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| 1 |  | Michelle 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 Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.'s posts have been read 1731208 times |
| 2 |  | Mvelase 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 Mvelase Peppetta's posts have been read 1708966 times |
| 3 |  | Nur 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 Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter's posts have been read 1138167 times |
| 4 |  | Stuart 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, only ... more Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter's posts have been read 970382 times |
| 5 |  | Martin Carstens: Staff reporter Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, Discovery Invest and currently, Memeburn.... more Martin Carstens: Staff reporter's posts have been read 884350 times |
| 6 |  | Rowan 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 Rowan Puttergill: Columnist's posts have been read 820986 times |
| 7 |  | Steven 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 Steven Norris: Staff reporter's posts have been read 757394 times |
| 8 |  | Graeme 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 Graeme Lipschitz: Columnist's posts have been read 595158 times |
| 9 |  | Tom 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 Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley's posts have been read 552640 times |
| 10 |  | Joseph 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 Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist's posts have been read 414629 times |
| 11 |  | Matthew 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 Matthew Buckland: Publisher's posts have been read 403324 times |
| 12 |  | Hilton 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 Hilton Tarrant: Columnist's posts have been read 353360 times |
| 13 |  | Catherine 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 Catherine Murray: Columnist's posts have been read 333243 times |
| 14 |  | Keet Van Zyl Keet is a dynamic investment expert with extensive growth equity experience. He worked at industry-leading companies such as Procter & Gamble, Investec Bank and HBD Venture Capital. He co-founded KnifeCap to continue building the high-growth investment space in South Africa as well as AngelHub ... more Keet Van Zyl's posts have been read 313450 times |
| 15 |  | Matthew 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 Matthew Stone: Columnist's posts have been read 250720 times |
| 16 |  | Jonathan Houston Jonathan Houston is passionate about digital marketing and digital strategy. During the day, Jonathan fulfills the role of Lead Digital Marketer for Deloitte Consulting’s Technology division where his primary focus is to ensure the continued development of the division’s online profile. Jonathan... more Jonathan Houston's posts have been read 226632 times |
| 17 |  | Erik 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 Erik Hersman: In Kenya's posts have been read 226420 times |
| 18 |  | Sarah Britten Sarah Britten is the strategic planning director at Y&R Johannesburg. Her relationship status is hidden.... more Sarah Britten's posts have been read 170410 times |
| 19 |  | Christopher 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 Christopher Lazley's posts have been read 163160 times |
| 20 |  | Amanda 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 Amanda Sevasti: Columnist's posts have been read 160262 times |
| 21 |  | Wikus 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 Wikus Engelbrecht's posts have been read 153692 times |
| 22 |  | Walter 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 Walter Pike's posts have been read 148836 times |
| 23 |  | Matt 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 Matt Cohen's posts have been read 141160 times |
| 24 |  | Sheena 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 Sheena Gates's posts have been read 135050 times |
| 25 |  | Andrew 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 Andrew Craucamp's posts have been read 132564 times |
| 26 |  | Ryan 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 Ryan Gordon's posts have been read 129030 times |
| 27 |  | Georgia Christian Georgia Christian is a digital marketing specialist at web development, design and digital marketing company Lima Bean. You can follow them on Twitter @limabeansa.... more Georgia Christian's posts have been read 127080 times |
| 28 |  | Catherine 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 Catherine Parker's posts have been read 124418 times |
| 29 |  | Yoav 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 Yoav Tchelet's posts have been read 116453 times |
| 30 |  | Roger Hislop 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 Roger Hislop's posts have been read 98430 times |
| 31 |  | Thomas 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 Thomas Crampton: In China's posts have been read 91271 times |
| 32 |  | Melissa 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 Melissa Chetty's posts have been read 90930 times |
| 33 |  | Marc 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 Marc Forrest's posts have been read 86870 times |
| 34 |  | Niel Bekker: In New York Niel studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is the social products editor at The Huffington Post in New York. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour.... more Niel Bekker: In New York's posts have been read 79007 times |
| 35 |  | Kimberley 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 Kimberley Myers's posts have been read 78414 times |
| 36 |  | Dan 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 Dan Zarrella's posts have been read 76940 times |
| 37 |  | Tony 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 Tony Seifart's posts have been read 76560 times |
| 38 |  | Herman 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 Herman Manson (@marklives)'s posts have been read 70310 times |
| 39 |  | Craig 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 Craig Bruton's posts have been read 68600 times |
| 40 |  | Matthew 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 Matthew Ncube's posts have been read 67780 times |
| 41 |  | Craig 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 Craig Raw's posts have been read 67424 times |
| 42 |  | Leonard 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 Leonard Ah Kun's posts have been read 67252 times |
| 43 |  | Steven 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 Steven Ambrose's posts have been read 65600 times |
| 44 |  | Karen 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 Karen Jeynes's posts have been read 65400 times |
| 45 |  | Kevin 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 Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent's posts have been read 60221 times |
| 46 |  | Shawn Graaff From the depths of classics libraries and American academia - Shawn Graaff is a South African based Digital Strategist that works in Digital Management, Information Architecture, Social Media and Search Marketing with a special interest in Mobile for Africa and a self-admitted details fanatic. At Mi... more Shawn Graaff's posts have been read 60180 times |
