In March 2007 (jeez, that long ago??) I wrote a post titled Ten Young South African Digital Citizens To Watch. In it I highlighted the guys and girls I believed would make a big, meaningful impact over the next few months in the South African digital space. I’m pleased to report that many of them [...]
I was privileged enough to receive an invite from Reuben Goldberg to join him on an episode of his popular talk show The Internet Economy which airs every Friday night from 7-8 on ClassicFM. We spoke about the broad subject of social media in South Africa, the article I wrote the other day (the Next [...]
Or at least that’s what my neighbour, Jacques, will be hoping. Early this morning Wendy woke me up asking me to unplug the computers, modem and phone lines because of a serious electrical storm that had set in (we get some pretty mean lightning where we are so this is a fairly regular occurence). Stumbling [...]
The honeymoon is over. Much of the hype and noise surrounding social media and its meteoric rise (especially in the USA) has abated. Perhaps owing to the global economic crisis, arguably due to the apparent lack of sustainable business models and possibly as a result of some semblance of reasonable thinking, we’re no longer reading [...]
…is only sometimes through his stomach. The way to this man’s heart, at least, is through a 6,27 litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine under the hood of one of the scariest ‘passenger vehicles’ on the road today. You know I’m an Audi fan – let’s state this up front, and having just invested in a shiny [...]
I think everybody complains. Especially South Africans. Complaining is our 12th official language. Some complain and do nothing to fix what they’re complaining about. But others – the select few – seek to change whats wrong with the world with invaluable random acts of kindess (stolen from Evan Almighty). Two such people are very good [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the topical question a couple of interesting people, and myself, will be discussing in a session that forms part of the SA Business Schools Expo at the Sandton Sun this coming Wednesday evening (17h00 to 19h00). Max Kaizen (under the banner of her newest project, Epiphany) has pulled together Branko Brkic (Editor of [...]
It seems Google South Africa, which until now has pretty much hovered under the radar (other than one or two events that they’ve hosted), suddenly find themselves in hot water with Cape Town-based ‘IT and Digital Marketing solutions provider’ Entelligence the Competition Commission. This intriguing press release found it’s way into my inbox today… Cape Town [...]
I give the guys from Cape Town a hard time, I know. The truth is I love Cape Town, but my heart is in Jozi. One of the things that suck about Johannesburg though, and probably more than anything else, is that when you’re not working there’s not much to do – recreationally I mean. [...]
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I had a fascinating chat over Skype with Rafiq Phillips this morning. In case you don’t already know, Rafiq is a prolific blogger and Web AddiCT, he was recently featured on Carte Blanche in a piece about Web 2.0 and has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Bono and the founders of Google at global [...]
One of my nicer, completely online friends, Thomas Otter, is doing something pretty spectacular in aid of raising funds for the Zimbabwe Benefit Foundation. He and some friends are going to do a week long Alpine ride – on their BICYCLES – all proceeds of which (donations wise) will go to the foundation. It’s a [...]
Vincent Maher and I spent a fascinating day in a very sunny Cape Town with the Design Indaba team today. On the way to the session at the gorgeous 12 Apostles Boutique Hotel (kudos to the staff – best service I’ve experienced in ages) we got chatting about the state of the social Web, and [...]
