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Monthly archive February, 2008

South Africa nearing 1 million broadband connections

MyADSL reports that South Africa is nearing 1 million broadband Internet connections... South Africa is closing in on the one million broadband connection mark, mainly due to fast wireless broadband growth. Telkom’s ADSL service is still the leading broadband service in South Africa with around 400 000 subscribers. Vodacom’s 3G/HSDPA service is fast catching up to ADSL with 350 000 subscribers, and with a strong focus on broadband from Vodacom’s new Vodacom Business division 2008 may be the year where Vodacom surpasses Telkom in broadband subscribers. MTN’s has not released any 3G/HSDPA subscriber numbers recently, but it is estimated that Read More →

Living Dialogues podcast takes my spirtual understanding to new heights

The last few weeks I have spent travelling on the road. Firstly doing a series of talks for Pannar Seed International in Delmas and Klerksdorp and last week to Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. I felt really silly about that trip because I didn't know they had an airport in Nelspruit and so I ended up driving over 330kms from Johannesburg. This kind of driving is really good time for contemplating your life and the direction it takes or the challenges you are facing. Anyway one of the joy's in my life is discovering amazing new podcasts from time to Read More →

Business networking tips – How not to network

Today I conducted a trial run for my new business social networking workshop. It was well received overall and I'll be formally launching this in March. Anyone in sales, marketing or self-employed, entrepreneurs or small business owners will benefit from this workshop. In the mean time enjoy this hilarious clip... Read More →

Blogs in Plain English video

Lee Lefever has done it again with an excellent 3 minute video clip introducing Blogs to the lay audience. If you have seen his other Commoncraft videos you're gonna love this one...

And so if you are keen on blogging register for my monthly Blogging for Business seminars across South Africa or request a private training session for your company.

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The Connections Show, an excellent business networking podcast

Stan Relihan Sydney Autralia LinkedIn userThe Connections Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Stan Relihan, one of Australia's most connected LinkedIn users, and a professional recruiter based in Sydney. This is one of the most practically useful business podcasts I've discovered on the Web. And it's a real surprise that it comes from Australia, not America like most of the other podcasts I subscribe to using Apple iTunes. So far there's been 23 shows and I listen to them religiously. One of the motivations is that Read More →

From Attraction to Romance and back again

David DeAngelo, an American dating coach has a famous saying online, ?Attraction isn't a choice.? Those words in fact became the title of the 2nd ebook he published after the hugely successful Double Your Dating. Both of these books were the starting point for what has turned into my life purpose, improving my own dating life, and in turn helping others improve their dating and relationships. Let's starts by giving attraction a definition: the force that brings people together. Repulsion is what pushes people away. Thinking about magnets you realise how opposites attract and similarities push apart. However, in Read More →

Cellphone etiquette for people on the move from BulkSMS

cell phone SMS text messageAccording to Dr Pieter E. Streicher, managing director at BulkSMS.com, “We need an etiquette tailored for business people who communicate on the move. The increase in cellphone usage for work and private calls or messaging is becoming a source of irritation and psychological stress within, and outside, the workplace.” See below for BulkSMS.com's 10 tips on cellphone etiquette for the work environment. *10 Cellphone Etiquette Tips* 1. Use SMS to reduce the social intrusion of a call. When a cellphone call is replaced by an SMS message it is less intrusive Read More →

Anti child-porn alliance launched in Europe

by Chimwemwe Mwanza* Barcelona - How do mobile operators curb access to websites that pro-actively peddle pornography without interfering in the rights of subscribers? This is one of the biggest challenges facing European mobile operators particularly those in Norway and France. Alarmed at the rate at which children were easily accessing pornography sites, the GSM Association (GSMA) has formed an organisation called the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content to help curb minors' access to web-based pornography. "Do operators filter access to pornographic material - the result of which could easily cost them subscribers," asked GSMA chairperson Craig Erlich. Operators have less of Read More →

The Only Commandment this Valentine Day: Love Yourself

This post is a continuation of ideas I started exploring from Osho's Love, Freedom and Aloneness book... There is an belief that it's better to give then to receive, it's better to sacrifice yourself for the good of others, your country, your family or your children. Osho says this is a lie, a blatant lie. The priests and the politicians have held against you from the beginning of time. Even the Oracle at Delphi saying, ?Know Thyself? got Read More →

Google Calendar may be the best time mangement and online scheduling tool available

In the mobile world filled with hotspots and wireless, you will be stuck if you continue to use an old fashioned calendar. I stopped using them years ago. Maybe I've been lazy and I just never got into the whole "writing things down" habit. In the past I relied heavily on Microsoft Outlook's awesome calendaring and appointment scheduling functionality. In those years I was forced to rely on Microsoft products because the companies I worked for rolled it out as the company standard. These days I'm a convert to Open Source software models because I believe in the principles Read More →
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