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Top company and news stories 6 August 2018Alistair Mokoena says the advertising industry needs to modernise
Linda Graham asks who owns your LinkedIn profile?
John Sanei shares 10 steps on the road to conscious capitalism
Media24 CEO Esmaré Weideman retires, Ishmet Davidson to succeed
Nkanyezi Masango is The Skulls 2018 chair of judges
Avatar appoints Grant Sithole as new CCO
#Loeries2018 is next week, so I jog with Joe Public
Our #WomensMonth special section has daily fresh content
Jessica Tennant chats to the following #Newsmakers: Samantha Cowen, on joining Hot 91.9FM's breakfast show; Elana Afrika-Bredenkamp, the new voice on Jacaranda FM; and Atisha Gopichund, on embracing femininity to boost her careerDiscover 2018's Fairlady Santam Women of the Future Awards finalists
Louise Marsland unpacks Reporters without Borders' report on dealing with troll armies
In #FairnessFirst, find out how to avoid cultural appropriation in advertising
Juanita Pienaar gets the young insiders' scoop on Cannes Lions 2018 from Cinemark's Young Lions competition winners
In #NewBiz this week, Shell places four WPP agencies on its creative agency roster
I went #BehindtheSelfie with Abigail van Zyl, MD and founder of remote-based agency, The Digital Thread
I also report back from #CEMAfrica2018 on storytelling that creates emotional relevance; talking about emotion in the boardroom; and why customer loyalty is becoming a thing of the pastLeigh Andrews
Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SAComment 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 |
Leigh Andrews What do roller derbies, feminism and food blogging have in common? The answer is purple-haired Taiwanese-South African copywriter, foodie and author, Ming-Cheau Lin, who uses her platforms to educate the industry on being mindful of multiculturalism and better reflecting 'otherness'...read |
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linda graham Have you ever considered that your LinkedIn profile (along with your password and connections) could actually belong to your company? I kid you not...read | 
Alistair Mokoena There has long been a need for the advertising industry to modernise. Now digital transformation is upon us and change is non-negotiable. At the same time, the industry is facing disruption from new entrants...read | 
Leigh Andrews When you think of Loeries Creative Week, you're likely to picture glitzy award nights and networking with industry colleagues over drinks in Durban. If you work at Joe Public United, it's more likely a picture of sweat and the satisfaction of improving SA's creative future...read |
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View gallery | |  | Cape Town is bidding to host the 2022 Women Deliver Conference and as part of the bid, the Cape Town and the Western Cape Convention Bureau, a division of Wesgro, will be running a #WomenDeliver2022 social media campaign, sharing the journey and vision of local women during August... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Red Carpet Creative, formally known as Red Carpet Concepts, is led by MD Jade Allen. Here, she shares some of the barriers she's had to overcome in the first 10 years of business, more about the rebrand, and why she doesn't believe in glass ceilings... read | |  | Claire Cobbledick Every single day, in the English-speaking world, five new books are published on the topic of leadership. A cursory Google search for the term how to lead delivers 1.3 billion results in less than a second. Clearly, this tells us that there are a) no shortage of leadership styles in the world and b) no shortage of people in leadership positions that want to learn how to improve their leadership style... read | |  | Margaret Hirsch's rise to success has not been easy. From spending some of her childhood in foster care and working in a hairdressing salon at age 12, to being fired for being pregnant... read | |
| | | | |  | | |  | Issued By Berge Farrell ABInBev Africa appointed BF to design their 2018 FIFA World Cup Limited Edition packs as part of their activations linked to their global partnership with FIFA... read | |  | Paula Sartini It is important for marketers to take a step back and assess their brand and the story it tells its customers before determining which technology solution is the right one to meet their brand needs... read | | |  | Leigh Andrews Ask Afrika MD Sarina de Beer explained at the final day of the seventh annual CEM Africa Summit why data is the current trending commodity of 2018 and what it'll take to really resonate with today's fickle social consumer. It was quite the eye-opener. Here's what you missed... read | | |  | Issued By Just Design House of Coffees Hug-in-a-Mug has released a new flavour... read | |  | | |  | Andrew MacKenzie We will almost certainly wake up tomorrow with a new platform, feature, or app; this raises a few critical questions for advertisers and marketers: how will we keep up? Should we rush in to adopt? And how do we adapt to these new trends?... read | | |  | Issued By TBWA TBWA\South Africa says education and learning need to become key pillars of growth for the economy to thrive - but this requires corporate SA to do more to keep its staff at the cutting edge of digital change and development... read | | |  | Sindy Peters Celebrating Women's Month on Biz, we chatted to Keri-Leigh Paschal, executive director of Nation Builder, to find out more about the women empowerment space in SA... read | | |  | Johanna McDowell A seven-member panel of leading marketers met with more than 30 agencies last month at an IAS Masterclass to discuss the thorny and often misjudged, issue of collaboration among agencies for the purpose of achieving business objectives for marketers... read | | |  | Issued By Scarlet Letter IndigoCube has appointed Scarlet Letter to meet its marketing requirement for media and digital content... read | | |  | Issued By Primedia Broadcasting Music stimulates the mind and aids a feel-great workday. This is especially true for Kfm 94.5's workday listening power team: Tracey Lange and Ryan O'Connor... read | | | | | |  | SABC 3 has announced that it is welcoming five brand new faces to the channel as the fourth season of Presenter Search on 3 comes to an end... read | |  | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster Question: What do Malta and Iceland have in common besides being Game of Thrones locations? Answer: More than you think... read | | |  | Issued By Loeries You have the opportunity to choose from eight (four in the morning and four in the afternoon) Loeries MasterClasses on Thursday, 16 August, to learn from leading brand communicators... read | | | |  | Silicon Cape launches their new Africa-first strategic membership plan to enable the accelerated inclusion of tech startups... read | | | | Kajol "As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them." |
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