Archive for the 'Digital Citizen Indaba' Category

The third annual Digital Citizen Indaba kicks off tomorrow night, Saturday, 6 September 2007, with drinks at the Rat & Parrot Videos in the Rhodes University town of Grahamstown (my alma mater). Bizcommunity.com will be there, represented by myself once again (and straight after DCI comes the 12th annual three-day Highway Africa, which Biz senior [...]

“Journalists will disappear if they don’t make the transition to the digital world.” That was a scary comment by 24.com’s Arie Rossouw at Highway Africa last week. By implication this means communicators and any brands not making use of new media tools – because many of your consumers are, particularly your current/future consumers, the youth. [...]

Those bunking the Digital Citizen Indaba which started Saturday in Grahamstown were to be found watching the rugby Sunday at the Bat and Carrot… er… Cat and Garrot… er Rat and some bird. Anyway the hot balmy day, coral trees in flower and winning rugby on the big screen contributed to the holiday feeling for [...]

For an event which focused largely on blogging, a search using various blog aggregators and Google hasn’t turned up all that much yet from bloggers on yesterday’s Digital Citizen Indaba session. Perhaps too much Rat & Parroting?
Anyway, here’s selection of what there is out there so far (and don’t forget to view all [...]

Money and marketing
The Money and Marketing panel discussion consisted of three very different speakers and approaches to monetising social media: South African Ramon Thomas of Netucation, South African Laurian Clemence who blogs as Peas on Toast, and South African Matthew Buckland, GM of the Mail & Guardian Online.
Unfortunately, there are no videos of the parallel [...]

Panel discussion – challenges of content in SA.
These panelists had been asked to talk about the challenges of content and innovation. The answers paint an interesting picture of how various South African mainstream media online divisions have been tackling the issues of multimedia and convergence with respect to their own unique operations and resources (or [...]

Khaya Dlanga on vlogging
Khaya is a South African strategic creative planner whose YouTube channel is on the top 20 most-subscribed comedian channels in the world. He has more than 7000 subscribers and his videos have been viewed more than 1.8 million times.

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