Ok maybe I’m finding this funnier than you will, but I just got a mail from Virgin Active saying the following (verbatim): Hey there Premier Upgrade Fee We’re writing to let you know that your monthly upgrade fee will be increased by R .00 per month, effective 1 January 2009, resulting in your new monthly [...]
Dave Duarte has grown the Nomadic Marketing brand into the definitive local social and mobile media education programme – nothing else comes close. The combination of excellent content, the backing of the UCT GSB and professional facilitation mean that it ranks among the best of it’s kind worldwide. And now Dave is bringing Nomadic Marketing [...]
I love free stuff. Want to win me over? Send me free stuff. But then I think that works for most humans. I still get a warm tingly feeling when a post office slip arrives, or even better, the courier rings the doorbell for me to collect some random corporate gift or token. Doesn’t matter [...]
Just before I sneaked out of the office yesterday I received a surprise in the form of a hand-delivered package containing a flash disk and a letter drawing my attention to the launch of SA’s newest tech podcast, The Digital Edge. As soon as I got home, and in between whipping up supper and greeting [...]
In March 2007 (jeez, that long ago??) I wrote a post titled Ten Young South African Digital Citizens To Watch. In it I highlighted the guys and girls I believed would make a big, meaningful impact over the next few months in the South African digital space. I’m pleased to report that many of them [...]
God bless Sheena Gates‘ little cotton socks. Not only does she regail us with unending wit and drama on Twitter but, and to quote her own words, in a week that is normally quite ‘emo’ for many of us returning to the grindstone, she has brought a little ray of sunshine to the circle-jerking, ego-flated [...]
This time inspired by Erik Hersman, but not necessarily a meme, my weapons of choice: 15″ MacBook Pro 16 Gb iPhone Gorilla-head stress ball (too cool) Steaming hot cup of coffee Car key (I spend most of my life on the road) Canon EOS 450D D-SLR (not pictured) Garmin Nuvi GPS (not pictured) What are [...]
Erik has tagged me as part of the “Why I Blog About Africa” meme. It’s proved a tough one to answer. I blog about Africa primarily because I was born here, I guess. I sometimes feel guilty calling myself African because in many ways South Africa is to Africa as America is to the rest [...]
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business — Copyblogger Is Twitter more than just a waste of time? Before you discard it, read this and decide. (tags: web2.0 socialnetworking socialmedia marketing branding business tips tools seo social_media Twitter)
Influential Marketing Blog: A Compilation of 2009 Social Media Predictions Worth Reading Rohit points to a very nice doc highlighting 2009 social media predictions / trends from the minds of the industry's leading thinkers (tags: predictions trends social media RohitBhargava)
Cherryflava: South African Old School ads: Making even more sense 20 years on Jon Cherry takes us back to the 80's and some scary-ass ads, which, sadly enough, have some learnings for modern advertisers. (tags: marketing branding advertising Cherryflava cigarette) Cherryflava: Best South African ad of 2008 Jon Cherry takes a look at the cream [...]
This morning, at 07h08, Kate Ashleigh Stopforth joined our family. The moment I walked into the ward at sparrow’s fart this morning the memories began to flood back. Ethan was born in the same hospital, same surgery, almost four years ago. It’s amazing how quickly you forget the sites, smells and sounds – and the [...]
I was privileged enough to receive an invite from Reuben Goldberg to join him on an episode of his popular talk show The Internet Economy which airs every Friday night from 7-8 on ClassicFM. We spoke about the broad subject of social media in South Africa, the article I wrote the other day (the Next [...]
Four years doesn’t feel like a long time. But my goodness, a lot can happen in four years. 3 years and 10 months ago my son Ethan was born. It was a big day. I know that’s a cliched thing to say – but there’s just something earth-shatteringly amazing about experiencing the birth of one’s [...]
Or at least that’s what my neighbour, Jacques, will be hoping. Early this morning Wendy woke me up asking me to unplug the computers, modem and phone lines because of a serious electrical storm that had set in (we get some pretty mean lightning where we are so this is a fairly regular occurence). Stumbling [...]
The honeymoon is over. Much of the hype and noise surrounding social media and its meteoric rise (especially in the USA) has abated. Perhaps owing to the global economic crisis, arguably due to the apparent lack of sustainable business models and possibly as a result of some semblance of reasonable thinking, we’re no longer reading [...]
…is only sometimes through his stomach. The way to this man’s heart, at least, is through a 6,27 litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine under the hood of one of the scariest ‘passenger vehicles’ on the road today. You know I’m an Audi fan – let’s state this up front, and having just invested in a shiny [...]
I think everybody complains. Especially South Africans. Complaining is our 12th official language. Some complain and do nothing to fix what they’re complaining about. But others – the select few – seek to change whats wrong with the world with invaluable random acts of kindess (stolen from Evan Almighty). Two such people are very good [...]
Big news from the Afrigator team today is the launch of AdGator – Africa’s first blogging ad network. We always envisioned Afrigator being a platform that bloggers could not only use to ‘market’ their content but also a source of revenue for them, and finally we have a model that allows us to do just [...]
Simply not thought through well enough for my liking… Seen in one of the dingier corners of the Magalies Meander, Magaliesberg.
