Archive for the ‘business’ Category

Top 50 Online Tools For Start-Ups

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

As someone who conducts most of my work online, I am always interested in finding new, useful and above all else, the cheapest possible (FREE!) tools to save time and speed up business processes. So it is with great pleasure that I present this Slideshare presentation I found by someone ...

Twitter For Business, Marketing, Branding And Communication

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

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South Africa: Telecoms ‘Gold Rush’ Leaves Nothing for Masses – ICASA

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This press release was widely distributed online and appeared on Allafrica.com amongst others, from where I reproduce it, with full credits intact. This of course ties in with my previous posts regarding the fragile socio-political dynamics of the South African internet/web 2.0/technology sector and the many challenges faced by all ...

Why Social Media Will Fail in South Africa

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I stumbled on a very interesting post which is an elaboration on Tuesday's theme, entitled The Internet's Hierarchy Of Needs. The author also superimposes Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Needs on the internet. As we can see, at the very base of the pyramid is 1. Existence needs: The most basic ...

A 50 Ways Mashup between Chris Brogan and Jeremiah Owyang

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Two of the web's foremost commentators and thought leaders in the social media space, Chris Brogan and Jeremiah Owyang, has teamed up to bring us an awesome list of 50 checkpoint items to accomplish when augmenting our online marketing strategies. Chris has his original post up here. At the suggestion ...