Pick ‘n Play
Pick ‘n Pay has launched Pick ‘n Play (thanks to Mike for the headsup) – a music and mobile content donwload site. It’s pretty basic for now, they seem to be building it from the ground up, which I like, and illiciting a bit of feedback from users as part of the development process. It’s [...]
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LinkedIn Social Networking for business (tags: web2.0 socialsoftware socialnetworks networking network)
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geekdinner / JoziGeekDinner Stormhoek brings the Geek Dinner concept to Johanessburg. Nifty! (tags: Stormhoek wine Johannesburg SouthAfrica Africa blogging blogs bloggers)
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Social Networks: Execs Use Them Too BusinessWeek reports on the use of LinkedIn in the enterprise. (tags: business linkedin network networking social socialnetworks socialsoftware web2.0 wisdomofcrowds) The Craft of Connection Organizational network analysis is helping companies share knowledge worldwide, one natural broker at a time. (tags: ONA SNA km knowledgemanagement collaboration enterprise2.0 socialsoftware socialnetworks) Feature [...]
Read more →Making Cents of Blogging
One of the themes that popped up at the recent Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging was making money from blogging. Alec Hogg, in his address to the delegates, spoke to the fact that it has never been easier to ‘micro-publish’ and earn money from it, provided you can differentiate yourself, generate some significant traffic and [...]
Read more →Craigslist Johannesburg
Wikipedia says “Craigslist is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.” So why the heck don’t we use it (asks Jon)? Or do you? Tell me if you do and if it works [...]
Read more →Social Networking Tools for Business
A few days ago I wrote about LinkedIn – the web-based social networking tool with a business application. I hadn’t realised that just three days before that BusinessWeek Online had run a story on the ever-increasing use of social networking tools like LinkedIn in companies titled Social Networks: Execs Use Them Too. From the article: [...]
Read more →Exploring
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Read more →The 2006 Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging – My Take
I’m a young, white South African who sells social software solutions to corporate South Africa. I call myself a blogger, this is my blog. You’ll understand why then, when I heard that “Africa’s first citizen media and blogging conference” was being held in Grahamstown, South Africa, that I wanted to be involved. I called up [...]
Read more →Leaving Gtown
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Read more →Paul Profile
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Read more →Not his Finest Moment
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The muse of social software | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Outstanding article – Dion highlights the work and writings of JP Rangaswami (tags: business collaboration enterprise2.0 socialsoftware web2.0) The Impending Wikipedia Showdown Andrew McAfee believes there is an ever-widening divide in the Wikipedia editorial community between inclusionists and deletionists, and also concludes that we [...]
Read more →Watching the Master at Work
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Read more →Vince looking smart
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Read more →A Rant of Note
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Read more →The Innovators get Recognised
And rightly so! Rafiq and Miguel were featured in the Argus for their brilliant work on iDrive. Well done boys!
Read more →Opening the Digital Citizens Indaba 2006
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Read more →Connecting and Learning
In reflecting on a year’s worth of entrepreneurial adventure, without a shadow of doubt the highlight has been connecting with a diverse network of informed and passionate human beings through technology. This blogging thing (together with other nifty social software tools) has been the catalyst and ‘middle man’ for a truckload of exciting new relationships, [...]
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