Tag Archives: social networking
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 [...]
Why Should You Care About Google Plus (video)
There’s been a LOT of buzz about Google’s new social network lately and feedback has been mixed. I’ve been checking it out specifically because of criticism over the past few years of Google not being able to compete in the social space.
Terms like ‘one trick pony’ have been levelled at the search giant, and [...]
Twitter advice for Entrepreneurs
I would like to share some advice for entrepreneurs who started using twitter in 2010. I did an experiment and created a video to share my 5 points.
Here are my 5 points to help entrepreneurs be better at Twitter in 2011.
Tyron Bache is a proud co-founder of Smashing Web Development, a professional website development company. Tyron [...]
The No. 1 Reason Entrepreneurs need LinkedIn
The biggest asset that any entrepreneur has is the network of people they know. You can have the best product or service, but if your networks don’t have the strength to make your ideas fly they will not take off.
Mike is the CEO of DigitLab, a digital marketing and social media agency, as well as [...]
The Second Silicon Cape Event!
Last week this time the Ideate team were at the second Silicon Cape event at the Old Biscuit Mill in Cape Town! We had such a great time so we thought we’d share it with you.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi [...]
Any whiskey drinkers out there? Ideate is giving away 2 Bushmills hampers – quick!
[NOTE: This giveaway is over. We have 2 winners: Adrian and Nic, well done chaps.] We’re huge fans of whiskey here at the company that I founded with another whiskey drinker (Mike Perk, guy in the pic)*. We’re pretty excited today, since Bushmills, the fabulous Irish Whiskey brand, have just dropped off two hampers of [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Charles Bryant of Ecopreneur
This week, we chat to Charles Bryant from Ecopreneur who happens to be focusing on something many of Ideate’s readers are very interested in: environmentally conscious business. Through our various channels, we get one to two enquiries a week on ‘green business ideas in South Africa’ – so Charles seems to be on a winning [...]
