More to come for 2010 …

Beginning of a new year (or decade) always comes with its set of
“looking-back” session. Madafan just want to begin this year by
thanking you all for this exciting and enriching experience.
I can’t name you all (and I don’t want to risk myself forgetting some
importanant names- although you are all important)
So
- To the early believers and supporters: guys you rock… A lot of
people were convinced(and they still are) I’m crazy starting a
travel-related blog on Madagascar while we are in the middle of a
crisis, truth being said, they may be right but we need foolish
people to accomplish big thing
- To my network of friends (on twitter, friendfeed, facebook, and even
my college alumni network who shouted-out
madagascar-travel-related infos that was worth shouting out on
Madafan: thank you for looking out for us BTW, it was really
impressive to give the impression that Madafan could find unique (by
that time) infos. Readers thought I was doing a great job although I
was alone working on the project, but in fact you are the one behind
this work and you deserve a round of applause
- who didn’t want to start this concept, though pushing us to do it by
ourselves… Well, thank you too as you’ve contributed to stepping
madafan from a concept to reality,
A big Hug and thank you and looking forward to more exchanges for this
new year/decade

Although Madafan only started on April 2009, it’s good to see that
we’ve made some nice achievements:
- a nice and fully-featured wordpress theme, thanks to Justin
Tadlock’s hybrid theme framework (I could receive a free membership
access to his themes in lieu of a malagasy translation of the hybrid
theme)- so malagasy people, grab and use this wonderful wordpress
theme, Justin rocks,
- madafan author found its way to being republished on different major
travel-related networks including www.lonelyplanet.com/madagascar and
www.tipsfromthetlist.com
- Madafan is very active on different online social networks
- Madafan launched the first-ever collection of user-generated
travel-related videos about Madagascar
- and more importantly, we made new friends…

So what are we working on for the future?
- madafan continually feed (and invite people to help) add more videos
to the madagascar video collection on http://video.madafan.com. The
vision is simple: not only do we collect videos, but with geotagging
of media infos becoming popular, and with a better internet connection
that will cover the whole country sooner or later, Madagascar can give
a better touristic experience with useful infos, and why not bring
“augmented reality” to Madagascar. Imagine a tourist standing starting
a pangalanes boat-ride, and having wikipedia, flickr and any other
infos displayed on his mobile phone or laptop while actually enjoying
the experience, wouldn’t that be nice?
- Madafan is inviting selected authors to write on this blog, though
making it a group-blog.Madagascar is big and full of contrast and
worth-discovering places and activities: I can’t do the one-man-show
trying to cover-it-all, we have to rely on true experts and passionate
people to share their stories/experiences. You think you fall into
this category, contact us at http://www.madafan.com/contact-us
- we will finally continue to work on making madafan the top-of-mind
ressources for travellers when it comes Madagascar. In the eyes of
google, we are only PR 3 as of now, we will focus more on attracting
more targeted visitors to the site

Stay tuned, and get your feet wet by contributing one way or another
to the madafan experience

© 2010, Madafan.com: Discover Madagascar. This post was originally posted/or syndicated from http://www.madafan.com