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I hate live TV interviews – they petrify me – and for good reason too. See what happened to Nhlanhla Nene while being interviewed live on SABC. It’s spreading like wildfire too – I have mates in the States asking me who ‘this Nene chairman’ is already – LOL. Much respect goes to the interviewer [...]

I have been tagged by Scott in the Worldwide Blogger Bake Off – a viral marketing initiative designed by Quirk eMarketing to raise funds for Breadline Africa, one of their charity clients. Basically the idea is that I bake a loaf of bread (which will be interesting), blog about it, and then tag other bloggers [...]

I received an email from Shelley Wilson, an honours student at Vega who is doing her thesis on viral video. She’s put together this ’15 tips for viral marketing videos’ clip, with an accompanying article (quoted below) that she’d love your feedback on. I’m all for feedback, so let her have it! We live in [...]

Disclaimer: Toyota is a Cerebra client. My mom is a Grade One teacher at Benoni Junior School. She shared this cool service story with me the other day, I thought it was pretty exceptional and wanted to give them some airtime. She tells it as such: Sitting in the East Rand Toyota showroom recently while [...]

Day 1 of TechEd is behind us and it was a brain-straining one. I managed to catch the last half of co-CEO Leo Apotheker‘s opening keynote after traversing Berlin in search of a chemist. The highlight of Leo’s keynote for me was the announcement of EcoHub, “a community-powered solution marketplace” designed to “accelerate the discovery, [...]

If you didn’t catch it in the last update I posted – I was kindly invited by SAP’s VP of social media relations Mike Prosceno to attend their TechEd conference in Berlin as a blogger. By some bizarre stroke of luck I landed up with an empty seat next to me on a very full [...]

Just a quick note that we’ll be meeting up this Friday evening at Cappello, 19h00, for drinks with Erik Hersman – would be cool to see y’all there.

The family and I got back from a much needed break at Crystal Springs in Mpumalanga on Sunday, but the fun and sun of the previous week was quickly brought down to earth by the mountain of stuff I realised I had to do this week. That’s the problem with going away – you bump [...]

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The 29th 27dinner, held on the 25th to accommodate more folks (weekends aren’t ideal for these things), was, I think, an improvement on previous dinners. The new venue, Cappello in Sandton City, suited our presentation format far better and encouraged a more networky vibe. Thanks to Garsen (the owner) and his team for their refreshingly [...]

Damn, that sounds good. Sadly I cannot confirm the validity of this report at Beat Magazine – SA’s newest satirical, um, publication (on the back of the lion that just didn’t last), but I really wish I could. The idea of a remote sanctuary in Port St. Johns is marvelous super duper. Beat has already [...]

Demetri Martin is once of my favourite comedians. This particular skit ranks up there with the best of Izzard and co., if only for the inclusion of the flip chart as a prop. In fact I’m almost sure I’ve featured him on this site before but am too lazy to check it out. Enjoy it [...]

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I’m pretty excited about a few conferences that’ll be happening in the next few weeks. There have been a series of successful marketing-related Web 2.0 conferences this year that have served to raise awareness around the power of social media as a platform for engaging consumers, but top quality conferences addressing the application of social [...]

I’m happy as a pig in pooh. For many years now I’ve had a not so secret obsession with reptiles (I once owned a few snakes) and have always wanted a Green Iguana. They’re amazing animals – millions of years in evolution and still so fragile – and incidentally one of the few reptile species [...]

I very seldom sleep during the day, but succumbed to an attack by the sandman while reading a recent edition of Maverick on the couch at work the other day. Chris took the opportunity to snap a pic of me, lights-out, doing my best Stephen Hawking impersonation ever… classic!

Honestly, I’m convinced we hire some of the coolest and cleverest people in the country at Cerebra. Just take for example this email from Carl, subject ‘Can’t work with this poop any longer …’ which landed in my inbox this morning, had me in stitches, and which I couldn’t help but share publicly. I haven’t [...]

After the rugby on Saturday I was chatting to one of our clients about the SA blogosphere when she mentioned, quite out of the blue, something about ‘all the influence and importance’ I had. I nearly choked on my beer, as I often do (but not always on beer) when people, with the best intentions, [...]