank you for saying out your mind in the comments. Your opinions contribute immensely to the answers we all seek. They also enrich the reading experience for other readers.

We’d like to thank our advertisers. You guys help keep the lights on around here. Really, thank you. A special mention to the following 2:

• Tracking, the vehicle satellite tracking and recovery people.
• Axis Solutions, an ICT enterprise solutions company.

Special thanks also goes to all the companies (and individuals in those companies) that helped us execute the events we held this year. Thank you guys. It was great working with you.

• Zimbabwe Online, an internet company that made the commendable move to sponsor the biggest tech startup event in the country yet, the ZOL Startup Challenge.
• Byers Design, a web design & dev company
• Utande, internet people
• EMC2, Storage and could services
• Matamba Anonaka, a local tech VC firm
• Afrosoft, Zimbabwe’s largest software company
• Zimbojam, Zim’s entertainment online magazine
• Webdev, the Classifieds & SHA people
• 3-mob

There are also some great individuals that helped organize the events. We are thankful to you all. None of it would have happened without your help.

We keep receiving feedback about how helpful our Question and Answer platform answers.tech.co.zw is. There are many individuals that tirelessly post answers to questions asked there. We’d like to thank them very much for that. Special mention goes to the guy that has answered more questions and comments than anyone else on the platform, MacD.

Then there’s the #Twimbos in the #Twimbosphere, you guys retweet and mention us every day in your tweets. Thank you. Facebook fans, thank you for the enormous amount of traffic we get from that giant social network every day. Plus you individuals and brands following us on Google+, thank you.

We’re looking forward to a bigger 2012, especially in terms of the value we deliver to you.