Alrighty, for those of you who have an opinion on the world markets. Come test your contextual knowledge on globalization (yes, economics can be sexy AND remarkably useful to understand in a wobbling world).
They’re questions slung together for the 1st year class, so it’s no in-depth analysis, but good grounding basics & worth a refresher
They’re mostly true/false or 1 word answers (I’ll pop the answers up at the end of the week when the students have handed theirs in)
Give it a go
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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 in such limitations, and comes armed only with wings, a wand and fairy dust.
This is my first SA Rocks post in a verrrry long time. Dedicated to the kind of genius that we would do …

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 may require some endurance on your part, it’s not a quickie, but if you’re following the Endurance month theme with me, it may be worth it.

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 general prosperity.
Whether merely due to placebo effect or common consciousness; for a culture steeped in (what we deem to be) superstition, the sheer volume of subconscious belief is predicted to have groundswell effect …

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. Everyone is a rockstar.
All content created must be released under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
All attendees must be allowed to participate. (subject to limitations of physical space, of course)
All sessions and events must be free of …

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[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 for the second run of its powerful and popular new 3-day program, “Nomadic Marketing” (31 October – 2 November).
MacLeod was honoured as one of the world’s 50 top marketers by AdAge last year. What makes this man …

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 …

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
[In case you got left out of the PR 7.7.07 Live Earth Concerts (em, make that Al Gore) has attracted some of the planet’s hottest musicians to rock the world to start turning the tide against global warming. …

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 forgive the mangle & ugliness here for now – under re.construction & re.creation.
good gracious I am an ass! Linkloving in the blogroll needs unscrambling & reclassifying.. who knows what the hellacious is happening with the sidebars.. …