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08
Nov

The Social Media Entrepreneur [series]

By • November 8, 2011 • Case Studies, Entrepreneurs, Facebook, Linkedin, Social Media, Twitter • Leave a comment

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 the time but I have since found out the the “catchy title” was a but misleading. Either way I thought [...]

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04
Oct

How social screening can help the recruitment process [infographic]

By • October 4, 2011 • Facebook, Generation Y, Linkedin, Recruitment, Social Business, Twitter • Leave a comment

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 is the process of searching for potential candidates in social websites like Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter and “checking them out.” This [...]

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01
Jun

Twitter releases Follow buttons for your website

By • June 1, 2011 • Social Media, Twitter, Useful Code • Leave a comment

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 publishers had to redirect users to their respective accounts on Twitter.com before users could opt to follow them. The new feature will likely [...]

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14
Apr

South Africa’s Top Websites in 2011

By • April 14, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Facebook, Linkedin, Social Business, Twitter, YouTube • 8 Comments

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 information, entertainment and money. This year a few interesting developments may provide interesting insight into internet usage in South [...]

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28
Feb

Generation Y in South Africa – A Short Study

By • February 28, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Facebook, Generation Y, Generations, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube • 21 Comments

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 the sample group is relativley small this can’t be seen as the final word but [...]

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30
Nov

CEO of twitter shares his experiences on building twitter

By • November 30, 2010 • Twitter • 1 Comment

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. Essentially the platform was built by the same process that companies should use to build thier busienss profile on twitter.

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19
Nov

The effect of mobile phones on social media

By • November 19, 2010 • Facebook, Internet Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Twitter • 3 Comments

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10
Nov

Twitter stole my tweets!

By • November 10, 2010 • Social Media, Twitter • 7 Comments

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… and the on the 10 November I had 15 tweets!!! What is your tweet count? You tweet count is the total number of tweets you have ever [...]

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30
Oct

Touch Durban and Currie Cup Case Study

By • October 30, 2010 • Case Studies, Social Media, Twitter • 2 Comments

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 opportunity to leverage the Currie Cup by doing something that can only work on a social media platform. They supported another [...]

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20
Oct

If the twitter community were 100 people…

By • October 20, 2010 • Social Media, Twitter • Leave a comment

A fun look at what what twitter usership actually looks like on a global level. I guess they would call me a loud mouth!! If you would like to know more about twitter have you considered personal social media coaching?

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