A bad, sad weekend - 9 Nov 2009By Simone Puterman & Rod Baker
On a more cheerful note, public voting for The Bookmarks' Greatest Individual Contribution to Online Media and Marketing award, sponsored by The Spacestation, is now open until the end of tomorrow, Tuesday 10 November. This award aims to recognise and reward the individual who has contributed to the overall growth and development of our industry over the past year. The winner - to be announced at the awards event taking place at Movida in Johannesburg on Thursday 12 November [don't forget to book your tickets!] - will depend upon your votes in combination with the Online Publishers Association (OPA) Exco vote. The 11 shortlisted nominees submitted by the industry, in alphabetical order by surname, are: Prezence SA's Tim Bishop; 24.com's Matthew Buckland; Cambrient's Jarred Cinman; Habari Group's Adrian Hewlett; OMG Digital (OMD SA Online Division)'s Conrad Kakebeeke; AdVantage magazine's Louise Marsland; DigiVOX's Andrea Mitchell; Soccer-Laduma's Diogo Peral; Bizcommunity.com's Simone Puterman; Mail & Guardian Online's Chris Roper; and Quirk eMarketing's Rob Stokes. Go to www.bizcommunity.com/BookmarkAwards.aspx to cast your vote now. Simone Puterman & Rod Baker PS In this week's Ornico Ad Showcase, we feature TV ads for LG Boarderless, On Tap, Sanlam, Martini Rosato and Nando's, and radio ads for British Airways, Budget Insurance, Southern Sun, LG and SAA. | Simone Puterman
Simone Puterman (@SimoneAtLarge) is currently editor-at-large at Marklives.com. After majoring in psychology and linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her honours in psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing since 1997, with 7.5 year stints at both WriteStuff Publishing and Bizcommunity.com (March 2006-August 2013), the latter in the roles of senior sub-editor, assistant editor, managing editor and, lastly, editor-at-large). Simone is a member of the South African National Editors Forum, serving as deputy chair of the online editors subcommittee as well as being part of the media freedom subcommittee. A former IRC addict, she is passionate about computer-mediated communication and building communities, and has taken to social media like a duck to water. She also loves bright, rainbow colours and food. Email her at moc.sevilkram@enomis, follow @SimoneAtLarge on Twitter and connect with her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. |
It's bad, and sad, when a respected publication closes, and this weekend saw the last issue of BDFM's The Weekender, which had a lifespan of less than four years and became the latest victim of the recession. It was 