Goma, 4 April 2014 – At the initiative of a young Congolese blogger by the name of Guylain Balume Muhindo, founder of the "Social Medias for Artists" who, after studying cinema and social medias understood the importance of training the Congolese artists to use the social networks, MONUSCO Public Information section decided to support him by availing its press center and provide him with the necessary logistic support. About forty artists registered for the four-day training which ended on Friday 4 April 2014. Few of them were already familiar, to some extent, with the social network tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Youtube.

Guylain Balume Muhindo said “it is essential in our time that an artist be on the social networks. Artists must make themselves known and publish their projects. Social Medias are a means of maintaining closest links and increasing one’s fan clubs.” Guylain Balume Muhindo was born in Goma on 1st May 1990. He is currently working as blogger and journalist for a social and cultural program Pamoja Mag Bloggers. He is also a poet, and won the prize of a competition organized by Humanité Plus in 2011 to uphold democratic values.

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