Quick question for all you talented marketers: How would you get media attention and prime.time billing over the throngs of outrageously attired politicians and their associated soap.opera-like antics at the Opening of Parliament, at one of the most critical periods in South African history? Seems impossible? Not if you’re the Fairy Godmother who doesn’t believe...

Okay so it has only been a few days, but the endurance thing appears to be infusing into the psyche. I’ve been writing all over the place, next stop SA Rocks (if Nic Haralambous will have me back!) & hopefully I can hold steady this time. << this post on Thought Leader is one that...

Within the Chinese lunar calendar, a brand new 12 year cycle has begun today, with the celebration of New Year (7th Feb 2008). Expect to see a renewed surge of trades and strong moves from China this year. The Year of the Rat is considered very auspicious for wealth, shrewd business dealings, love, family and...

Brainchild of formidable online community developer Chris Brogan and fellow Chris, Chris Penn of Financial Aid Podcast – Podcamp has blossomed in all sorts of places around our planet where there are communities flourishing around new media. There are 7 rules that help form the framework of a Podcamp: All attendees must be treated equally....

hint: [from the press release just issued on Nomadic Marketing] Think Facebook and MXit have nothing to do with your business? One of the world’s most innovative marketers coming to SA business school to make sense of social media for enterprise UCT’s Graduate School of Business is proud to welcome Hugh MacLeod to the faculty...

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...

Are you going to be rocking at one of the global Live Earth concerts tomorrow? Lucky beast if you are! For those of us who aren’t going to be there :-( there is still the option of hooking up a live feed1 & throwing a house party to support the chilling-out of our gorgeous Gaia2...

yuck yuck yuck… after the near digital death experience on my site [due to an all too hasty WordPress 2.2 upgrade that conflicted horribly with the underlying K2 theme] I deleted my custom css files that I’d tweaked for maxkaizen.com by mistake – utterly gone! :-/ so now I’m paying for my idiocy So plz...

It’s so wacky how our world has changed! My mom mailed me today to remind me politely that I haven’t blogged here in 10 days :-/ ..kind of like those subtle suggestions that it may be advisable to tidy your room before guests arrive when you’re a kid. Does it mean that our relationships are...

I'm so bleak that I'll be missing Eddie Obeng and Jon Foster-Pedley of Pentacle Business School in tandem session in Jo'burg on the 22nd of June. They're a pair of potent professors, passionate about the practical application of innovation and creative strategy.