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Podcamp: African style

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on October 23, 2007

in education2.0, learning events, networthing and social.media

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Podcamp Cape Town techmonkeys
Africa’s first podcamp ROCKED. We had to take the tech to the trees at one point to avoid a roaming pride of lions. But it was all good :-P

It was the stuff of a classic unconference: friendships forged, fresh project collaborations begun, and stimulating pioneering ideas shared in the South African sunshine just before our victorious rugby World Cup win.
We even recorded a podcast: (in Afrikaans - for the popular WOEMF network - why Nico & Glen graciously allowed me to mangle the language I’m not sure, but it was fun) embarrassing video thanks to Zoopy (who did a great job of coverage not just sponsorship).

The podcasting conversation has officially begun in Cape Town, and we hope to be hearing from podcampers rocking the AV option now. I’ll be talking about Doug Kaye’s inspiring concept : Podcorps and other channels for local podcasters interested in social entrepreneurial / pioneering communities around the world.

Thanks again to our generous sponsors (Henk Kleynhans of Skyrove who provided wifi is the 2nd techmonkey in the tree - along with our WebAddiCT mashup meister who still owes me a muti Tshirt), to our valuable contributing speakers (esp. Brad Shrimpton of Apple for doing the podcasting walk.through & demos - see podcasting really is THAT easy!) and mostly to the podcampers who gave up a perfect beach day to come to Podcamp Cape Town!

(extra big warm African hug to the co-daddy of Podcamp Chris Brogan for his message to us - and paying attention to the sadness we feel for the loss of iconic South African Lucky Dube) Please watch the vid if you get a sec: it’s really quick, but a powerful reminder about the power of the social media tools, that we learn to use and share, can have real impact on the world.

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Good luck with Podcamp Boston 2 from yr extended & growing global family of Podcampers >>

The UCT Business School pioneers a course on Web2.0 for practical business application

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Maximillian Kaizen

on July 17, 2007

in GSB, corporate education, education2.0, executive education and innovation

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The first morning of Nomadic Marketing has begun.. an unusually structured collaborative learning experience into the heart of the “new internet”. For practical business use. Particularly for marketing. The kernel of this course is how to harness the best ideas at the outer edge of social media for potent strategic advantage in a phenomenally fast and unpredictable moving market. This is going to be an exciting journey.

Thank you to Elaine Rumboll, Director of Executive Education at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town for initiating this course; and to Dave Duarte (Course Director) who started making the most of many minds and quickly invited some of South Africa’s finest thinkers in this space to co-create this powerful course¹

Today’s line-up includes: Mike Stopforth - Web 2.0 Beyond the Hype; Mike Perk - Search Engine Marketing Basics; Graham Knox - Blog Marketing; Jon Foster-Pedley - Strategy and Innovation since Web 2.0.

The Marketing Geek has done a superb job of collating a wealth of information for course delegates on the course wiki and blog, herded a wild bunch of those of us who made up the faculty and with the superb GSB team created something fairly innovative for any business school anywhere on the planet right now. I’m looking forward to seeing if we can effectively translate the reality that we digital nomads live, work and play in, to South African business leaders attending this course.

I was privileged to contribute to the course in helping to design the educational experience with Dave. Making it engaging interactive and ensure that what could ordinarily be a daunting subject is rendered human-scale and brain-friendly. Lucky me! [↩]

Linkbaiting 101 for politicians

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Maximillian Kaizen

on May 21, 2007

in Economic Factors, corporate education, education2.0, executive education and social.media

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Has Patricia de Lille been to dinner with David Bullard lately?!..perhaps they share the same online reputation management consultant or social media PR specialist?

Thanks 2 Martin for the heads.up this morning. We all had a good laugh and my optimism in the sporadic sophistication of South African politics leads me to believe that this is just effective online marketing at work. Hope Dave doesn’t have National Intelligence on his ass by giving political opinion though if this IS serious. Either way, Paul needs help us get clear on our rights, quickly. I’ve been saying we need to get involved in policy-making if we are to guarantee our rights, or what freedom we enjoy may be a window.

If this isn’t a blogging blast-in, then it’s another tragic display of fear.based rallying. I think we may have a fresh entrant in the social media playground.. especially leading up to elections. Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama of course, and the newmedia star John Edwards make extensive use of social media tools like blogs, twitter, youtube or myspace to connect with constituents, even rustling up raving fans to crowdsource events on a 100th of the traditional cost of campaigning.. who would NOT want to leverage this advantage?

Somehow, I just don’t see a case of digital denial* here (honestly how long did you think it would take our sharpest politico’s to catch-up when the results are so potent for their PR?)

PS. *if this is the case I’m available for the guided tour if you need to map the territory quickly
PPS. Mxit may be one of the greatest tools for us to leapfrog the crisis in education, using lightweight technology to support collaborative future learning environments. Like any powertool.. the capacity to build or destroy is in the hands of those using it. [Again, on matters of emerging technology as an accelerated means to use your powers for good.. I'm available to any political leader brave enough to include tech into their strategic vision, ..rather than a reactive rallying point for those fearful of the future].