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1Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a wa... more
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2Mvelase Peppetta
Mvelase is a graduate of UCT with a Bachelor of Social Sciences majoring in Politics & History. He has a blog, which sadly he often forgets exists. He concerns himself with the important things in life:
Left wing social issues; politics, both international & local; television, the trashier... more
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3Jeremy Daniel
Jeremy Daniel was the editor of www.memeburn.com, and a firm believer in the transformative power of mobile technology for emerging markets. Jeremy has written across various media platforms for the last 10 years, from television to advertising to print before making the permanent cultural leap into... more
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4Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter
Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every now and again.... more
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5Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who isn't afraid of the sun. An honors in English at the same institution failed to curb this. An MA in South African Literature, still... more
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6Martin Carstens: Staff reporter
Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, and currently a large financial services company in South Africa.... more
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7Rowan Puttergill: Columnist
Rowan Puttergill is a technology evangelist and software engineer with a long career working in enterprise environments. He brings with him the experience of being the Technical Editor at SA Computer magazine, and a career history as a technical author. He is a huge advocate of open-source technolog... more
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8Steven Norris: Staff reporter
Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Claremont, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an SEO copywriter, learning the ropes the hard way before utterly mastering them. H... more
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9Graeme Lipschitz: Columnist
Graeme Lipschitz is a Business Development manager at Clicks2Customers.com. He has previously worked for Google UK and Google South Africa as a lead account strategist, growing accounts in the Travel, Finance and Retail sectors.... more
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10Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley
Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist and the Founder and Publisher of Silicon Valley watcher, which is an online news site reporting on the business of Silicon Valley and the culture of disruption.... more
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11Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist
Joseph C Lawrence has had lots of thoughts for a while now about the way in which evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us improve the way we experience the web. Understanding the way our minds work and process information can give us amazing insights about web design, web marketing, and we... more
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12Matthew Buckland: Publisher
Matthew Buckland is a web guy who has over the years worked in a programming, editorial and business capacity within the online media environment. He now dedicates his life and soul to Creative Spark and Memeburn.com. He was previously General Manager of ... more
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13Hilton Tarrant: Columnist
Hilton Tarrant is production editor at Moneyweb. His main focus is project management for the listed company’s local and international websites, and contributes to their strategic direction. From time-to-time, he also fills in for Alec Hogg on the SAfm Market Update with Moneyweb radio programme. ... more
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14Catherine Murray: Columnist
Catherine is currently the Operations Manager at Creative Spark Interactive in Cape Town, where she is attempting to whip everyone into shape at breakneck speed. Prior to this she was Head of Online at Atalink Ltd, a specialist publishing company based in Central London for 5 years, where she manage... more
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15Keet Van Zyl
Keet specialises in niche financial services and has worked at dynamic international companies such as Procter & Gamble and Investec. He was also responsible for structuring, funding and monitoring various private equity funds in the Southern African region before joining HBD Venture Capital. In... more
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16Matthew Stone: Columnist
Matthew Stone is a smart guy in Research and Analysis at The Rubiks Room (TRR). Matt supplies sick beats and writes a lot when he’s not exploring the intimate regions of the Internet and its citizens. You can hire him to be a CPR training model.... more
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17Erik Hersman: In Kenya
I grew up in Kenya and Sudan. I’m one of those guys who’s much more “at home” in Africa, and I currently live in Kenya. I’m happily married and have 3 beautiful little girls that keep me on my toes. I write two main blogs: White African is my personal blog where I write about high-tech mob... more
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18Jonathan Houston
Jonathan Houston is passionate about digital marketing and digital strategy. During the day, Jonathan fulfills the role of Online Marketing Manager at Talooma where he strives to ensure that all their clients receive the best marketing ROI possible. Jonathan’s work at Talooma includes strategy con... more
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19Sarah Britten
Sarah Britten is the strategic planning director at Y&R Johannesburg.
Her relationship status is hidden.... more
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20Christopher Lazley
Chris Lazley is interested in how technology affects the way people relate to one another across all kinds of contexts. He studied English and Law at the University of Cape Town, spent some time in Berlin, and then worked as a copyeditor and business journalist. Chris finds most of his inspiration f... more
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21Amanda Sevasti: Columnist
Amanda Sevasti is the content and social media manager at 4D Euro RSCG. She was a through-the-line copywriter for eight years, working at both Ogilvy and Draftfcb, but finds the online side of advertising a lot more fun. Amanda also freelances for various publications and has a Mail & Guardian T... more
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22Wikus Engelbrecht
Wikus Engelbrecht is a writer, journalist and digital poet at GraphicMail, an international email and mobile marketing service provider. His professional career in language and media has spanned the film, print advertising, magazine publishing, food theater and online content industries since 2003.... more
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23Walter Pike
The founder of PiKE | New Marketing, consulting to Marketers and Ad Agencies about how brands develop in an always on, always connected world. AND The founder of The Digital Academy actively creating the talent pool we will need to be successful. ONCE an Orange Farmer, Racehorse breeder, Polo player... more
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24Matt Cohen
Matthew Cohen is a web developer, WordPress enthusiast, avid musician, music lover and blogger. He enjoys coding WordPress plugins and themes, custom web-based applications and playing guitar to a good beat.... more
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25Sheena Gates
Sheena Gates, also known as SheBee, started out as a personal blogger, which lead her to Facebook, which lead her to Twitter, which lead her to the business of that social media thinger everyone's always talking about. Officially employed by aqua online, Sheena spends her days heading up the social... more
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26Andrew Craucamp
Religious sceptic, professional consumer and full time developer. Andrew is an avid open source enthusiast and keen follower of the big players in the information sector. He sternly supports free media, free information and copyleft principals and hates writing about himself in the third person.... more
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27Ryan Gordon
Ryan sees things in binary, which is a handy super power for any coder, even better if you can apply it to your world view. With a BCOM (Hon) Information Systems from UCT freshly behind him, Ryan joined the Creative Spark team as a Web Developer where he is encouraged to share his unique take on our... more
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28Georgia Christian
Georgia Christian is the editor for the online Email Marketing service Mail Blaze. She is responsible for communicating Mail Blaze’s five plus years of industry experience and accumulated knowledge into the market. Experienced in all facets of email marketing Georgia has been tasked with collatin... more
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29Catherine Parker
Catherine Parker is a social media and search consultant and web copywriter. Via her first love, copywriting, she fell into the search engine marketing industry, working at Quirk eMarketing in Cape Town, followed by Greenlight Marketing in London, and then iProspect in San Francisco. Most recently, ... more
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30Yoav Tchelet
Yoav Tchelet heads up Digital for JWT in South Africa. He has spent the better part of the last 12 years in various digital roles and projects including founding a digital agency, working with some of the largest brands in SA and abroad and has been involved in a number of internet startups locally.... more
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31Roger Hislop: Gearburn editor
Roger started life as an electrical engineer, then became a journalist. He then spent the next twelve years his work life being terribly nice to people as he was paid to. That stopped. Now he's paid to be unrelentingly honest. Luckily, all those years in PR taught him how to spot weasely product des... more
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32Thomas Crampton: In China
As Asia-Pacific director of 360 Digital Influence for Ogilvy, Thomas Crampton heads a team stretching across 23 cities in 15 Asian territories that helps companies conceive, develop and execute strategies in Social Media.

