Mario Olckers

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Social Media Strategy in South Africa

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I came across a very insightful post over at Experience: The Blog where the author uses Maslow's hierarchy of needs to tease out some of the reasons for online behaviour, in this case why people join online communities. It is a very good analysis of the motivations behind people's behaviour ...

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Video – Stain’d – Zoe Jane

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

This is one of my all-time favourite songs from Stain'd, it reminds me of my own daughter...! Enjoy this, Aaron Lewis is an amazing vocalist.

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Consolidation of scattered web identities – Friendfeed

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

After a long break from blogging because of project and client commitments (I was Twittering and Facebooking and Friendfeeding and posting to del.icio.us all the time; does that count...?), I have now decided to get a name domain and do a bit of the personal branding type stuff that everyone ...

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