Category Archives: South Africa

May08
13

The Little Dell That Could

Posted in South Africa

This is an unbelievable story that Bronwyn Patten from Dell South Africa sent through to me the other day - thought you geekier types might appreciate it…
Geraldine bought her son a second-hand Dell Latitude laptop (see Dell’s most recent Inspiron range here). One day, in the interest of security, the young man left his [...]

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May08
08

I Would Wet My Pants…

Posted in Life, etc., South Africa

If you look very carefully you’ll notice that the Golf is actually leaning, along with the people inside…
Ok so I’m kidding but heck, what a phenomenal photo…

Hat tip to the Yellow Llama.

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May08
07

Vernon Koekemoer Graces Isidingo

Posted in Random Thoughts, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

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…

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Apr08
23

Gino Cosme Updates His Free Social Media Primer

Posted in Marketing, Advertising and Branding, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

Gino Cosme, a colleague of mine at Cerebra, has managed to do what I so desperately want to do but lack the fortitude to accomplish - he’s not only published a free Introductory Guide to Social Media for download, but he’s keeping it regularly updated.
Gino is a huge asset to Cerebra as our account director. [...]

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Apr08
22

“Kill The Bastards” - The Collaterol Damage

Posted in Life, etc., South Africa

A few weeks ago Susan Shabangu, deputy safety and security minister, came under fire for her comment at a police imbizo when she encouraged police officers to shoot to kill criminals, or more directly - “kill the bastards”.
Family friends of ours are currently spending their days and nights in ICU at the Glynnwood hospital next [...]

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Apr08
17

Matthew Buckland Is Bolton Deventer

Posted in Life, etc., South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

So it looks like the cat’s finally out of the bag. I have never written about Bolton the Magnificent, inventor of blogs and master of the Interweb Netsite on this blog before - at the time when the Bolton Deventer meme was at it’s peak I was pretty busy and missed out on the [...]

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Apr08
15

Scoop: Standardbank.mobi Launches ATM And Branch Locator Service

Posted in Marketing, Advertising and Branding, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

The team at Brandsh have combined with Standard Bank to provide yet another awesome to it’s clients (and potential clients) via the StandardBank.mobi mobile portal - ATM and branch location services.  Navigate to http://standardbank.mobi on your cellphone right now to check it out.
The service is painfully simple to use but incredibly powerful. Standard Bank [...]

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Apr08
09

All Hail Graeme Smith

Posted in Life, etc., South Africa

When considering all the the captains of all of South Africa’s professional sporting codes since readmission, none have received as much flack and endured as much pressure from fans, fellow players and media alike than Graeme Smith, and yet despite all that produced such excellent results.
Yes, read that sentence again if you need to.
I have [...]

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Apr08
09

Standard Bank Goes Social In Style

Posted in Marketing, Advertising and Branding, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

Standard Bank have broken new marketing ground by becoming South Africa’s first major brand (or any brand for that matter) to publish a social media release for our national Pro20 cricket tournament, of which they are the major sponsor. It seems quite appropriate that the progressive, game-changing nature of the 20-over format of cricket [...]

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Apr08
09

Video Of My Talk At The New Media Marketing Conference

Posted in Marketing, Advertising and Branding, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media

The team at Zoopy.com have edited and published a video of my talk at the recent New Media Marketing Conference. Here is the clip (complete with English phrases that I tend to make up on the fly. I reckon it’s just part of my charm…):

Your comments, as always, are encouraged and appreciated.

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