Archive for the 'Media' Category

CLEVELAND, OHIO: Even though I’m on the other side of the world at present at the headquarters of the Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI) in the States, I couldn’t help but follow my team’s Loerie coverage on the ground in Margate over this weekend and the usual associated industry shenanigans and excitement of [...]

One of the most interesting and enjoyable media roundtables I attended recently was one organised by Shelagh Gastrow of Inyathelo to workshop the issue of defining philanthropy - and its crucial role in the maintenance of civil society - with key media and academics. The crux is to try instill a culture of philanthropy in [...]

Having set benchmarks in online publishing and web development and innovation in South Africa in the last few years, making the local blogosphere and social networking in South Africa a very exciting place to be, sources confirm that GM Matthew Buckland and strategist Vincent Maher are both leaving the Mail & Guardian Online, the former [...]

The new public Mail & Guardian Online test site has just gone live! And only 26 minutes after deadline, according to strategist Vincent Maher on twitter. Bizcommunity.com got the scoop this morning on some of the new features: Exclusive sneak preview of M&G Online
Well done, team M&G! We know what a mammoth job it is!
PS [...]

Lately, several sports-related press releases have passed through my inbox, from Sportingweb’s new Business of Sport to the announcement of free digital soccer magazine, Digidiski (4.2MB pdf), the brainchild of Sizwe Jacques Mbebe and his Holland-based partner Martijn Jelissen and which will be the flagship product of the soon-to-be launched TheSoccerPages.Com.
And then there’s Sports Leader, [...]

Apart from all the complaints on copy pitches not relevant to their media and the invisible government communicators in South Africa, David Wickenden, senior VP of Fleishman-Hillard, gave some interesting insight on how the media world has changed, meaning that the jobs of communicators have to change.
His key insights (more in depth on Bizcommunity later) [...]

It may have taken a week, but finally the stunned silence it seems most of our leaders descended into has been broken. ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe gave a strong message to foreign and local journalists and communicators this morning, Thursday, 22 May 2008, at the International Media Forum in Johannesburg, not just condemning the [...]