Prior to joining Ogilvy, Mr. Crampton spent 18 years as a globetrotting new... more
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33Melissa Chetty
Melissa Chetty completed a BA in Film and Media Production at the University of Cape Town in 2006 and specialised in Interactive Media. She started her career selling print and online advertising for the Filmmakers Guide to Service Companies of the World and took over the role as website manager. An... more
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34Marc Forrest
Marc Forrest is a blogger, techie, Apple fan boy and dad to three gorgeous kids. He started blogging in 2004 after being inspired by the Joblog.co.za team in Johannesburg, and started a blog called Durbzblog. After realising in 2007 that he needed his own identity, he set up MarcForrest.com, whic... more
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35Niel Bekker: In New York
Niel writes about and studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is a graduate student at Jay Rosen's Studio 20 Program at New York University. In the past, Niel has worked in Cape Town, where he was employed first as a music writer for Channel24 & Speakerbox.... more
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36Kimberley Myers
Kimberley Myers is a passionate writer obsessed with social media and current affairs. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in English, Media & Writing and Film Studies from the University of Cape Town in 2010, she quickly made her jump into the real work to learn from experience. She now works w... more
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37Dan Zarrella
Dan Zarrella is an award-winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist at HubSpot and author of two O’Reilly Media books: “The Social Media Marketing Book” and The Facebook Marketing Book.

