Freek Robinson offers tips for successful interviews with Media
Marketingweb posted an excellent summary of points by Freek Robinson, a long time television presenter in South Africa. He gives the following excellent tips on how to conduct yourself during and interview. And I found this particularly useful as the frequency of my radio and television interviews are consistent and as new projects come about […]
The Attention Age Doctrine
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 slow starter back then. Every weekend I would rely on my best friend and neighbour to give me a lift to and from […]
Lessons from Steve Jobs on making a excellent pitch in your Presentation
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 […]
A civilized list when not to use email
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.
The lack of Email Netiquette as the Internet grows in South Africa
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 is including the explosion of access since broadband became available […]