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MARKETING & MEDIA

WIN - leading the drive to greater gender balance

[Danette Breitenbach] Many women enter the media and media-related industries, but there are still very few at the upper and board levels in the sector. This is set to change with the launch of WIN South Africa.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

[NewsMaker] Mimi Kalinda

[Louise Burgers] As a former MTV and Channel O presenter and filmmaker with renowned Hollywood director, Spike Lee, FleishmanHillard's latest key appointment, Mimi Kalinda, brings a wealth of media and communications experience to her new position of Director: African Lead for the global communications consultancy.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

The rise of the super app

[Richard Firth] Nearly 1.5 billion computing devices were sold around the world in 2013. PCs accounted for 300 million, tablets 180 million and mobile phones for just under a billion units.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Seven tips for PR pros in the healthcare industry

[James White] As PR professionals within the healthcare industry, we have two main concerns: Establishing trust and spreading information.

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TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY

Tourism Marketing: Location strategy for your business

[Mike Saunders] In business, you realise and learn how important your business's location is to its success. Not only is your physical location important, but also your digital location. More and more consumers are turning to the digital landscape first to find the businesses that they are looking for, and you need to be in their field of vision straight away.

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Serendipitous collaboration

[Debbie Hathway] Cape Town City Ballet presents Ballet Beautiful at the Artscape Theatre from 4 July, 2014. Debbie Hathway chats to Yarisha Singh about her new commission.

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LEGAL

Impact of fiscal amendments on taxation of risk policies

[Emil Brincker] The National Treasury released the first batch of fiscal amendments on 10 June 2014. One of the most significant amendments relates to the way in which risk policies will be taxed in the hands of long-term insurance companies.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

The next decade of disruption

[Louise Burgers] As a teenager in the 1980s, I had high expectations of the future, like, in the Year 2000...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#BadValuesGoViral: The ethical dilemma in social media

[Jenny Reid] Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are becoming a popular communication trend in business. Unfortunately, the trend sometimes comes with unforeseen ethical problems for the business.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Big ideas have a bigger role than ever

[Adelaide Potgieter] There is nothing that should excite the world more than the power of creativity. It is the most phenomenal process of primal thought and has the ability to spark new fields of industries, products, technologies...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Media need to invest in compelling content

[Anton Harber] So, how are our newsrooms are doing in the digital world when compared with those overseas?

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Media, marketers, advertisers living on a different planet

[Chris Moerdyk] It is more than just perception that a lot of marketers and advertising agencies seem somehow to have lost touch with the media they use to get messages across to the consumer.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Year 2020: Why is the world so zoomed?

[Naseem Javed] Almost every country of the world has selected some worthy or some abstract and ambitious targets towards the year 2020.

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Celebrating 20 years of an iconic blend

[Eugene Yiga] Most people will remember 2014 as the year that South Africa celebrated two decades of democracy, but it also happens to be a special year for a special wine.

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