[Cannes Lions judges] Cannes through the eyes of a Media Lions judge

[Cannes Lions Judges Blog] Chris Botha: My Cannes experience so far can be broken up into two categories – life and work. Life being these beautiful experiences that we are lucky enough to experience, and work being, well, the work. The real reason we’re actually here.

[22 Jun 2011 13:53]

[Cannes Lions judges] Getting excited

[Cannes Lions Judges Blog] Here are some video blogs (vlogs) from four of the South African creatives judging Cannes Lions this year, ahead of their trip to Cannes, Frances, for the 58th Annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Comments [1] [22 Jun 2011 13:39]

Two hundred, young, bright minds in one place

[Abey Mokgwatsane] I was at the Mail & Guardian Top 200 South Africans launch last week. I was there because I was fortunate enough to make the list in this year’s business category. This, however, is not about me; it’s about the incredible people I met that day. I mean, what else could I ask for? Two hundred, young, bright minds in one place.

Comments [11] [15 Jun 2011 12:52]

The f-word in marketing

[Terry Levin] Thanks to the Habari Media Facebook Connects event held in Cape Town [on U2 Friday, 18 February 2011], those who attended should now theoretically know everything there is to know about writing a Facebook strategy!

Comments [1] [21 Feb 2011 11:53]

[Adforum Worldwide Summit] Value and costs

[Darren Woolley] Day five of the Adforum CEO Summit in NYC started taking about value and ended talking about costs. It demonstrates the huge gap that still exists between procurement, marketers and agencies, if not on an intellectual level, certainly an emotional one.

Comments [1] [08 Oct 2010 08:58]

Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

[Terry Levin] If we were to attempt to define Brand South Africa as a personality (and heaven knows it could do with some) we might summon up descriptors like: entrepreneurial, charming, exciting, friendly, sociable, creative, style leaders - things like that...Unpacking ZA’s presence at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

Comments [1] [14 Sep 2010 11:26]

[Discovery Invest Leadership Summit] Knowledge on a silver platter

[Dale Imerman: @idale] Want to learn the secrets influential leaders are sharing about challenges facing the world economy, business, government and society? In a series of blog posts, I’ll serve you all the knowledge I got from the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit - on a silver platter.

Comments [1] [16 Aug 2010 14:00]

[Discovery Invest Leadership Summit] Kick-off at press conference

[Dale Imerman: @idale] Some of the world’s leading business thinkers will bring South Africans their secrets and insights at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit on Wednesday, 11 August 2010, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. I’ll be there, too, thanks to Bizcommunity.com.

Comments [1] [10 Aug 2010 19:10]

Bottling the gees

[Marion Scher] Who would have believed that the main subject of conversation between middle-class white women over coffee mornings and dinner parties would be soccer? Who would have seen themselves grinning wildly and have an overwhelming urge to embrace total strangers spending their euros and dollars at our shopping malls? For the last month, the new national pastime became ‘go to malls, fan parks and stadiums to watch the tourists’...

Comments [2] [14 Jul 2010 12:38]

Prospecting new business in 2010

[Franklin Ozekhome] These are the key takeouts from the Mirren New Business Conference, held at the Digital Sandbox, New York, in April 2010.

[20 May 2010 13:35]