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How the media used tech to cover the #CapefireThe fires that devastated large areas of the Cape Peninsula last week were covered extensively. Now, Stuart Thomas reports on the drones, maps and social networks SA's tech-savvy media used to report on the #CapeFire. Moving to fires that rage internally, Tiffany Markman is amazed by the fact that when it comes to business writing unless you are ready for a whole world of drama, you can't really say what you mean or say what you want to say. So she's come up with some sanitised wording that in other words allow you to engage with clients without any drama. Next, Leigh Andrews has a message - from her, TuYu - and it takes just one click to tick, giving you a better way to incentivise staff without the annual 'good work' certificate, impersonal 'thumbs up' icon or 'smiley face' tacked to a message. And to end with more food for thought, Nola Bond has some useful advice on protecting IP in campaign tendering. Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
| | [Stuart Thomas] The fire sweeping across Cape Town's Southern peninsula dominated South African headlines. A number of factors saw the country's media houses bring together a number of technologies and tools in their reporting efforts... read more>>
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Tiffany Markman With business writing, you can't really say what you mean - unless you want a world of drama. Here are some ways to engage with clients and customers without offending them, using 'safe' versions of the rude phrases that tempt you... Read more >> | Leigh Andrews Looking for a better way of incentivising staff than with an annual 'good work' certificate or an impersonal 'thumbs up' icon tacked to a message? Then TuYu is for you, says MD Ruan Geyser, especially if your company's on the digital track... Read more >> | Nola Bond In a free market environment, the tender process is important to ensure fairness and transparency but a practice has developed whereby those tendering are often required to relinquish their ideas, proposals and intellectual property, even if their tender is unsuccessful, and with no compensation... Read more >> |
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 | Issued by Velocity Afrika #DemVABoys and Kabelo 'KB' journeyed into the heart of Maputo, Mozambique, to capture the beauty of the city's people and cultural textures... read more>> | |  |
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 | As fires continued to rage in the southern Cape Peninsula last week, Cape Town companies supported the volunteer firefighter services... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Stick Communications Stick sponsored 11 AAA, first-year Copywriting students to the Design Indaba 2015 Conference Simulcast, one of the world's leading forums of creativity and design... read more>> | |  |
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 | Issued by Bluegrass Digital Bluegrass was tasked with creating an online platform for One School at a Time, a non-profit organisation that aims to improve the level of education in South African schools, backed and owned by Joe Public... read more>> | |  | Issued by Firewater Group The very simplicity of sending an email to a mass audience is what makes it so appealing to marketers (both professional and amateur), but simplicity is also what makes it so important to do it right and so easy to get it wrong... read more>> | |  | Issued by Digital Narrative Digital Narrative brought Augmented Reality and eventing together in a spectacular display at the recent IAB Summit held last month. The concept took the shape of a giant Pinterest-style board... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by The Rand Show Be the first in South Africa to experience the giants of the sea at Rand Show 2015's Pirates Paradise - a giant playland imported from Italy with attractions never before seen in South Africa... read more>> | |  |
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 | Issued by Johannesburg International Motor Show The Johannesburg International Motor Show celebrates its tenth birthday in October 2015 with the staging of the tenth edition of Africa's leading motoring event which is one of the top ten automotive exhibitions globally... read more>> | | |
 | AccuWeather has used localisation to tell people the weather in more than 100 different languages. However, localising mobile applications and web services for different markets isn't easy, as linguistic and technical limitations can impact how people receive the information... read more>> | | |
 | NEWSWATCH: Citing 'growing unhappiness' about the ombudsman, The New Age and ANN7 are to appoint a 'public editor' to handle complaints, reports Mail & Guardian... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Brian Anthony Communications "The print media landscape in South Africa may have seen better days, but it is far from obsolete," writes media consultant Brian Hayward of Brian Anthony Communications... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by East Coast Radio KZN's corporate elite gathered at Durban's ICC on 3 March for one of the most anticipated events on the provincial business calendar... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Why Satisfy Learn how Distell has made use of its social audience, what Brand in Motion does to ensure its clients stay ahead of the competition on social media and how SocialBakers relate this to international trends... read more>> | | |  | Ritesh Sanghani AHMEDABAD, INDIA: The world is moving at dynamic speed, posing numerous opportunities and challenges. Here's how to beat the heat of this competitiveness and gain an edge... read more>> | |  | European digital marketing research firm Best Marketing International monitors almost 300 digital award competitions Worldwide... read more>> | |  | LAS VEGAS, US: NAB Show, held from 5-10 April 2015 in Las Vegas, is one of the world's largest electronic media shows, covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums... read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | Nigeria, with 125 million mobile subscribers, is not just Africa's largest mobile market. It is also home to one of the most connected and engaged mobile populations on the continent. read more>> | |  | BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI: BD Live reports Burundi's national assembly has approved a draft media law, backtracking from contentious 2013 legislation that was denounced by reporters and rights groups... read more>> | |  | Arthur Goldstuck, writing in BD Live, says many global manufacturers target Africa with the same cut-and-paste products that appear on shelves the world over, but that's changing... read more>> | | | More Africa | |
|  | Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has sent condolences to the family of helicopter pilot, Hendrik Willem Marais, who died in a helicopter crash while providing aerial support against the fire in the Cape Point Nature Reserve... read more>> | |  | Christina Watson When interventions made to raise the levels of mathematics skills and knowledge among South African learners fail to bear fruit, it's understandable that many are quick to feel that we are in a state of crisis... read more>> | |  | Chris Barron In his state of the nation address, President Jacob Zuma said foreign land ownership was a threat to South Africa's control of its own food security and therefore foreigners would not be allowed to own land. In addition, the government would cap all land ownership at 12,000ha, he said. read more>> | |  | In terms of contributing to GDP, the biggest thing South African agriculture has going for it is a world-class skills set provided by the commercial farming sector... read more>> | | | More Government news | |
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