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This conference wants to give you R3k for a slogan
Think you’re the next big thing in copywriting? Well then you could win yourself a tidy bit of cash.The upcoming Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Conference is offering R3 000 for anyone who comes up with a slogan for the next iteration of the conference. The winner will also get a ticket to IMC 2013.According to Jaco van Zyl of conference organiser Living Your Brand:The slogan needs to incorporate the idea of integrated marketing communication, synergising ...Net Prophet 2012 [Live blog]
Net Prophet is a platform for ambitious, creative entrepreneurs and thought leaders to share their ideas and experiences with innovators in web-based businesses. Speakers at this year's event include CEO of Mobilitrix, Chris Rolfe, Christo Davel (CEO of 22seven) and social entrepreneur and co-founder of Oneleap Robyn Scott.Live your brand at IMC Cape Town
These days everyone’s a marketer. We’re all trying to sell something, even if it’s only ourselves. Very few us have traditional training in the field, so it pays to get all the help we can get.That’s where events like the Integrated Marketing Communications Conference (IMC) come in.The conference which is set to take place of 5 and 6 June in Cape Town, claims that it will “cover all aspects of marketing, media, online and much more”.Conference organisers ...14 International events and a startup exchange for your calendar
The last post I wrote featured seven, which later became nine, South African events worth attending to grow your startup. If you have started building a product or platform that you deem worthy of international exposure, which I’m sure it is, then you may want to attract the attention of investors, mentors and innovators worldwide.Here is a list of 14 events and a startup exchange programme you may want to consider:1. South by Southwest (SXSW)One of the most talked ...Tech-Ed kicks off with Azure, Office 365, Windows 8
Microsoft is going through an exciting phase of innovation, says Microsoft corporate vice-president for Visual Studio, Jason Zander. The company's aim, he claims, is to build connected devices focusing on elastic resources, composable services and to take away the worry from the cloud by making it more secure through carefully controlled access.Zander addressed an audience of more than 3 000 people at the opening keynote of this year's Tech-Ed conference in Durban South Africa.Tech-Ed Africa is billed ...Technology, a language not an industry: Discovery Invest Leadership Summit
"We have technology that not even the wildest science fiction writers could have believed," said Adrian Gore, opening the Discovery Invest Leadership in South Africa yesterday.Al Gore's comment that the iPhone version is due for release next month generated headlines across the web, but the context of the summit contained some far bigger themes: notably the rise of technology and emerging markets.The environmental crusader and former US Vice-President (who is also on the board of Apple), joined economist Nouriel ...TEDx Soweto: ‘Delve deep into the conversation about our future’
TED started out as a group of bright minds meeting up every year in Monterey, California 25 years ago. The principle behind it was simple: "Ideas Worth Spreading". These days it’s an international phenomenon with conferences bearing the famous TED logo taking place all over the world. These conferences include the TED Global and TED X streams.The TEDx stream, while licensed by TED is independently organised.Soweto, Johannesburg will be hosting its second TEDx conference at the end of September. ...The holy grail of marketing — Tapping into the social matrix [WordCamp]
"Community means building a grid. Attracting, converting and retaining loyalty. Community marketing means building an active social matrix which ultimately allows the community to work for you." These were the words of Fred Roed, one of the many speakers at Wordcamp Camp Town 2011.WordCamp is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, developers, programmers, designers, podcasters, coders and tech-heads.We investigated both tracks of the conference, the publisher track which focused on blogging, content creation as well as light SEO ...How a flexible and scalable website is key to prolonged success [WordCamp]
The combination of scalability and flexibility is becoming more and more prevalent, encouraging a single web presence that is not only ubiquitous but adaptable to almost any platform available.
This and similar notions were common in most speaker presentations at this year's WordCamp held in Cape Town, South Africa.
A resounding concept brought to light by Jason Bagley, was introduced to the crowd in the form of some insightful rendering of CSS to provide websites with a flexible architecture. The ...Experience WordCamp Cape Town 2011
Some 20 renowned speakers will take to the stage when WordCamp Cape Town 2011 kicks off on the 15th of September.WordCamps are community-organised conferences, where discussions take place surrounding the blogging platform, WordPress. This will be Cape Town's second WordCamp to date.The conference is popular for allowing users to share ideas, learn about the challenges associated with Wordpress and participate in its development. WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg organised the first WordCamp in San Francisco in 2006. He was also ...
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