You may be interested in this interview I did with journalist and blogger Damaria Senne about self-promotion and building your own profile. A friend of mine once suggested that I offer this as a service to clients. So if you want to obliterate your competition and position yourself as an expert in your field or…
This is a speech I gave last night for my Toastmasters club… I only had my first girlfriend when I got to university, after high school. So I was a bit of a slow starter back then. Every weekend I would rely on my best friend and neighbour to give me a lift to and…
Today I learnt via the TED Blog about a great column on Steve Jobs’ presentation skills. The basics of it include the following factors: Go directly to the Business Week column here. And you can watch the speech directly from this link on Apple’s website. I watched the first 10 to 15 minutes of this…
Hot on the heels of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution, I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.
My mentor, Arthur Goldstuck, has just released his latest stats on Internet growth in South Africa. According to his annual study, growth has slowed down to 3% per annum, and by the end of 2007, we will have ONLY 3.85 million South Africans online. This includes the explosion of access since broadband became available a…