Skout, for the love of designers

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After long hours of labour, litres of caffeine and almost all my bandwidth I just jumped the first hurdle, the launch of Skout™.

Skout™ is a bookmark sharing platform with design resources for designers by designers.

Everybody is free to submit their sites to share with everybody.

Skout™ aims at becoming a one stop resources shop with links of great resources on just one page, all listed for free.

Skout™’s mandate is to list quality design resources from all over the world, and I aim at promoting quality resources from designers in Africa wherever applicable.

Listings are not limited to African design resources websites only but part of this project would be only be a success, as more and more sites from Africa get listed and promoted as Skout™ grows.

I was able to gather just over 250 sites over the past 9 months and I hope the number will grow as we all share our list of design resources.

You can share your sites by emailing the urls to: share[at]skout.co.za




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This post was authored by Mokokoma Mokhonoana and it has been published on March 17th, 2008. It is filed under Personal, Resources. I invite you to leave a remark, you can follow responses to this writing via rss feed.



  • munashe Said:

    good luck nice idea, hope it works out
    — On March 17th, 2008 at 4:16 pm [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    Munashe,

    Thanks, hopefully with help from all those who care to share Skout™ will grow and promote those who deserve to be exposed.
    — On March 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm [permarlink]
  • yasser Said:

    Awesome man,
    great resources,
    there was nothing like this before
    thanks for making it available.
    :)
    — On March 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    I’m glad to hear that Skout™ will add value to you.
    — On March 20th, 2008 at 10:40 am [permarlink]
  • John-John Said:

    Great site but, one question?
    Is this product a TM, as I am sure I have seen similar sites else where? And a can you use a TM sign if you havent paid there royalties?

    Anycase, very helpful!
    — On March 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    John-John,

    Thanks for your compliment and on the trademark concern please visit Wiki and be educated.
    — On March 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm [permarlink]
  • Joachim Said:

    Always thought something like this had to be done.
    Great stuff!
    — On March 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    Joachim,

    Compliment much appreciated, thank you.
    — On March 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm [permarlink]
  • Chris M Said:

    Good luck with the new venture, the site is looking good and there are already a number of great resources!
    — On March 24th, 2008 at 4:49 pm [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    Chris,

    Thanks, I’m glad you find the site useful.
    — On March 24th, 2008 at 9:45 pm [permarlink]
  • John-John Said:

    Thanks Mokokoma, Did some research on behalf of my own company? And Wiki was helpful, never thought a TM can be so easy! Keep up the good work!
    — On March 25th, 2008 at 4:35 pm [permarlink]
  • collen masango Said:

    Hey man, you’re still doing a great job i see. Keep it up, you gave me the inspiration of becoming a good graphic designer if I may say.

    I’m currently doing my first year as a graphic design student at Rosebank College. Let me say I’m looking up to you and your work.
    — On May 15th, 2008 at 4:26 pm [permarlink]
  • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    Thanks for your compliments Collen.
    — On May 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm [permarlink]
  • Skout’s progress and tips for growing an online offspring • Mokokoma Mokhonoana Said:

    [...] has been just over 4 months since the launch of Skout™ and I thought I should share the website’s progress thus far. Skout™ ‘s [...]
    — On July 30th, 2008 at 12:35 am [permarlink]

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