| 47 |  | Megan Bernstein Megan has a love and passion for great brands and extraordinary advertising. She is a true Generation Y baby. Immersed in all forms of new age marketing finding it an invaluable tool. Social media strategist for DigitLab by day, blogger for under5foot and Meme... more Megan Bernstein's posts have been read 59040 times |
| 48 |  | Basheera 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 Basheera Khan's posts have been read 58350 times |
| 49 |  | Mark 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 Mark Kaigwa's posts have been read 58340 times |
| 50 |  | Nadia 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 Nadia Neophytou: In New York's posts have been read 57021 times |
| 51 |  | Jarred 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 Jarred Cinman's posts have been read 56951 times |
| 52 |  | Alexandra 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 Alexandra Fraser's posts have been read 54430 times |
| 53 |  | Jess 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 Jess Green's posts have been read 51270 times |
| 54 |  | Sam 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 Sam Beckbessinger's posts have been read 51140 times |
| 55 |  | Graham 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 Graham Shillington's posts have been read 50582 times |
| 56 |  | Debré 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 47890 times |
| 57 |  | Kyle 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 Kyle Redelinghuys's posts have been read 43650 times |
| 58 |  | Loy 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 Loy Okezie's posts have been read 43310 times |
| 59 |  | Vincent 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 Vincent Maher's posts have been read 41550 times |
| 60 |  | Sarah 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 Sarah Duff's posts have been read 37410 times |
| 61 |  | Chuma 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 Chuma Kave's posts have been read 36680 times |
| 62 |  | Sifiso 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 Sifiso Mazibuko's posts have been read 36060 times |
| 63 |  | K.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 K.F Lai's posts have been read 29880 times |
| 64 |  | Mike 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 Mike Sharman's posts have been read 29330 times |
| 65 |  | Jason 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 Jason Adriaan's posts have been read 29200 times |
| 66 |  | Khaya 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 Khaya Dlanga's posts have been read 28690 times |
| 67 |  | Rick 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 Rick Bosch's posts have been read 27330 times |
| 68 |  | Llew 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 Llew Claasen's posts have been read 27320 times |
| 69 |  | Brett 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 Brett Commaille's posts have been read 27270 times |
| 70 |  | Daniel 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 Daniel Romero's posts have been read 26920 times |
| 71 |  | Peter 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 Peter Verweij's posts have been read 26060 times |
| 72 |  | Richard 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 Richard Mullins's posts have been read 24986 times |
| 73 |  | Andy 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 Andy Hadfield's posts have been read 24580 times |
| 74 |  | Justin 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 Justin Spratt's posts have been read 24070 times |
| 75 |  | Sandra 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 Sandra Pitcher's posts have been read 23960 times |
| 76 |  | Laurice 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 Laurice Taitz's posts have been read 22610 times |
| 77 |  | Andrew 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 Andrew Rens's posts have been read 21460 times |
| 78 |  | Talita 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 Talita Calitz's posts have been read 19430 times |
| 79 |  | Philip 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 Philip van Zyl's posts have been read 19170 times |
| 80 |  | Jennifer 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 Jennifer Kling's posts have been read 19030 times |
| 81 |  | Riccardo 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 Riccardo Spagni's posts have been read 18750 times |
| 82 |  | Brendan 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 Brendan Jack's posts have been read 17240 times |
| 83 |  | Chris 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 Chris Rawlinson's posts have been read 17150 times |
| 84 |  | Shana 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 Shana Kay's posts have been read 17080 times |
| 85 |  | Donald 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 Donald Gips's posts have been read 17050 times |
| 86 |  | Paul 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 Paul Armstrong's posts have been read 16741 times |
| 87 |  | Guy 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 Guy Berger's posts have been read 16600 times |
| 88 |  | Nonny 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 Nonny de la Pena's posts have been read 16130 times |
| 89 |  | Frederic 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 Frederic Lardinois's posts have been read 16090 times |
| 90 |  | Angus 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 Angus Robinson's posts have been read 15897 times |
| 91 |  | Chris 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 Chris Wilson's posts have been read 15890 times |
| 92 |  | Pieter 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 Pieter Streicher's posts have been read 15250 times |
| 93 |  | Jared 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 Jared Molko's posts have been read 15090 times |
| 94 |  | Jonty 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 Jonty Fisher's posts have been read 13860 times |
| 95 |  | Phil 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 Phil Barrett's posts have been read 12760 times |
| 96 |  | Colin 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 Colin Daniels's posts have been read 12690 times |
| 97 |  | Mani 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 Mani Pande's posts have been read 12290 times |
| 98 |  | Thabo 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 Thabo Ntai's posts have been read 12210 times |
| 99 |  | Rian 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). Rian spent the next 6 years working in Silicon ... more Rian Van Der Merwe's posts have been read 11872 times |
| 100 |  | Stefano Sessa Stefano is a co-founder at Panacea Mobile, a mobile specialist company providing services that range from bulk SMS to mobile strategy and development.... more Stefano Sessa's posts have been read 11840 times |
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