Charl Norman is the Operations Manager for Blueworld Communities, South Africa’s leading Internet Technology Company focused on building online communities. At only 24 years old he has been instrumental in creating four niche social networks and owns a blogging network including some of South Africa’s top ranking blog titles. This year he has been nominated as a finalist for the ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa award.
Melissa Attree started a PR company after a successful career in marketing. She conceptualised the first online campaign for Big Blue via blog advertisings, utilising social media and WebPR. Melissa developed the first Social Media Press Release on behalf of Brandsh for the Standbank Pro20 Cricket Series. She spoke about social media and branding.
Tim Shier calls himself the head pirate at Quirk, Africa’s largest full service online marketing agency. As the Marketing Manager, Tim is involved with a number of cutting edge projects including the launch of the free online eMarketing text book eMarketing – the essential guide to online marketing. He is also the Marketing and Business Development manager for BrandsEye, Quirk’s online reputation management solution. Tim spoke about online reputation management and eMarketing.
Vincent Maher, Portfolio Manager for Social Media at Vodacom, and pervious strategist at the Mail & Guardian online, explained the concept and impact of citizen journalism. Co-founder of South African aggregator and analysis, amatomu.com, Maher won a Highway African New Media Innovation Award, 2007.
Jayne Morgan has been a producer of BBC Radio 4 (in the UK), SAfm and Talk 702 IN South Africa. She was the Head of Radio Training at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism.
She launched PODCART in 2007 in order to create premium downloadable audio for South African brands. She explained podcasting and new broadcasting trends.
Peter Greenwall, composer, songwriter and author, inspired the audience with presentation (and fantastic songs)on the topic of his book, Logical Stupidity - Innovation by navigating through nonsense. The book takes the showbiz formula of turning problems into songs and humour in a way that deals with psychology, theory and practice of innovation.
It was a great conference - thanks!
ReplyDeleteMan oh man that's a bad photo - I think I was attempting to artfully dodge a tricky question. Quick note - check some of your hyperlinks have double http://
:) thanks
Thanks so much, I edited the links - oops! Sorry about the photo, we really needed to organise one of the speakers...not speaking - all the weird open mouths in the pictures are quite funny (me included). I looked for the best of the lot.
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