Tag Archives: Cerebra

Video Of My NetProphet Presentation

Posted 23 May 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Marketing and Advertising, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 7 Comments

I recently raved about the NetProphet conference I was privileged enough to be invited to speak at, and now the video is up for your perusal, comments and random abuse

I realise, watching this, that I have a dangerously dry sense of humour that may not always serve my best interests… hmmm. Oh well, [...]

Home And Away

Posted 06 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Web 2.0 and Social Media | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Why I Love Working At Cerebra

Posted 04 September 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Random Thoughts, South Africa | 4 Comments

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. [...]

Exciting Projects On The Go At Cerebra

Posted 09 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 4 Comments

Jeepers, things are cooking. We’ve had to really step up a gear in the last few months to respond to the demand for social and mobile media interventions from agencies and companies alike.
I’d like to brag about two projects in particular. Firstly we’re doing work with Internet Solutions in developing IS [...]

TECH4FRICA Website Launched

Posted 25 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 1 Comment

TECH4FRICA, a “web and emerging technology conference for Africa” being organised by Gareth Knight (of Kindo fame) has officially launched it’s website with info about the upcoming event.
It’s due to be held at The Forum in Bryanston over 3 and 4 October and already at this early stage has a very impressive speaker line up.
I [...]

Looking Back On Three Big Years

Posted 23 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Life, etc. | 6 Comments

Today has been an embarrassingly sentimental day for me. It marks the three year anniversary of my first ever blog post. Ha ha. Had I known in advance the realms of geekiness I would be sucked into I might never have ventured so far, but in retrospect I’m glad I did :)

Just after that first post on the faith-themed Idle Banter and before starting this blog, much of my creative energy was invested in TomorrowToday’s blog, which you can check out here… My foray into citizen journalism sparked a chain of events that included quitting a comfortable job at this company to work with people at another completely different company, trying to build what I called a ‘blog consultancy’ at the time (yikes) that eventually evolved into Cerebra