More awards, more conferences, more hot air? - 15 Nov 2010By Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz)
But that's not all: still to be held are the SAB Environmental Journalists of the Year Awards this Wednesday 17 November, the Bookmarks on Thursday 18 November, the 2010 AdFocus Awards (advertising) on Wednesday 24 November and the Webber Wentzel Legal Journalist of the Year Awards on Tuesday 30 November. Feel free to email me if I've left any out... Anyway, apart from all these endless awards, the SABC soapie continues. Ad nauseum. One day things are looking up with the new communications minister, Roy Padayachie; the next day, not. More changes in ad agency management structures have been announced (Y&R Brands South Africa, The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town,Universal McCann). And the fight for our media freedom in South Africa still continues. What a year! Congrats to the deserving! Corrected at 10.15am on 16 November 2010: Ogilvy Johannesburg created Selinah, not Ogilvy Cape Town. Bizcommunity.com apologises for the error. | 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+. |
After this year, I'm coming to the conclusion that it's awards season perpetually in South Africa - if it's not the local award shows for the marketing, advertising and media industries, it's all the international ones. So, last week, 