AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE & FORESTRY [Food for Thought] There are plenty of fish in the sea. Or are there?© Sinisa Botas – 123RF.com | |
MARKETING & MEDIA SMG reports back on the Festival of Media[Lia Smit] I was fortunate to attend this year's Festival of Media in Rome. The Festival is dedicated to all those who deal with media from a global perspective... | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Don't make boardroom decisions without inviting the data scientistddpavumba via www.freedigitalphotos.net | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Loeries 2015] Agency expectations with... Hellocomputer[Leigh Andrews] In our feature running until Loeries Creative Week in Durban this August (yes, August, not September and Durban, not Cape Town!), we find out what Hellocomputer's Executive Creative Director, Simon Spreckley, expects... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA The truth behind 'the human truth' when extending brand identity[Marthinus Van Loggerenberg] "We need to be understood. We want to belong. We long to feel special. We crave more control over our lives. We dream of reaching our potential"... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA I'm not a communication strategist - I am a consumer advocate[Mogorosi Mashilo] We, as communication strategists, often get drowned by our own jargon, statistics, consumer mapping and landscapes that we forget the very essence of being an effective communication strategist... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Word-of-mouth marketing is deadImage via Fotolia | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Marrying new-age and traditional marketing skills[Farren Roper] The principles of marketing have fundamentally changed over the last decade and we continue to see the change year on year... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Warming up winter at Terroir[Eugene Yiga] If you're looking for hearty local cuisine to keep you warm this winter, look no further than Terroir. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT True friendship shines in You're Not You[Daniel Dercksen] You're Not You is a heart-warming and defiantly unsentimental and starkly moving portrait of a high-stakes friendship between two women - one literally in need of a voice, the other discovering the full power of hers. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Empowering women, one brand at a time[Leslie Pascaud] Women are everywhere. No surprise right? They do, after all, make up 50% of the world's population. Smart brands are getting in on the conversation, but several are missing the mark... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Online TV, live from Africa[Leigh Andrews] Two young, black females. One hot new online TV platform. Welcome to Aza TV, launched by Sorele Media on 20 May 2015... | |
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE & FORESTRY [Food for Thought] Feeding the nation© Elena Elisseeva – 123RF.com | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Naspers newspaper titles moving into 24.com makes sense[Chris Moerdyk] There has not been much media coverage outside of Naspers with regard to the decision to move all their newspaper titles onto the News24 and Netwerk24 platforms... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Verismo Met opera double bill on the big screen[Daniel Dercksen] Warm up your winter blues with opera's most popular double bill: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Behind the Selfie] with... Ndoni Khanyile[Leigh Andrews] This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Ndoni Khanyile, storyteller on stage, screen and print... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Marketers united!?[Rolf Akermann] The briefing by SAARF last week was interesting, as it revealed how other western countries do industry research. But I left the meeting, yet again, with a heavy heart... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Volvo S60 comes fully loaded[Luke Preston] When we were young, if your dad did ok in business, he bought a VW Jetta. If he did really well, he bought a BMW 3 Series, and if he did really, really well, he bought a Jag. Nowadays though, almost 90% of the business world is tied up in that fuzzy middle-management area and Jags are reserved for government people... | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Why your P@s$word is a failSalvatore Vuono via www.freedigitalphotos.net | |
HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT The danger of holding out for perfect optimisation[Su-Mari Du Bruyn] Too many businesses make the mistake of holding out for perfect optimisation. They want to wait until the business circumstances are perfect, until they are 100% sure that it will work perfectly... |