Tag Archives: social media
1 Min. With A Superhero: James And Neil, Co-Founders of My Destination
James Street and Neil Waller are the Co-Founders of My Destination. I had the opportunity to chat to the two founders about their company, social media and the economic downturn.
Established in 2006, My Destination is a start-up business that’s grown on a shoe string budget, out of the university dorms of their two Co-Founders, [...]
5 Social Media Ideas For The New Year
You know what social media is, but do you know how to maximize its potential in your life? Any entrepreneur worth his or her salt should be actively leveraging social media in order to harvest new ideas, monetize old ones, and send your financial endeavor on an arc of meteoric growth. Whether you’re in the [...]
Sir Richard Branson’s Eight Ideas To ‘Screw Business As Usual’
Saturday night saw the South African launch of Sir Richard Branson’s new book ‘Screw Business As Usual’, in Randlords Johannesburg. I attended with fellow Ideate reporter Yolandi Janse van Rensburg and managed to chat to the great man himself. He was his usual effervescent self, clearly loving the challenges of turning traditional business models on [...]
Why The Secrecy Bill Is Such A Stupid Idea
The proposed Protection of Information Bill is an exercise in purest futility. The Information Express left the station years ago and simply cannot be stopped. Just ask the Chinese or the American intelligence community.
In the past few days I’ve overheard, read and engaged in conversations about the new bill that’s currently before Parliament. Some excerpts:
”South [...]
Virgin Group Launches First Ever Global Social Media Marathon
Today, Wednesday, November 16th 2011, the Virgin Group is set to hold a global, company-wide ’social marathon’ at Facebook offices around the world. Facebook has opened its doors for one day only so that Virgin’s social media teams in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States can run each leg of the social marathon.
The 26-hour long, [...]
Inspiring Social Good Through Social Media
There is no denying that social networking is no longer “the next big thing,” it’s “THE thing” – with sites like Facebook now home to over 800 million active users and Twitter well over 200 million registrants. The numbers alone mean that it would be a huge mistake to overlook social networks as a viable [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: Thomas Kolster on ‘Goodvertising’
Today we’re talking to Thomas Kolster, who recently popped into South Africa from Copenhagen, Denmark. Thomas is a Danish advertising consultant and author of the upcoming book ‘The Bible of Goodvertising’. He talks about how to move from commitments to powerful, engaging communication that changes the world for the better.
Thomas explain the concept of [...]
SA Blog Awards Public Voting Phase Open: Vote For Ideate!
The public vote phase went live on Monday night with South African bloggers receiving their vote badges. The SA Blog Awards website saw an astonishing 900 votes within the first three hours of this phase. By midday on Tuesday more than 6000 votes had been cast.
The next ten days will see the readers of [...]
‘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 [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Use blogging to force your learning curve
As an entrepreneur you always need to learn. The process of learning is all about consuming data and organising it in some way that it can be useful. Here are two tips to better learning using social media:
Tip #1: Think it through
I started using blogging as a place to think through my ideas and [...]
