www.Naeem.co.za

I always believe, any career that you choose, any skill that you develop and learn – you should apply it for the greater good. Money should not be the sole purpose of your skills & career.

Earlier this year a company called Khatmatul Awaam started, they aim to offer a non-profit Hajj & Umrah travel agency.  I commend their efforts and encourage the public to show their support. Even if you do not book trips through them, merely a thumbsup and complimentary email will raise their spirit and score you some reward.

I’m glad to be a part of this project and sincerely hope my contribution of a full blow wordpress powered website will be a boost to their project & ideaology.

I will post a full link as soon as their content is up.

Seth Godins blog is part of my Google Reader,  a few days ago he posted a short post on “Remembering”

Is it worth doing?

What was my impact?

Will it matter in the long haul?

What sort of connections did I create?

Wherever you live, whatever you do, you have an obligation.

I explained this to the owner & founder of IFISA - I have been commisioned to create an online Islamic Finance magazine for the Muslim African population.

What prompted me to write this post, a reader all the way in Athens, USA posted a comment and subsequent email.  This was from reading the daily Ramadan Quran Translations I have been posting on MyUmmah.co.za (more…)

Introducing MuslimJobs.co.za

South Africa’s first job-board website aimed at empowering and supporting the Muslim community.  Job postings are free to create & apply.  Currently, the most popular muslim websites that offer a similar service are Radio Islam & MuslimsAtWork - both of which run on my Automailer mailing list.

Radio Islam & MuslimsAtWork send out daily & weekly newsletters respectively – They each have Vacancies whereby email subscribers can view various job opportunities through the countries Muslim communities.  In essence it is a good  initiative and many have found work this way – Even I found an assistant many years ago through this method.

Nontheless, times change, technologies improve & we adapt ourselves to the world around us and this is how MuslimJobs has started. Using opensource software from Romania, Jobberbase was the script of choice to get this project done.

I have kept the categories simple and to the point.

Corporate – for the big name companies looking for staff
Small Business – your typical retail store, supermarket, etc looking for sales person, manager and so on
Professionals – Aimed at the medical industry with doctors looking for locums, assistants and similar.
Services – Looking for someone to project manage a building, looking for a web designer? all these would go into the services category.
Lift-Club – This was a last minute edition, I’ve seen many adverts on newsletters and web forums for carpools, lift sharing and ride clubs.

Jobs are available as Full Time, Part Time & Freelance which is quite self explanatory.

For income or sustainability – I have decided to go with an Honor System – If users have gained something out of using MuslimJobs.co.za – they are welcomed to donate a small fee to the upkeep and development of future online projects.

For marketing and web promotion – I’m on a zero budget for this project, I have opted to use:
- banner & promotion on MyUmmah.co.za (which has seen fantastic growth and now averages about 300 to 450 daily reads)
- a short blurb on Radio Islam’s daily newsletter

Addtionally I have requested a few facebook groups to punt this website & initiative.

Visit MuslimJobs.co.za and give me your honest feedback.

Since I’v updated this blog. Alas the last few months have been pretty lifechanging!

Anyway, those close to me would have known the good news, Alhamdulillah, on the 15th March my Nikah (wedding) will take place. I do owe a ton of credit to my future wife, Electric Spaghetti, who many many moons ago got my feet wet with the world of blogging. Safe to say, i now know more then her when it comes to WordPress

All things material mean nothing, all I ask is for you to mention us in your prayers.

Earlier in 2008, I relaunched www.myummah.co.za (i’m sure some would notice the link at the top of the site) – Unfortunately the Pligg platform was rather limiting in terms of scalability – compared to WordPress which has thousands of plugins which makes customising and upgrading much much easier & quicker. Looks like the ‘voting’ system didnt quite catch on.

I’ll type up a seperate post detailing the plugins & themes used for MyUmmah.co.za