He has a background in web development and combines his programming capabilities with a passio... more
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38Tony Seifart
Tony Seifart is in love with Online Marketing. And he’ll share that passion with just about anyone who is willing to listen.

Tony runs seminars and workshops throughout South Africa helping SMME’s fully utilize the Internet in marketing their business, developing online strategies and using t... more
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39Herman Manson (@marklives)
The inaugural Vodacom Social Media Journalist of the Year in 2011, Herman Manson (@marklives) is a freelance business journalist and media commentator who blogs at www.marklives.com and his writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines locally and abroad. He also co-founded Brand magazine and is ... more
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40Craig Bruton
Originally studying Information Technology, Craig developed an interest in design and online media, and moved from business software programming into the more innovative world of online and digital media. Craig opened Refresh Creative Media in 2001 with Graham Shillington, with the objective of crea... more
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41Matthew Ncube
Matthew Ncube is a paid search rockstar living and working in London. He ploughs his trade by day managing global PPC accounts and thus sadly has a knack for quality scores, pivot tables and vlookups. A mathematician, hooked on trend data, he has been a Hitwise Power User for as long as he can remem... more
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42Craig Raw
Craig is the founding CTO of Quirk, the digital agency. A programmer since the age of six, Craig believes strongly in using technology to educate, create jobs and improve lives. As such, he's created numerous pieces of software over the years, including the online reputation management tool BrandsEy... more
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43Leonard Ah Kun
Leonard Ah Kun is a mobile application development specialist and interaction designer. He has a M.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. During his studies, his research focused mainly on creating engaging experiences with mobile devices. This included using a mobile phone'... more
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44Steven Ambrose
Steven Ambrose is the CEO of Strategy Worx. Strategy Worx specialises in strategic consulting and decision support for organisations seeking to pursue hi-tech strategies. Strategy Worx is licensed to conduct the Webagility Web Site Auditing system by World Wide Worx.

Steven is a rather lateral t... more
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45Karen Jeynes
Karen Jeynes is a writer, arts manager, lecturer, and general wrangler of words. Predominantly aplaywright, but sometimes she writes for websites, magazines, radio, television, novels, or newspapers.

She’s pretty indiscriminate. She lectures in Digital Culture; and teaches scriptwriting at SA... more
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46Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent
Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg ... more
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47Shawn Graaff
From the depths of classics libraries and American academia, Shawn is a South African based web enthusiast accused of fingers being in too many pies. A Quirk Certified eMarketer and servicing a variety of clients in Digital Strategy, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Content Strat... more
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48Basheera Khan
Basheera Khan is a user experience designer with an interest in information architecture, interaction design and content strategy across multiple platforms.

A former journalist, Bash has written for ITWeb and Brainstorm in South Africa and TechCrunch Europe and the Telegraph in the UK.

These d... more
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49Mark Kaigwa
Mark Kaigwa is a Creative Director and Marketing Consultant born and based in Nairobi. Mark co-wrote the award-winning Warner Bros. videogame 'Pamoja Mtaani’ (Together in the ‘Hood) their groundbreaking first African videogame project as well as 5 Animated short films for Warner Bros. Animation.... more
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50Jarred Cinman
Jarred Cinman is a founder and Director of Cambrient, one of South Africa's most prominent and successful digital development agencies. He has been in the digital industry for over 15 years, having founded his first business in 1995 fresh out of his Philosophy degree – a qualification that made hi... more
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51Nadia Neophytou: In New York
Nadia Neophytou is a New York based South African journalist most known for her work as the Entertainment Reporter for Eyewitness News, which is broadcast on Talk Radio 702, 567 Cape Talk, Highveld Stereo 94.7 and Kfm 94.5. She is now based in New York, as their US correspondent. Nadia also contribu... more
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52Alexandra Fraser
Alexandra Fraser joined Invenfin, an early-stage venture capital firm wholly owned by Remgro in 2009, after completing her Masters in International Business and Emerging Markets (cum laude), at the University of Edinburgh’s Business School.

