Blue Ocean 2.0

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by kateelphick in Uncategorized

Blue Ocean Strategy is a business concept developed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD that promotes the creation of new market spaces or “Blue Oceans” rather than competing in existing industries which they term “Red Oceans”.
Red Oceans are industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries are [...]

Free wireless internet hotspots in South Africa

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by admin in Lifestyle, Tech

Are you looking for free wireless internet hotspots in South Africa? I know I was, and it took me a little over an hour to aggregate the following information. I do hope this post goes some way to ensuring that you are never short of free wireless internet!
So I’m a bit of a coffee elitist, [...]

Profiling for Effective Enterprise 2.0

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by kateelphick in Uncategorized

To many organisations an Intranet is merely a repository for documents and some kind of informative web interface where news can be published. Unfortunately, this thinking governs how modern Intranets are being designed for the future and limiting their potential value to the organisation.
Despite having access to web 2.0 tools such as wikis or blogs, [...]

Blogging for Business

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by kateelphick in Uncategorized

As we start to see business blogging becoming more main stream, it is time that we turn our attention to how we can best use it in business. Here are six reasons to blog for business;

To promote your business brand;
To educate your audience;
To increase findability;
To demonstrate Thought Leadership;
To engage with your audience; and
Drive website traffic.

The reason [...]

The Red Bulletin

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by kojobaffoe in featured

a man on a bike hops over a fountain
machine in full rev in mid-air
he lands at the feet of those watching, to their delight
doing the seemingly impossible in a courtyard outside a nightclub in the day time
 
a b-boy defies the pull of the planet’s natural forces and hovers
for a brief second
as if suspended by the [...]

Is there a lunatic lurking around your office with matches?

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Craig Lubbe in Lifestyle Articles

There is such a person at my work. I work at bidorbuy, Africa’s Largest Online Marketplace. I’m a Category Administrator for Photography, Toys & Hobbies and Music & Instruments. I have also been involved in a project aimed at developing entrepreneurs in South Africa and on this project I met Telana.
Some call her the match [...]

Financial Ratios for Social Media

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by kateelphick in Uncategorized

Much has been written about the benefits of Digital Media to business, not the least of which is that it is highly measurable. We can see how many hits we have on a website, how many clicks through on an advertisement, how many members in a community, how many employees are blogging, but are these actually numbers which indicate Return on investment of time, resources and money? Not necessarily. They are merely potential precursors of transactions. In other words they are indicators that there may be additional transaction and revenue. So if we can see the numbers, how do we determine what value these measurement’s have and how to use them to forecast future success, or analyse past opportunities?

The Role of the Intranet in the Modern Organisation

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by kateelphick in Uncategorized

The Modern Intranet is changing the way that organisations conduct business, providing them with operational support, employee profiling, transparency and collaboration abilities that we have not seen before. As an integral part of how an organisation operates day to day, the Intranet should essentially serve five purposes:

Decision Support
Risk Mitigation
Innovation
Learning
Employee Engagement

Decision Support
Organisational flux, rising competitive [...]

Henry Rollins live in South Africa Again!!

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Lifestyle, Music, featured

Henry “Hank” Rollins – rock ‘n roll raconteur is back with his “Frequent Flyer” tour, all new stories, hilarious insights and anecdotes from a life so extraordinary that one lady said after the last show: “After watching Henry, I’m really not sure what I’ve spent my life doing…”
Now I attended his previous show in South [...]

La Muerte – South African Tequila

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Blogs, Food, featured

Harvested from organic wild agave plantations in the Karoo desert, slow fermented and quadruple distilled La Muerte South Africa’s very own Tequila is not called “the death” for nothing. Apparently, according to it’s creators it’s “the deadliest Margarita base ever”. Well the minute we get our hands on a bottle we’ll soon find out whether [...]