Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty

 Last year, I blogged about more efficient living in Johannesburg. This year, I plan to blog about something: my plan to solve poverty in Uitenhage over the next 20 years. All South African bloggers should get directly involved in Blog Action Day 2008 because poverty is the root cause of crime, health and all other […]

PR 2.0 Blogging Workshop with Marlon Parker's Team

 Tomorrow, I am training a team of loyal drug counsellors from Impact Direct Ministries on how to use blogging to get themselves onto television, radio, newspapers or magazines – all things I have done because of my blogging. They are learning fast and furiously about technology from Marlon Parker, senior lecturer at Cape Peninsula University […]

Ramon Thomas ends association with DBS Human Capital

 WITHOUT PREJUDICE I am in the process of issuing a letter of demand against directors, Nia Maritz and Peter Jeffrey as well as their company DBS Human Capital (Pty) Ltd (www.dbshc.co.za) for non-payment for organising the Women4Women conference on 5 October 2007 and work done in preparation of the next conference to be held on […]

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 […]