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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 [...]

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 [...]

Big news from the Afrigator team today is the launch of AdGator – Africa’s first blogging ad network. We always envisioned Afrigator being a platform that bloggers could not only use to ‘market’ their content but also a source of revenue for them, and finally we have a model that allows us to do just [...]

I have been tagged by Scott in the Worldwide Blogger Bake Off – a viral marketing initiative designed by Quirk eMarketing to raise funds for Breadline Africa, one of their charity clients. Basically the idea is that I bake a loaf of bread (which will be interesting), blog about it, and then tag other bloggers [...]

Day 1 of TechEd is behind us and it was a brain-straining one. I managed to catch the last half of co-CEO Leo Apotheker‘s opening keynote after traversing Berlin in search of a chemist. The highlight of Leo’s keynote for me was the announcement of EcoHub, “a community-powered solution marketplace” designed to “accelerate the discovery, [...]

If you didn’t catch it in the last update I posted – I was kindly invited by SAP’s VP of social media relations Mike Prosceno to attend their TechEd conference in Berlin as a blogger. By some bizarre stroke of luck I landed up with an empty seat next to me on a very full [...]

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.

The family and I got back from a much needed break at Crystal Springs in Mpumalanga on Sunday, but the fun and sun of the previous week was quickly brought down to earth by the mountain of stuff I realised I had to do this week. That’s the problem with going away – you bump [...]

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