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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. [...]

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 should [...]

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.

I’ve had this review saved in my WordPress drafts for some time now, but after I noticed that Saul was kind enough to mention my blog in his post I felt a bit guilty that I hadn’t published it yet. So here goes… Saul Kropman authors The Outlet – “Interesting commentary for interesting people” – [...]

Congratulations to the following three suggestions for improvements to Afrigator, which according to my records, where the leading submissions on the Muti Hot page last night at 22h00: Nic Haralambous Nic suggested that we bring competitive rankings back to Afrigator. In my honest opinion I think Afrigator has lost some fight since it decided not [...]

If you’ve found your way here because you heard me chatting to Simon Dingle, welcome! Please feel free to leave a comment below with any questions you may have. My thanks goes to 702 for the opportunity to have a quick chat on Talk at 9 after John Robbie picked up on my Citizen column [...]

It’s our first birthday and in keeping with the spirit of innovation and community we’d like to ask you – the dudes who actually make Afrigator tick – to help us come up with some innovative new ideas for improving the experience, look, feel or whatever of the site… Announcing the ‘1 TH1NG‘ Afrigator birthday [...]

I flew down to Cape Town yesterday to attend the South African Blog Awards. The event was held at the UCT Tennis Club and was very well attended by folks from all walks of life. Huge congrats go to Jon Cherry and his team for organising the event out of the goodness of his heart [...]

While the blogosphere has it’s conflicting opinions about the Springleap SEO competition Eric Edelstein has watched his new baby’s rankings soar up the charts. Springleap.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a site that showcases the T-shirt designs of artists (or just ordinary budding designers like you maybe) on a monthly basis – [...]

Considering I ‘couldn’t get it up’ at New Media Marketing 08 (damn the technical gremlins – my Mac is supposed to just work!), here is the presentation you never got to see… :) | View | Upload your own Your comments, as always, are welcome.

To all that attended the 27dinner in Jozi tonight, thanks for making it an awesome success. Special thanks goes to the speakers – Gareth from Buzzfuse (congrats on the recent growth guys!), Jonathan Miller from ForgeBusiness (viva Las Vegas!), Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral (and the Oscar for the best PPT slides in history goes to…) [...]

I think all round day two of the New Media Marketing conference was a richer, more meaningful one (at least for me) with the exception of one absolutely shocking presenter, to which I’m not even going to give the courtesy of a hyperlink. Huge credit must go to Jason and the rest of Zoopy for [...]

We all shuffled in to Gallagher Estate (after navigating Jozi’s worst traffic) this morning in expectation of what we hoped would be a half decent conference… and a lekker kuier to boot. The turnout from actual delegates was slightly underwhelming but generally the standard of the content on the day was above average. My highlights… [...]

Henk Kleynhans (CEO of Skyrove) and I once met for coffee at Sandton City while he was up from Cape Town to talk about our industry, our respective businesses and life in general. We hit it off straight away – he’s a smart, likable guy. Somewhere during our chat, he has since reminded me, I [...]

I’m a Benoni boy; born, bred and bloody proud of it. However, it goes without saying that Benoni is not without it’s quirks. I recently picked up a link from the Benoni High Matric class of ’98 Facebook group to the Benoni High School website, and in particular these hilarious boy’s hairstyle guidelines (or regulations [...]

Without a doubt the coolest part of my ‘job’ is the people I get to meet on a daily basis. Last Thursday I had lunch with Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons. She inspired me to not only share with what it is that she does, but also share the many interactions I get to [...]

Congratulations to Melissa Attree, who I think did enough to win the ticket to New Media Marketing 2008. Vincent did the same and as a result Bev is going – very cool! Thanks also to Jonathan Bydendyk for participating.

I must confess I’m pretty excited about the upcoming New Media Marketing conference being held at Gallagher Estate. Not only was this a great event last year, the line up for this year at the networking opportunities presented by the conference are fast positioning it as a highlight on the local Web-related conference circuit. The [...]

The official opening of Google’s South African headquarters made tech news headlines locally and got many of us geeks, I’m happy to admit, pretty excited. However subsequent media briefings have left some of us a bit frustrated. Google is an exciting company – arguably the most intriguing company of my generation – and as my [...]

Muti is a social bookmarking website for Africans (it’s currently dominated by South Africans though). Social bookmarking works like this: if I find something on the Web I am particularly intrigued by – be it video, audio, image or an article – I can submit the URL (Web address) for that item to a site [...]