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27Dinner talk, Mutual-Aid between African Bloggers
Blogging 33
1364 days ago Ramon Thomas

27Dinner talk, Mutual-Aid between African Bloggers

Thank you very much to Dave Duarte and Max Kaizen who have both supported my drive to create stronger relationships between South African bloggers and those bloggers from the rest of Africa. This has nothing to do with with the Xenophobia attacks, although it will restore tremendous goodwill that has always been there in the blogging community - most South African bloggers may not have been aware of this until this talk at the bi-monthly 27Dinner event in Cape Town.

I delivered for me one of the most important messages since I began blogging in Read More →

SMS Dictionary – show kids that you seek first to understand
Cellphones 12
1364 days ago Ramon Thomas

SMS Dictionary – show kids that you seek first to understand

Elzaan Rohde from Sentient Communication passed this tip onto me from a Google Alert: I am a very big fan of cell phone SMS (aka text) messages because of my voicemail. I can send SMS with one hand, driving and not even looking at my screen, switching between predictive text and normal typing. Heavy users of SMS messages developed their own shorthand way of talking and not only teenagers use it. In fact there's a long history of abbreviations from the earliest chat platform on the Internet, IRC. This is because SMS text messages are limited Read More →
Peter Sondergaard sets the stage at Gartner Africa Symposium 2008
Internet 61
1374 days ago Ramon Thomas

Peter Sondergaard sets the stage at Gartner Africa Symposium 2008

Today is the opening of the annual Gartner Africa Symposium held annually at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). Rene Jacobs, the Managing Director of Gartner Africa welcomed over 1200 delegates to this 3-day tech-fest. The conference runs in parallel to the with an expo from technology vendors. We have met before at the Computer Society's annual IT Personality of the Year award, for which Gartner is a partner. There is over 1,200 business and IT leaders at the Symposium. The theme of this year's conference is about Leadership. According to a Gartner survey, over 70% of CIO's Read More →
Live-Blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium 2008
Events 136
1374 days ago Ramon Thomas

Live-Blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium 2008

For the next few days I am live-blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Here's what you can read more about on my NETucation business blog:

The Economist Intelligence Unit has declared 2008 to be the year of the emerging market. They are not alone in this prediction. Emerging economies present companies with some of the biggest opportunities for growth this year. And this doesn’t refer just to China and India.

In fact, the three most buoyant economies in the world are on the continent of Africa. Read More →

Qhubeka moving South Africa forward with Nine Million Bicycles
Personal 28
1375 days ago Ramon Thomas

Qhubeka moving South Africa forward with Nine Million Bicycles

The song Nine Million Bicycles by Katie Melua is perhaps not the most inspirational song in the world. However, it does make you feel good, if you are even just a little bit as nostalgic as I am. Recently the Facebook social networking website has moved from a boring distraction to a powerful communication tool for me in the last two months. I cannot say exactly what the trigger is; maybe it is simply connecting with like-minded people directly and just in time. One of those people is Anthony Fitzhenry whom I first met in May Read More →
How not to network videos
Humour 24
1375 days ago Ramon Thomas

How not to network videos

More examples of how not to approach business networking events. Essential networking skills are missing from these video's. You can view more of these videos on the Kintish Youtube Channel:
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How to choose ISP or consumer Internet access in South Africa
Broadband 13
1377 days ago Ramon Thomas

How to choose ISP or consumer Internet access in South Africa

ADSL modem and network cable unpluggedThis is a portion of an interview for Huisgenoot magazine from 2007. I'm not even sure if it was ever published because the journalist was forced to redo the initial interview, which focussed on Skype to include a few questions about Internet access. 1. What are the different Internet access options available to South African consumers? Dial-up: is the original mechanism used by home users to connect to the Internet access. Your computer connects to the Internet via telephone line. Your operating system like Read More →
Imitating successful people can create our own success
Insights 3
1379 days ago Ramon Thomas

Imitating successful people can create our own success

By Lloyd Thomas Elvis Presley Successful PeopleAchieving success in any endeavour follows a definite pattern. If you wish to be successful at anything, it is wise to identify people who have already been successful, learn what they have done, then do the same things. Only after you have developed their skills within yourself is it wise to add your own personal creativity to what you do. I refer to this method for creating success in life as imitating the masters. All children imitate the masters, practice what they see others Read More →
Algoa Sun interview with Ramon Thomas
Interviews 10
1381 days ago Ramon Thomas

Algoa Sun interview with Ramon Thomas

The following interview was published on page 8 of the 31 July 2008 issue of the Algoa Sun, a community newspaper in Port Elizabeth. The title for the article was fascinating choice by the editor, The Ethics of IT Dating. I will add a scanned copy of the interview with their own intro to this post later today...

Question: You say that children below the age of 13 should not have cell-phones for health reasons do you not think that in todays world all kids should have access to an adult in case something does go wrong?

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Worm attacks Facebook, MySpace users running Microsoft Windows
Social Networking 31
1384 days ago Ramon Thomas

Worm attacks Facebook, MySpace users running Microsoft Windows

Facebook Worm ScreenshotGareth Roberts, a new member of the team here at NETucation,  alerted me to a new computer worm that attacks Facebook and MySpace users. One very important piece of information left out of most of the news reports on News24 or MyADSL is that ONLY on users running Microsoft Windows are prone to this attract. Facebook users receives links to download the worm via Inbox messages from infected users while links are posted in MySpace commentaries Read More →

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