Tag Archives: Online social networking
‘Phenomenawesome’ Party Experiment: Using Social Media To Build Community
Chaos Computers is a leading supplier of computer hardware, software and accessories in the greater Cape Town area and have been using social media over the past year to build community and drive sales. Entrepreneur Riaan Swart, founder and MD of Chaos, has been a great exponent of digital media and has been pushing the [...]
What you need to know about Facebook’s latest change to Pages
This morning Facebook made some rather large changes to the way you administrate your pages on Facebook. You can now switch roles The most fundamental change is the ability to now change your role on Facebook. Facebook allows you to “switch your role” on Facebook and let your browse the Facebook network as an organisation, [...]
With Facebook Insights Comes Social Media Enjoyment
With so much variety whilst consuming digital media and so little time browsing through it all, we really should gain insight into who we are communicating with. If you have a facebook page and no “guru” running it for you, then you should utilise the tools available. If you receive a weekly email from facebook [...]
Top 3 social networks to market yourself on in South AfricaTop 3 social networks to market yourself on in South Africa
Entrepreneurs are always being spread to thin having to do all the work in the business. So with this in mind I though your would like to know the top three social networks that should give you the best return on your marketing effort online. Facebook Only because everyone is on Facebook. This is a [...]
How big is the network on Linkedin in South Africa?
It has been ages since my last post to Ideate and to be honest I have missed it. I left things off with two articles on Linkedin that looked at why you should and how you can start networking. Since the we have been doing some research into Linkedin usership in South Africa and found [...]
Start Networking on Linkedin
Linkedin has over 600 000 users in South Africa and over 30% of those people are in management positions or higher. Mike is the CEO of DigitLab, a digital marketing and social media agency, as well as Keynote Speaker and Social Media Coach at TomorrowToday. Google+ View more articles by Mike Saunders.
Did someone say Video?
Did you know that Youtube is the 5th largest website visited by South Africans? That means that Youtube is bigger than Twitter! yet for some reason business people and brand managers seem to think that South Africans don’t watch video on the internet. Something about bandwidth costs apparantly (Mweb and Afrihost seem to be sorting [...]
A new platform in Facebook: Community Pages
Facebook have released a new platform call community pages. I have expanded of what community pages are on my blog if you need to catch up a little. This article however looks at something important to consider now that Facebook has created and unofficial basis for discussing brands online. You see big brands have started [...]
Google – no longer the King of the Internet?
Two weeks ago Facebook received more traffic than Google in the US. Although this is a statistic about American traffic there is cause to believe that this is a sign of the future of the internet. Americans in general use the internet more than the rest of the world and have become the internet trend [...]
Social Media: Show me the money!
Jerry Maguire screams “SHOW ME THE MONEY” into the telephone to convince his client that he is committed to making him more money. Its a great scene by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise and is worth watching. If you need a little reminder then check this out. [youtube width="425" height="250"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaiSHcHM0PA[/youtube] Cuba Gooding Jr. basically [...]