Her degree focused on finance and technology manageme... more
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53Jess Green
Jess Green is a group buying specialist and MD of South Africa’s highest quality social commerce website – UbuntuDeal.co.za. Started in 2010, UbuntuDeal was acquired by bidorbuy and continues to offer businesses and consumers unparalelled online marketing campaigns. Jess loves the social commer... more
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54Sam Beckbessinger
Sam likes anything she can take apart and put back together again. This makes her a big fan of Linux and rusty old cars. She is a Digital Planner at Quirk, which is her dream job because it allows her to obsess about the internet, work with some fabulous clients on creative marketing strategies and ... more
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55Graham Shillington
Graham is co-owner of Refresh Creative Media along with Craig Bruton. He loves ideas, design, technology, human potential and his wife. He is also into kitesurfing, climbing and running.... more
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56Debré Barrett
Debré Barrett is a User Experience Consultant at Flow Interactive. She advises clients on usability, user-centred design and communication strategy. She has a journalism degree from Rhodes, and spent many years as an online news journalist in South Africa and the UK. Before returning to SA in 2007,... more
Debré Barrett's posts have been read 47880 times
57Kyle Redelinghuys
'By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe'. This is a motto that Kyle Redelinghuys lives by. With a keen interest in technology and society, he aims to be ever insightful into the inner workings of various aspects of life. His likes include innovation, passion and chocolat... more
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58Loy Okezie
Loy Okezie is a digital marketing strategist and founder of Startups Nigeria, the first online technology startup community in Nigeria. He has consulted for several small and mid-size companies and helped start-up CareersNigeria.com, one of the leading job portals in Nigeria in 2007. He writes a col... more
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59Vincent Maher
Vince is the CTO and co-founder of Motribe , a mobile community platform. Previously he was the portfolio manager for social media and the commercial manager for mobile advertising at Vodacom, the strategist at the Mail &Guardian Online and creator of Amatomu.c... more
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60Sarah Duff
Sarah Duff got her first taste of the digital world at RamsayMedia, where she created and manages the social media strategies for Getaway Magazine. When not travelling around Southern Africa, writing and taking photographs for Getaway, she is strategising and p... more
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61Chuma Kave
Chuma Kave is a radio producer, lecturer, blogger and a social entrepreneur. He recently founded an organisation called Rebels of Poverty, and believes that education, culture of ideas and curiosity will not only save today’s generation, but will take us towards an Africa which is free and prosper... more
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62Sifiso Mazibuko
I am simple Zulu boy hailing from Durban KwaZulu Natal who is currently in search of a woman that can cook samp and beans the way my mom used to. Professionally, I’m the Facebook National Account Manager at Habari Media. My job is to evangelise and spread the word about how brands can leverage Fac... more
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63K.F Lai
Dr K.F Lai is co-founder and chief executive officer of BuzzCity, one of world’s leading mobile media companies in the development and marketing of mobile services and entertainment to a global audience.

Established in 1999 in Singapore, BuzzCity’s business focuses on two distinct audiences:... more
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64Mike Sharman
Mike Sharman is the owner of multi-award winning agency Retroviral Digital Communications, an online communications consultancy that advises brands how to communicate with their target markets online, and executes strategies, while supporting their business objectives.

Clients have included Mille... more
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65Jason Adriaan
Jason Adriaan is the founder of locallist.co.za, founded in 2008, the first local-only internet directory and search engine. In early 2009
he partnered with ISLabs to allow more users to take advantage of their under utilized local bandwidth allocation. Jason is involved currently involved in a num... more
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66Khaya Dlanga
Khaya is an award-winning advertising personality and is currently the Creative Strategic Director at Metropolitan Republic where he works on the FNB and MTN accounts. In 2008, Khaya was awarded the Digital Citizen Award at the Highway Africa Conference, the largest gathering of African Journalists ... more
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67Rick Bosch
Rick has worked in a variety of fields, from a print and radio journalist to making bubble wrap in the UK for 18 months. However, settled in Cape Town a few years ago, he moved into the online world and as a lover of all things tech and geek related, spent many hours researching all things Android. ... more
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68Llew Claasen
Llew is Vice President: Marketing at Clickatell.com.
Clickatell has been around for more than a decade and is the largest Online SMS mobile messaging gateway covering 869 networks in 223 countries and territories.

