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Andre (Ellis), our uber-developer/designer has a set of 3 juggling balls at our offices at the moment. Every now and then I take a moment to learn to juggle. I have an odd desire to learn to do a whole bunch of things, even just a little bit – but that’s for another post. Point [...]

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing | chrisbrogan.com More succinct, simple guidelines from ChrisBrogan.com – this guy is prolific and a worthy addition to any RSS reader… (tags: marketing socialmedia social web2.0 strategy blogging blog business advertising) TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities Somebody likes making lists. TechCult.com has come up [...]

Without a doubt the supremely popular Guitar Hero 3 video game has millions of wannabe musicians (and even established musicians) the world over fulfilling their long-held dreams of being an axe-wielding rock star, but what if guitar is not really your thing? What if you’d rather fantasize about being the greatest sitar or accordian player [...]

Now before you get suspicious, I’m not going to agree with Tank Lanning’s Sports24 column about our win over the All Blacks in Carisbrook this last weekend because his name is Tank (albeit that is a compelling enough reason on it’s own) – I’m agreeing because he is 100% right. You may be wondering why [...]

One of the most inspirational characters I’ve ever met is a guy by the name of Rich Mulholland. Rich runs two companies, Missing Link and Thunk!, the former being a ‘presentation strategy company’ and the latter a ‘perspective lab’.  Rich’s story is an inspiring one – having progressed from rock band roadie to uber-successful entrepreneur [...]

On the back of the official announcement of Bill Gates’ last day as a full time Microsoft employee, this thought-provoking article by Philip Copeman, who is the Project Leader of TurboCASH Accounting – “the worlds leading Open Source Accounting package.” Regardless of which side of the open source / proprietary software fence you sit, it’s [...]

Home | Rocking the Daisies Competition Awesome idea to promote the Rocking the Daisies festival down South – a game of blog tag! (tags: competition festival music blog blogging tag tagging) Wordle – Create tag clouds with a difference This is the best time-waster I’ve found all year, with some potentially awesome applications! (tags: tagcloud [...]

It had to happen eventually. Someone with some time, skill and a sense of humour has created Rex the Lion (rather smartly too) to poke fun at the local egosphere. Bravo – this should be fun. Early celeb mentions are Rich…!, Nic and Cluckhoff. Good times!

A Beginner’s Guide to SEO | GottaQuirk Super introductory post to SEO from the guys who know (tags: SEO basics introduction Quirk 101 learning) Make your Mac sing A bit of Mac-related fun from my design guru bud (tags: Mac Apple fun humor Mark Forrester)

a shel of my former self Shel shares some poignant thoughts on social media as B2B tools (tags: socialmedia b2b socialnetworking business social) Ideate – Small Business in South Africa The ideate guys show us the viral videos Rui Esteves and gang used to promote Vida caffe’s via email in the early days – super [...]

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you haven’t yet gorged yourself on the veritable goldmine of inspiration that is the collection of videos of talks presented at TED conferences and freely available at TED.com, you’ve either been hiding under a rock or you need better friends.

For those of you who don’t know yet, this is how the TED site describes the TED phenomenon…

nicharalambous.com » Blog Archive » Images of the Gautrain Train Nic Haralambous scoops pics of Gautrain’s train – nice! (tags: Gautrain South Africa development innovation)

Home | School of Everything Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to teach – this site brings them together! (tags: collaboration community cool education learning web2.0 school teaching social)

11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google – ReadWriteWeb Much being said about Google and it’s future at the moment. Worth a read… (tags: Google search trends future disruption innovation searchengine disruptive)

One of my professional speaking colleagues, Erik Vermeulen, forwarded a very cool email newsletter to me the other day. Normally that would tick me off but the newsletter, produced by Scott Ginsberg (check out his site and blog, they’re awesome), had an article titled 46 Marketing Mistakes Your Company Is (Probably) Making that caught my eye. I read it an thought I’d share it with you – some of it ought to be familiar already but there are a bunch of cool thoughts I thoroughly enjoyed…

I’ve just picked up on a fantastic post from one of my favourite bloggers, Lee LeFever from the Common Craft Show which is a must-read for all of us immersed in the Web 2.0 evolution.

I’ve often criticised advertising agencies of losing site of the bigger picture as a result of striving for bigger, flashier ads, edgier copy and design and of course, elusive awards. But Lee’s post has pointed my accusatory finger right back at me – do I have blinkers 2.0? Am I so worried about my traffic, Twitter replies and blog rankings that I’ve forgotten that the vast majority of my clients and their customers don’t know about, or don’t care about anything 2.0-ish.

Ok, so this funky drum solo is a bit flash, but my goodness Thomas Lang can play a little bit…

After suffering the tragic loss of Ashley Callie earlier this year it’s good to see that the Isidingo production team and cast still have a sense of humour…

Stop posting for 10 whole days. Use a boring generic WordPress theme as a placemarker while you take too much time redesigning your site. Stop replying to comments. Use all the free time you have over two consecutive long weekends to become a better Texas Hold’em player, instead of keeping track of what’s happening in [...]

Ok so it’s been a long time coming but my blog design has needed a serious refresher. I’m in the process of doing so right now, so excuse the current bland-ness. This should only take a few days :)