Learn about social media in one-on-one or team executive coaching. Social media has become the most exciting shift in communication that business is currently experiencing. This shift spans across generational boundaries and has made a more convenient lifestyle for people as the socialize on the internet. Over the past year I have had the privilege [...]
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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 opportunity to leverage the Currie Cup by doing something that can only work on a social media platform. They supported another [...]
Coaching the South African Presidency in Social Media
Over the past few months The South African Presidency have been speaking about improving their communications to the South African public by getting involved in social media. In fact, I found out over twitter that this was a topic of conversation on 5fm a few days ago. I can confirm all the hype now after [...]
Is Facebook getting bigger than Google?
A few weeks ago I wrote on the Ideat blog that Facebook had the potentional to become the King of the Internet. This was highlighted by the fact the Facebook had been the most visited website in the US a week or two earlier.More recently Facebook has become the most popular searched brand in the [...]
What on earth is a Facebook Community page?
The biggest question I am asked as a social media coach has been “what should I use to promote my business? A page or a group?” Well now we have something new to consider: Facebook Community Pages What it looks like and why have one? A Community Page looks and feels exactly like a normal [...]
Harboring a healthy skepticism for the internet
I was thinking about the opportunity that exists on the internet the other day and I started to think about how many people have jumped into the internet and failed dismally. I think that this has happened because of a disregard of the hard work involved in running an internet marketing campaign or online business. [...]
Forget teenagers! Generation X use social media in South Africa
Bizcommunity posted an interesting article the other day that spoke about the Friendship 2.0 study that was commissioned by MWEB. The study showed a very interesting statistic: The average age of Facebook users in South Africa is 33; MySpace is 32; Twitter and YouTube come in at 31; and the youngest in the survey is [...]
Working for a great cause – LIV Village
LIV is a Non-profit organisation that I have had the good fortune of working with over the past few months. LIV has a powerful vision and a unique take on how to solve the problem of widows and orphans in South Africa. Their vision is: LIV provides holistic residential care for vulnerable children with the [...]
Breaking through the clutter on twitter
Twitter has millions and millions of user profiles. Each profile is doing its best to promote their message to their followers. As you can imagine this has become a fairly competitive place to promote yourself. Lets look into a few tips to help your twitter to break through the clutter of tweets, twits, twerps and [...]
Get your custom facebook vanity URL now!!
Vanity URL’s in Facebook are a neccessity to effective social media marketing The ability to create your own custom URL’s for facebook have been around since about June in 2009 but for some reason the South African public have been slow to catch on. Custom URL’s are possibly the most important aspect of your social [...]