…happened to me lately. (Aside from having a baby.) Here they are: 1. I’ve been asked (and have accepted and am excited about) being one of the judges of the Intel Visibly_Smart competition, where, to quote the website, technology and beauty are integrated and ‘techno-beauties’ are invited to express themselves by uploading their ‘art’ – [...]
There’ve been two biggies lately: the Social Media and PR Summit in October 2010 and the Heavy Chefs Johannesburg session in November 2010. My content for both was pretty similar: ‘How to write for engagement with social media audiences’. In short, I looked at keeping messages short and tight, producing content of real measurable value, [...]
So I spent this morning at the Social Media & PR Summit hosted by AMC Conferences at the Southern Sun OR Tambo, and spoke about writing for social media. More specifically, I covered keeping it short and tight, adding value, getting the tone right and handling the critical checking afterwards. I’m planning to write my [...]
So, this is a bit belated, but there you go. (The World Cup got in the way. Blame Fifa.) I’m chuffed not only to be a Gauteng representative on the Executive Committee of the Southern African Freelancers’ Association (Safrea), but also to be heading up the organisation’s Training and Mentoring portfolio (such as it currently [...]
As a former lecturer at Boston Business College Randburg (1999), on the topics of business English, journalism, PR and customer service, I was super-chuffed today when the HOD of Media Skills at Boston Media House requested permission to use my Bizcommunity articles as teaching resources. She says they’re ‘clever, funny and so very helpful’ (my [...]
