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Here we go again. Another illustration involving South African president Jacob Zuma has the country in a froth. This time though, it's not a painting and it's not hanging in a prominent gallery.The work in question comes from satirical cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. In the cartoon, ...

South Africans took to social media en-masse as they looked to express their anger at the Protection of State Information Bill, commonly referred to as the "secrecy bill". Facebook and Twitter were not, however, the only online avenues used to protest the bill. A number of public institutions, news organisations ...

In another case of why employees need to watch what they say online, a journalism intern at the Mail & Guardian has been suspended for an anti-Semitic statement on Facebook, leading to a very public spat involving the publication's editor.The intern, Ngoako Matsha, in a Facebook conversation referred to fellow ...

With moves such as Facebook's addition of its new Journalism portal, "Journalists on Facebook", the importance of social networking and social media sites to journalism is something that is practically taken for granted. Though Facebook may be trying to muscle in on the journalist social network user demographic, the ...

Undoubtedly, the nature of news is changing with the advent and immense popularity of social media. Media is painfully aware it needs to be involved with the new social order to keep audiences engaged.Social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, provide people with additional channels to not only ...

Here is a perfect example of how a comprehensive semantic tagging strategy can add to a site's SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Just did a search on Wikipedia and Mail & Guardian -- the site I used to run back in the 50s :-). The results were interesting.Instead of the Wikipedia ...

If you want to know whose using Social Media in the corporate world, here is a list of 35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action from Mashable. If that's not enough for you, here is a further list of 130 Social Media Marketing examples from major companies. Some are ...

As the web 2.0 movement rolled on, the excitable hype mongers were already reading media’s last rites. The zealots proclaimed that the publishing model had changed, pointing to examples like Wikipedia, digg.com and the blogging movement.It’s now all about user-generated content and the wisdom of crowds, they say. The centralised ...

For the new Mail & Guardian Online that we are launching later next month we've had quite a few discussions and workshops about the navigation. It was a unanimous decision early on that we would opt for a top nav, discarding the left nav we currently have, which we feel ...

Did this interview Gareth Richards from Mags Magazine on online media...1 Can you give me your views on how important your online presence is to the newspaper? Has it grown more quickly/slowly than the paper version?At the Mail & Guardian we are in the fortunate position where both our newspaper ...