Tag Archives: South Africa
New Restaurant Booking Site Launched In Cape Town
The launch of ‘Come Dine’, an online restaurant booking website, was announced in Cape Town this week. The site aims to give Capetonians access to +450 restaurants all at a click of a button. The website gives visitors the chance to browse all options available to them, as well as the ability to book a [...]
5 Steps To A Viral Mobile Campaign – Step 2: Cater For Quantity
What is viral reach? I see viral reach as a piece of content that’s passed on from one person to the next because they see some kind of value in it or have been entertained by it and want to share it with someone whose opinion they care about. People who send on viral [...]
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 [...]
The COPpuccino Overview Of COP17: Attendants Summarise Highs And Lows
South Africa has just hosted the most important annual event concerning environmental affairs, COP17. The event was not without controversy, but on the whole South Africans can feel proud of its contribution to a greener future.
Daily updates were provided in the form of COPpuccino videos, which we were watching avidly. Here is the final [...]
Celebrate South Africa: Jeremy Loops
We have some pretty insane skills in South Africa. One such example is the supremely talented Jeremy Loops, musician, songwriter, performer and singer. Loops would be annoying if he weren’t so good. His music seems so effortlessly catchy and uplifting that you can’t help feeling a little jealous of his abilities.
Check out his video for the song [...]
DA Youth Announces Winners Of Entrepreneurship Competition
Over the last three months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Youth has run a national competition to challenge young entrepreneurs to develop business plans for small enterprises.
National Youth Director, Aimee Franklin says: “We believe that by encouraging young South Africans to take control of their futures and become job creators, that we are making a [...]
5 Steps To A Viral Mobile Campaign – Step 1: Merge Left And Right Brain Thinking
I remember three years ago standing in my lounge chatting to a friend of mine who works at an advertising agency. She was telling me about how they build brands for Revlon. The fragrance analysts, or whatever you call them, come up with something that smells great and lives in a small glass bottle filed [...]
COP17 Businesses Challenge Politicians To Aim For The Crucial 2˚C Global Warming Limit
Businesses challenge low expectations at UN climate summit. Over 340 companies from 38 countries are urging politicians to defy low expectations at the UN Climate Change summit in Durban, South Africa, and agree a robust, equitable and ambitious global deal that keeps global warming below 2˚C.
The companies have signed the 2˚C Challenge Communiqué, which [...]
EUR 100m Boost For Green Electricity In South Africa
Investec has agreed with the European Investment Bank to establish a EUR 100 million renewable energy funding facility. This will promote clean energy generation and energy efficiency initiatives in South Africa in line with the government’s recent Green Economy Accord.
Investec and the EIB are equal partners in the programme with each contributing EUR50 million.
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How To Build An Engaged Online Community
To end off 2011, digital marketing agency World Wide Creative is running it’s last Heavy Chef Session of the 2011 in Cape Town. The event features two of Cape Town’s favourite speakers, Dave Duarte and Fred Roed, focusing on one of marketing’s hottest topics: building an online community.
Dave Duarte is one of South Africa’s best [...]