Llew is a member of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council Advisory Board for ... more
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69Brett Commaille
Brett is the former CEO of Invenfin Venture Capital, an early or seed stage venture capital fund, owned by Remgro Ltd, and focused on differentiated intellectual property with global potential. Brett now runs MyTrueSpark -- a consultancy. As a CA, Brett has worked in audit, merchant banking and cons... more
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70Daniel Romero
Daniel M. Romero is a Ph.D candidate at Cornell University in the Center for Applied Mathematics. His main research interest is the theoretical and empirical study of information and social networks. He has conducted research related to the formation of Twitter's follower network, the identification... more
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71Peter Verweij
After 30 years of lecturing and training at the School of Journalism at Utrecht in journalism, politics and new media, Peter Verweij, started in 2005 his own company D3-Media, which focuses on the following areas: Production of journalistic content for multimedia media and blogs; Research in the ar... more
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72Richard Mullins
Richard Mullins opened Acceleration's Johannesburg office in 2000. Richard has played an instrumental role in the growth of Acceleration in South Africa, working with clients to identify their online marketing needs and establish effective online marketing strategies that deliver superior results. ... more
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73Andy Hadfield
Andy Hadfield is a digital native... and has big dreams for the Internet.

He has played in every corner of the digital industry, launching his first startup at age 19, while still at the University of Cape Town. getALife (gAL) was essentially a social network before the word was even invented (th... more
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74Justin Spratt
Justin is an Australian, living in South Africa for the last five years. Speaker and writer on issues where technology and economics intersect. General Manager of VoIP Mobile & Wi-Fi HotSpot businesses at Internet Solutions. Co-founder ISLabs. Co-founder of GeekRetreat. Sit on steering committee... more
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75Sandra Pitcher
Sandra is a techno-geek who is generally excited by anything with buttons, touch screens or flashing lights. Currently, she is a contract lecturer at both the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg) and Varsity College, specialising in social media, journalism and ethics, while simultaneousl... more
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76Laurice Taitz
Mediatrix. Digital strategist. Joburg blogger at nothing to do in joburg besides… Journalist. Critic. Talking media, old and new. Laurice Taitz is an independent consultant who works on digital media projects. Formerly the managing editor of TimesLive and before that editor of the award-winning ... more
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77Andrew Rens
Andrew Rens is originally from the rough mining town of Johannesburg. More recently he has lived in the start up friendly cities of San Francisco and Cape Town. A proponent and practitioner of open lawyering; open licenses, open standards and open networks, he is... more
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78Talita Calitz
Talita was born and raised in Pretoria. She completed her BA Journalism degree at the University of Pretoria. Her main subjects were Journalism, Visual Studies and Communication. She is planning to further my studies in Marketing and Visual Culture. She has travelled to and lived in Tokyo, Mainland ... more
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79Philip van Zyl
Philip van Zyl is an entrepreneur, founder of People Surveys and Get Social Media , and a search marketing and social media enthusiast. Prior to starting online in 2001 he founded an NGO called Usiko, working with young men in ganglands in and near Cape Town. When not doing online marketing strategy... more
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80Jennifer Kling
Jenny Kling, together with business partner Keri Tomblin, is a co-owner of the new boutique social media agency in Cape Town called Chilli Marketing.

