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The 'curse' of creativity... In her TrendTalk column, Creativity's 'curse', Louise Marsland discusses the importance of being creative at work as well as outside of work. Covering the DMX Conference, Leigh Andrews gives some tips to getting your website to stand out from the rest. She also elaborates on Gemalto's African mobile marketing win-win plan, and shares vice president of mobile marketing for Gemalto, Nadia Gonzalez's secrets to getting your African mobile marketing plan right. Alex Salter, CEO of SamKnows, in his piece Connecting with purpose: The internet forces shaping modern Africa, urges African nations to leverage the lessons already learned by other global telecom regulators and governments. In other news, Ogilvy & Mather appointed Paul Shearer as its new CCO Middle East, North Africa; and the AdFocus Awards 2014 took place last week in Johannesburg - congratulations to all the winners! Last but not least, in last week's Biz Takeouts show, @BizWazza had Misha Teasdale and Lauren O'Donnell from Greenpop, and Kilowatt AV CEO, Dillon Jearey in studio. If you missed the show, make sure you listen to the podcast which is now available. That is all from me! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)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 |
| [Louise Marsland] There's a social media meme that likens the brain of a creative person to having 100 tabs open all at once... read more>>
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 | NEWSWATCH: 'The Film and Publications Board has selectively released a contentious draft policy for original content distributed online in South Africa', reports Mail & Guardian. read more>> | | |
 | Increasing the mobile reach in Nigeria for advertisement clients and agencies, Eskimi has launched a Africa-focused mobile real time bidding (RTB) platform... read more>> | | |
 | Africa in Motion (AiM) 2014 was the event's ninth edition and in just over three weeks of films and events, it once again showcased the wonder, diversity and prowess of African cinema to Scottish audiences... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Your business is missing out on key conversions if you don't have a contact form showing on every single web page, says Leon Lategan, CEO of LeonLategan.co.za at the DMX Conference... read more>> | | |
 | Three months after Tigo paid a profit of TZS 14.25 billion ($8.64m) accumulated in the Tigo Pesa Trust Account to its users, the company has announced the first of its regular quarterly payments worth $1.8m to Tigo Pesa users... read more>> | | |
 | Nigeria, where most of the people live on less than US$2 a day, is the fastest growing markets in the world for French champagne and digital TVs and could be the next big growth frontier for luxury goods... read more>> | | |  | NUREMBERG, GERMANY: The Western European market for technical consumer goods closed the third quarter of 2014 with total sales of €47.3bn... read more>> | |  | LONDON, UK: The Time to Change charitable campaign partners with IPC Media for true editorial integration around mental health problems... read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | South Africa needs to accelerate its rate of economic growth if it is to meaningfully reduce its levels of unemployment, says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa... read more>> | |  | According to the latest statistics released by the Department of Environmental Affairs, 1,020 rhinoceros have been poached for their horn to date in 2014... read more>> | | | | | More Government news | |
|  | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor There has been a flurry of fast-finger exercise on social media, lots of tongue-wagging and a flood of photo grabs since the all-new Kia Soul hit the streets because this cute Korean sets new standards for funky-cool and off the wall... read more>> | | | More Motoring news | |
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| Baltasar Gracian "To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else." |
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