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Touch Durban and Currie Cup Case Study
Touch Durban is a new Durban events guide that lives on Twitter. The project was launched two months ago and recently featured among the Top 10 South African Twitter Trends. Touch Durban saw the...
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Twitter stole my tweets!
So I made a very upsetting discovery the other day that Twitter has stolen 2285 tweets from my tweet count. On the 6 Novemeber I had 2300 tweets… My profile on the 6th November 2010 and the on the 10...
View ArticleCEO of twitter shares his experiences on building twitter
I found this video very interesting for one main reason. Twitter CEO, Evan Williams, understood the value of listening to the community around twitter in order to build the platform for it’s users....
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Generation Y in South Africa – A Short Study
Over the last month we ran a small study on Generation Y in South Africa. We interviewed 144 students with an average age of 18 years old. The gender split was 60% female and 40% male. As the size of...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Top Websites in 2011
I am always interested in how South Africans use the internet. Last year I wrote an article on the Top 20 Websites in 2010 and we found that South Africans were primarily interested (in general) in...
View ArticleTwitter releases Follow buttons for your website
Twitter just launched a button that you can add to your website that allows twitter users to click follow from your website and follow your twitter profile. To quote Mashable: “Previously, website...
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How social screening can help the recruitment process [infographic]
A while ago I wrote an article on how the recruitment industry was shifting due to social media technology. I would like to add to that conversation by talking about social screening. Social screening...
View ArticleThe Social Media Entrepreneur [series]
Over the past few months I have been blogging at www.ideate.co.za on I have used social media to build a business as an entrepreneur. I called it “The Social Entrepreneur” series which sounded cool at...
View ArticleSocial Media empowers Citizen Journalism
After my last article about the role of social media in journalism I received an email through a friend from a journalism lecturer who shared this TED video with me. The video is a great description of...
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