A quick idea I thought I’d jot down for Muti, probably South Africa’s most popular social link sharing and voting site.
I imagine that one of the larger problems facing these voting type sites is that once the user has clicked on a link, he’s left Muti and needs to come back to cast his vote. […]

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[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..]
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The 2nd Annual New Media Marketing conference, which was held in Johannesburg 25 - 28 March 2008, was a showcase of a few of the top […]

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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 an […]

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The lovely Simone Puterman from BizCommunity couldn’t make it today so I managed to get the call up and be the “honourary-substitute-guest-blogger”.
I’ve been supplied with a wifi access voucher, and will be putting down my thoughts on the biz-community blog.
I’ve never really live-blogged anything. I twittered a few events at last week’s Interactive marketing summit […]

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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 that I consider this […]

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After losing my feed reader’s subscription file (yes i should have had it sync’d online), I thought it would be interesting to ask you to name and share your top 5 feeds. It can be anything from marketing to entertainment, to a picture a day.
Put your suggestions in the comments, feel free to discuss.
fire away!

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After being sent some work for approval, here’s part of the response i sent back to my agency. I thought they were words worth repeating…
- i’d like some text to accompany the 3 thumbnails below each section. I’ve been a long time anti-mystery meat navigation preacher, and for there to be no descriptions on navigation […]

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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 below tracks […]

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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 sent the link to […]

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