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BrandsEye Improves Accuracy Of Online Reputation Management
BrandsEye, the world’s only crowdsourced online reputation management service, has introduced a powerful new technique to its online monitoring application. BrandsEye Crowd now combines the benefits of three powerful elements: the all-knowing wisdom of the crowd, managed through the minute attention to detail of computers, and focused by the strategic judgement of trained professionals.
BrandsEye Crowd [...]
Manentine’s Day Launches Design Contest To Find “Manly Love”
Manentine’s Day, the holiday that takes place on March 14th and is like Valentine’s Day, but celebrates the man in the relationship, is launching a design contest to find the new signature Manentine’s Day contest design. The goal of this contest is to find a design that embodies the essence of what it means to [...]
Making Public Space Public
The Africa Centre’s, 5th annual Infecting The City Public Art Festival, takes to the streets and public spaces of Cape Town from the 6th to the 10th March 2012. The Festival is curated by Jay Pather, Director of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts at UCT. Transcendent, beautiful, challenging, ethereal and always free, [...]
MetropolitanRepublic Makes Pure Creative For Aveng Water
Aveng Water recently tasked MetropolitanRepublic to create a campaign for print and radio to showcase their water purification technology. The resultant creative was nothing short of attention-grabbing.
“We wanted to show that acid mine water treated with Aveng’s water purification technology was safe enough to be usable. We wanted to illustrate how something that is a [...]
No Glass Ceilings In Entrepreneurship
The term “glass ceiling” was coined in the late 1970s, which means that it’s been around for a full generation. It still pops up from time to time, because many women still find it more difficult to get to the top of the corporate ladder than men do. In fact the advancement of women into [...]
Creating Digital Artisans For SA’s Online Industry
The GROW academy, an initiative by the online industry to develop its own artisans, has just taken on its second batch of 20 trainees – and plans at least two more intakes by the end of 2012.
“There is a lot of work available for people with practical, useful skills in areas like search engine optimisation [...]
Two Thirds Of USA Youth Believe 2012 Will Be Better
Two out of three (67%) USA youngsters aged 15 to 25 expect 2012 to become a better year than the previous one. A mere 7% have a real pessimistic view on the coming year and thinks that maybe last year was better after all. This is why the USA Millennials are amongst the more optimistic [...]
New Research Shows HR Can Help Save The Planet
There is a finer link than one may think between human resources and natural resources – and better HR practice could help save the planet, recent research shows.
According to a statistic from the CRF Institute’s latest annual Best Employers Certification Index, if employees working flexitime for the listed companies worked from home for one day [...]
Capetonian Architect 1st SA Woman To Receive International Lifetime Achievement Award
A Cape Town architect has become the first South African woman to receive top international lifetime achievement award for architecture. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) this week announced that Cape Town architect Anya van der Merwe will receive one of its highest honours, a lifetime honorary fellowship and medal for lifetime achievement in architecture. [...]
How Cool Brands Stay Hot – Marketing Book of The Year 2011
We are happy to announce that ‘How Cool Brands Stay Hot’. from Joeri Van den Bergh and Mattias Behrer won the Marketing Book of The Year 2011 Award. The competition is organised by Expert Marketeer: the Marketing Book Club with online Discussion Forum. Expert Marketeer’s Advisory Board reduced a long-list of 50 books to a short-list of [...]
