Leadership in a Technology-Driven World

 Leadership in a Technology-Driven World is a presentation I delivered at a conference. Worldwide, there is a crisis in education and schools, and perhaps even more so in Africa. All you have to do is open any newspaper, and you will read stories like this letter from a very concerned parent in the Namibian. This […]

Blogging Workshops at the 3rd annual Digital Citizen Indaba

 This year, I am attending the 3rd annual Digital Citizen Indaba, not as a speaker but as a workshop facilitator on Tuesday, 9 September. I will be leaving Grahamstown directly for two weeks in Johannesburg from 10-25 September. Anyway, here’s the event information directly from the horse’s mouth… The annual DCI is held at Rhodes […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]