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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 [...]

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 [...]

Simply not thought through well enough for my liking… Seen in one of the dingier corners of the Magalies Meander, Magaliesberg.

Cloud Computing Panel at Web 2.0 Summit – ReadWriteWeb Video from Web 2.0 Summit in Berlin of Cloud Computing Panel (tags: cloud computing web2.0 web)

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 [...]

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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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, [...]

Jo’blog » Speednetworking hits SA Oli Barrett has been described as being “more connected than a bowl of spaghetti” – at the first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week is taking place this year and part of it will be speed networking activities across the globe… (tags: entrepreneur entrepreneurship social networking network business)

Saw dust and solder – Two string fretless bass My buddy Pete built a two-string fretless bass guitar out of practically nothing – and it sounds AWESOME. Check out how he made it… (tags: bass guitar fretless two-string musical instrument peter le roux)

Saw dust and solder – Two string fretless bass My buddy Pete built a two-string fretless bass guitar out of practically nothing – and it sounds AWESOME. Check out how he made it… (tags: bass guitar fretless two-string musical instrument peter le roux) Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system It looks like wireless [...]

Home | GSB Execution Education Blog Network The Graduate School of Business in Cape Town launches a business education social network (tags: GSB UCT social network education) Office photos feature – Cerebra and Brandsh Webpreneur Charl Norman features our offices in his office pics feature (tags: Charl Norman entrepreneur Cerebra Brandsh)

You know I’m a fan of the Dave Matthews Band. Devastating news for the band and it’s fans today is that founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore died yesterday afternoon, August 19, due to complications resulting from a serious motorcar accident near his Charlottesville ranch at the end of June. From the band’s website: We [...]

I’m a bit of a Guitar Hero nut. I even have mates over at my house on occasion for Guitar Hero parties (the height of geekiness – yes) and I’ve converted many a previously cool individual to an Xbox-buying-Gibson-wielding nerd. And I’m proud of that fact :) Today I got a mail from my good [...]

I am a beeeg fan of the Dave Matthews Band. Have been for nigh on ten years now. I own all their albums, most of their DVD’s and a healthy selection of their bootlegged recordings. Their truly unique sound and jamband stage act is not everyone’s cup of tea, but despite that they remain one [...]

Stole this from Through My Own Eyes. It’s about the funniest thing I’ve seen all year, too…

Inspired by Chris Brogan’s traffic explosure (explosive + exposure = explosure… TM “me”) thanks to StumbleUpon, I’d like to ask you to stumble this blog if you like it. If you don’t, or disagree with the ethics behind this egotistical request, don’t. You’ll get over it soon enough. Is there a better way (other than [...]