Tweens using MXit – whose responsibility?

MXit was again judged the coolest website and social networking service facility in this year’s Sunday Times Generation NeXt survey, conducted by HDI Youth Marketeers in partnership with the Sunday Times, and supported by Monash South Africa. In topping the ‘Coolest Social Networking Service and Website’ category, MXit leapfrogged over Facebook and Google in terms of popularity.
There have [...]

Generations’ criticism moves into the social media space

The Times reports that Durban pastor and prominent ANC member, Vusi Dube, slammed South Africa’s leading soapie,Generations, on Facebook earlier this week, calling the show a ‘disgrace’ to black people and accused the SABC of subjecting its viewers to ‘junk’.
Generations’ Artistic Director, Mark Graham, responded to the criticism by stating that the purpose of drama is [...]

Oh, the online search blunders we make!

Inspired by the fact that South Africa is a new swine flu hot spot, I decided to look up the ‘hot topic’ out of personal interest, and stumbled across an interesting post on the Pop Hangover site.
Titled ‘Swan Flu? Susan Boil? Farrah Faucet?’, it is a shortened version of a Yahoo! Buzz list of the [...]

The Grid: keeping South Africans connected

In a social-media saturated world, there always seems to be room for one more social network with an innovative approach to keeping its users connected. The Grid is a South African mobile social network that allows users to chat to their friends, keep track of their locations, and share things they like, from a cell [...]

The strange things you’ll find on the SA web…

I read a most interesting article in the Sunday Times Lifestyle section this past Sunday by Ziphezinhle Msimango, titled ‘Surf and strange Turf’. According to Msimango, “boer fanaticism, black pornography and infidelity are just some of the iniquities that make the South African internet a popular place to be.”
While Google estimates that five million South [...]

The US government sets a great online example

Search Marketing Gurus last week blogged that President Obama (in his 50 days in office) has been changing the way that the executive branch of the government does business online.
SMG goes on to list how America’s ‘first Social Media president’ got his team to revitalise the official US government website, whitehouse.gov, which is regularly updated. [...]

Have your say with Youngblood5

5FM recently relaunched Youngblood5. This is a revolutionary, interactive cyberspace portal, intent on mobilising the country’s youth as a positive force for change.
Developed for 5FM listeners to document any causes, concerns or interests they are passionate about, Youngblood5 also enables them to connect with like-minded individuals, and expose their views to the broader South African [...]

The Movement for Good – it starts with you

The Movement for Good is a network of organisations that have come together to inspire and mobilise South Africans to become active citizens for good, with a vision to build a country that lives its constitutional values, is safe, and offers the opportunity for all to build hope in our future. This is an ideal [...]