Bread made at a recent camping trip of ours. Right out of the potjie pot! I’ve been tagged by Quirk. This time, it’s for something that’s actually got a point, AND a good cause attached to it. It’s all about bread. Baking a loaf of bread. “The Worldwide Blogger Bake Off“. From Quirk’s blog: The [...]
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Bake Bread – Give Dough!
October 15th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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Converse blog – thoughts
April 29th, 2008 · 25 Comments
The guys at Cerebra have launched an initiative with one of my favourite shoe labels Converse (incidentally, my reading glasses are also Covnerse). I think that the idea around pulling the fans together is great. It’s a niche community that could fill a nice gap. What I find interesting is that there’s not one picture [...]
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Top 5 learnings for emarketers – New Media Marketing Conference 08
April 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments
[In return for a spare ticket to the New Media Marketing conference 2 weeks ago, I was asked to write a post for the Biz-Community blog. I've republished it below..] – The 2nd Annual New Media Marketing conference, which was held in Johannesburg 25 – 28 March 2008, was a showcase of a few of [...]
Tags: Conference coverage · Marketing · Social media · Web
Springleap competition and SEO’s dark side..
March 30th, 2008 · 18 Comments
Springleap, a locally based, recently launched site focussed on the design and selling of t-shirts, is running a competition where contestants have been challenged to get themselves to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) on a search for “Springleap“. Not a bad idea from a springleap side of things. I do have [...]
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Ananzi (the largest search engine??) now optimising for Google…
March 5th, 2008 · 26 Comments
I’d like to get some thoughts from the search optimisation community about this latest attempt from Ananzi to drum up some business… My initial questions: 1 – What the hell is Ananzi doing? 2 – Are Ananzi REALLY the largest search engine in Africa? 3 – Not really a question, but I’d like to say [...]
The dangers of creating Facebook pages
March 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Hello, You created a Page that has violated our Terms of Use, and this Page has been removed. Facebook Pages are special profiles used solely for commercial, political, or charitable purposes. Among other things, Pages that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group, [...]
Tags: BMW Related · Marketing · Social media · Web
The Robertson Spices ads
March 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Just caught this advert on tv this evening: I have a feeling “gooi it bokkie!” (it doesn’t translate directly too well but i suppose it’s pretty much the same as “shake it like a polaroid picture”) is going to experience similar popularity to Klipdrift’s “Eish“. excuse me while i go and “gooi it”..
BMW SA “Kinetic Sculptures” ad makes TED blog
February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The TED blog posted our advert this past week. I’m hoping that this will tip it over the 1 million views mark. I believe that this advert and it’s move to youtube played a huge role in the amount of publicity for Theo Jansen, who was one of the stars at TED 2007. The image [...]
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The SAA advert
February 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve been hearing all about this hilarious new SAA advert on TV. I can’t find it anywhere on the web. A lost opportunity for the power of viral i think. Probably some typical narrow-minded traditional ad agency thinking going on here. (i also looked for 1time and kulula in case it wasn’t SAA) Update: Mike [...]
Friday’s Jargon Buster
February 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Just got this spammy jargonated goodness from KAE. (…) KAE believes that identifying where your organisation sits in the corporate growth cycle – and whether a period of future growth or consolidation is on the cards – offers a useful means of prioritising your core marketing insight activity and spend. In our latest thinking, we [...]