Mario Olckers

Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, WordPress, Africa

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I have found a very good tool in the form of a WordPress plugin called WordBook, what it does is to integrate with your self-hosted wordpress.org blog on your own domain and then also your Facebook profile and mini-feed. This updates all your WordPress blog posts to your Facebook profile ...

Posted in africa, blogging, business, community, facebook, hogsback, internet, microsoft, mobile service providers, south africa, technology, wordpress, yahoo | Comments

Of Rats, Mice and cultural dissonance: Marketing to Chinese in the Year of the Rat

Friday, January 25th, 2008

A lot has happened this past week that could possibly be construed as newsworthy, so here are a couple of things that caught my attention as it was streaming past my consciousness: - The Twittersphere (tm) has been abuzz with the MacWorld Expo and Steve Jobs' keynote clogging up the ...

Posted in Blogroll, Web 2.0, africa, blogging, business, community, culture, hogsback, information, internet, marketing, publishing, south africa, technology, tips, tourism, twitter, wordpress | Comments

Twitter, Google, Facebook -Social Networks Join Hands to Help Make the World a Better Place | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Twitter, Google, Facebook -Social Networks Join Hands to Help Make the World a Better Place | The Daily Galaxy | News from Planet Earth and Beyond The Daily Galaxy, one of my all-time favourite websites, has a story about three big web giants, who has started an initiative where their ...

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17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners This is a very nice post over at doshdosh.com. I always find it difficult to try and convey to people the benefits of using a certain tool. I think it comes mostly from the fact that there ...

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Ubergeeks – The coolest geek project eva!!!

Monday, January 14th, 2008

There seems to be an irritating bug in WordPress where I work on a post and put pics in and everything and then when I press Save, only the subject line comes out. What's up with that? So this is the fifth time I am now doing this post over and ...

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