Blog Action Day 2007 – More efficient living in Johannesburg
A while ago, I joined the Blog Action Day campaign, and I wasn’t sure what I might write about. However, as I’m in Durban, sitting in my hotel room, I’m feeling exceptionally relaxed. You see in Johannesburg, the stress levels are likely to be among the highest in the world. Crime is one of the […]
Calling for a Business Blogging Conference in South Africa
Early in September, I was a speaker at the 2nd Digital Citizens Indaba. Last year, this conference was immensely valuable to me because it presented an opportunity to meet many of my fellow bloggers from across the African continent. This year me I realised the greater need to teach people how to use blogging to […]
How is online social networking websites impacting children's ability to communicate
This morning I was interviewed by Jeremy Maggs on the After 8 Debate (SAFM). The question on this debate is: are online social networking tools, such as Facebook, MXit & MySpace retarding our children’s ability to communicate? Lynne Cawood, director of Childline Gauteng and Steven Ambrose, director of World Wide Worx Strategy, were also on […]
African Bloggers monthly SkypeCAST for August 2007
This month we discussed the importance of Social networking profiles and how to link it with your blog. For the last few months, since TEDGlobal and Henry Addo, a blogger from Ghana, and I have been having regular discussions via Skype on Blogging. Currently, Skype allows a maximum of 9 people on a Conference Call […]
Something happened on the way to the front page
Early in 2006 I was featured in the now defunct Nova newspaper and about a week later the paper shut down. Back in 2004 I was featured on the front page of ThisDay newspaper and shortly afterwards it was also shutdown. Now if I was superstitious I would think those were bad omens for me. […]