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Nominations are open for the 2007 South African E-Commerce Awards. The awards are sponsored by Jump Shopping and I’ve been asked to judge – nice one. Send in your submissions now!

I’m going to try my hand at sports writing over the next few weeks. Perhaps just to deal with the emotional rollercoaster I’m bound to endure – if tonight’s opening match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup was anything to go by. The Pumas won it at the anthems. There was something about the way [...]

Check out the Afrigator blog for details on a few new features, they’re pretty small in comparison to some of the stuff we are working on but in the interest of reminding you that we haven’t fallen off the planet, check out our new Trends page and our very own Twitter channel!

The guys at MyADSL were kind enough to invite Justin Hartman, my partner and tech genius at Afrigator, to talk a little about our recent mention in Business 2.0 magazine. Click here to listen to the interview. Nice interview – well done Justin, you did us proud bru :)

Terrappin Training is one of South Africas most prominent conference organisers. I am fortunate enough to have landed the odd speaking slot at one or two of their marketing and branding conferences, but long before I ever dreamed of speaking about social media, or even knew what a blog was, Terrappin was sending me mail [...]

Maggie Fox, the lovely leading lady at the Social Media Group, kindly asked me to join her for a discussion around Cerebra in a recent podcast. This is not our first discussion – Maggie and I had a chat a while back which was quite a success, apparently, and was keen to hear some updates [...]

This blog will be a little quiet over the next few days as I concentrate my efforts on liveblogging the Toyota Auris media launch in Durbs. Cerebra is privileged to have been asked to help Toyota engage you – SA’s most influential and connected citizen journalists – through their first ever blog. Check out the [...]

The Gordon Institute of Business Science in Jozi has also (along with UCT GSB) recognised the ever-increasing need for credible executive training and education around emerging social media trends and technologies. Their answer is the upcoming “Cutting Edge Mobile and Web Marketing – Gearing up for the future” one-day programme being held at the institute [...]

Cerebra seeks a human with outrageously good development and design skills (and I mean that – really good) for full time position. Knowledge of social media and a keen eye for new trends and developments. Ideally based in Johannesburg. Needs to be ambitious and have a desire to take over the world in the near [...]

The last few months have been pretty hectic at work, hence the sporadic posting. Thanks to a bit of free press (CNBC, FM Campus and Financial Mail – not to mention Afrigator’s appearance in Business 2.0) more companies are noticing Cerebra and wanting to do cool work with us. Apart from the numerous ‘social media [...]