With extensive brand management backgrounds and certificates in eMarketing, Chilli Marketing dedicates its time and expertise to helping business... more
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81Riccardo Spagni
I want you to close your eyes for a moment and picture a scene with me. Imagine a ninja. Now imagine he has incredibly hairy arms and legs. Now imagine he has a penchant for medium bodied red blends. Now imagine he has six dogs. Now imagine he married a German in order to learn obedience. That, in a... more
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82Brendan Jack
Brendan writes, produces, directs and sometimes performs in his online branded entertainment campaigns. “Even if you wanted to ramp a truck off Table Mountain to sell something, we don’t need a permit.”He also works in the film and television industry, and as a voice-over artist.... more
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83Chris Rawlinson
Chris Rawlisnon is Ogilvy South Africa's digital creatagist group marketing chap. He helped to start the South African Geek Dinners, 27 Dinners, helps run the SA Blog Awards, and in his spare time loves to fly aeroplanes, have mini adventures, meet people, and sip G&T's.... more
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84Shana Kay
Shana Kay has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Information Systems and has a passion for all things technology-enabled.
She has been in the ICT industry for 15 years and has co-founded two businesses and solo-founded the third. She is fuelled by creating
businesses and loves to share her ... more
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85Donald Gips
Before being asked to be President Obama’s personal representative to South Africa, Ambassador Donald Gips served as Assistant to the President. He was a leader on the Presidential Transition Team and then served in the White House, where he ran the office of Presidential Personnel, overseeing the... more
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86Paul Armstrong
Paul Armstrong is Head of Social for Mindshare. Recently returning from a seven year stint in Los Angeles where he worked in-house at MySpace (Corporate Communications) he has created digital strategies and activations for Activision, Sony, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks and Yahoo! In his spare time... more
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87Guy Berger
Prof Guy Berger is head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. There he has overseen the development of the Africa Media Matrix building, as well as projects like the New Media Lab, Highway Africa conference and the Sol Plaatje Media Leadersh... more
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88Nonny de la Pena
Nonny de la Peña is a Senior Research Fellow in Immersive Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. She is also co-founder of Stroome.com, an online community that allows collaborative remixing of visual journalism from anywhere on the globe. A graduate of Harvard U... more
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89Angus Robinson
Angus Robinson started Brandsh Media, a mobile and social media agency, in 2006 with clients including Standard Bank, Liberty Life, Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), MNET, LoveLife and SEACOM in its portfolio. Following the merge of Brandsh with Cambient and Stonewall in 2010 to create Native, the ... more
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90Chris Wilson
Chris holds a diploma in marketing and banking law and a business certificate in international management. He is very much a people person – especially when it comes to his team, motivating them, and using his gut feel for their strengths and weaknesses to focus them on how they can best build and... more
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91Frederic Lardinois
Frederic Lardinois is the man behind Silicon Filter, a site that focuses on consumer technology related to the internet. Lardinois writes about Web apps, mobile apps and devices, as well as Web-connected TVs, cars and similar technologies.

Prior to founding Silicon Filter, Lardinois worked for th... more
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92Pieter Streicher
Dr Pieter Streicher graduated from WITS with a BSc-Eng(Civil) in 1991 and he received his PhD from UCT in 1996. After working as a civil engineer at HHO Africa, Dr Streicher, along with Richard Simpson, (BSc-Eng(Civil), MBA), established Celerity Systems in mid-2000 as an IT services company focusin... more
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93Jared Molko
Jared is an Account Strategist at Google SA.

Before joining Google, Jared was involved in a startup company called CrowdTech. There he was the marketing manager for an online t-shirt design company called Springleap, which is based around the crowdsourcing model. Whilst at Springleap, the compan... more
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94Jonty Fisher
Jonty Fisher is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, husband, father, trail runner, political blogger, a proud South African and an appreciator of all things clever, creative, beautiful, wise, funny and courageous. While completing a Bachelor of Business Science with Marketing Honours at the Univer... more
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95Phil Barrett
Phil Barrett is a director of Flow Interactive in the UK and South Africa. He's a user experience designer, which means he helps businesses make more money by making their customers happier. As the complexity of the world around us increases, good user experience design brings back simplicity, huma... more
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96Colin Daniels
Colin is currently Head of Digital at the Trader Media Group (South Africa), part of Europe’s largest specialist multimedia publishing group jointly-owned by the Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners. He is responsible for managing a commercial department, which includes both sales and technical ... more
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97Mani Pande
Mani works as a global development researcher at Wikipedia. In this role, Mani is working to design and lead research work that helps Wikipedia make good strategic decisions and evaluate the results of the work that Wikipedia does (to make even better decisions). In addition, Mani is helping to de... more
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98Thabo Ntai
Born in 1987 in Lesotho, Thabo now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He got involved in the web industry two months after matriculating in 2004. He started off working for a local Internet Service Provider called Datacom in a two-man web division. He started off creating massive custom social sit... more
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99Rian Van Der Merwe
Rian van der Merwe grew up in Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he studied engineering before moving to Perth, Australia to complete a Ph.D in Internet Marketing. From there he moved to California to pursue a girl (yep, they eventually got married).

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100Stefano Sessa
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