MARKETING & MEDIA Why Design Indaba always ‘fills my cup'[Brad Reilly] Design Indaba happened to me two weeks ago… An overload of seminars, art and design installations, music, and film; a celebration and an examination of creativity and beauty... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Durban's Digital Swarm event ‘Storytelling' unlocks vital information on marketing© Wikipedia | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS The workplace is transforming, is your workforce future-ready?[Ilse Burger] In the first session of the workforce transformation breakout session at the Dell EMC Forum, Chris Buchanan, director of Client Solutions at Dell EMC covered the topic of the future-ready workforce... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Treat yo'self at new Lume salon[Ruth Cooper] Forget your usual quiet, white space with pan-pipe music and zen gardens, the new Lume Beauty Atelier in De Waterkant, Cape Town is pure glam bling. That's not to say it lacks the peaceful sanctuary vibe. It offers this, just in a highly polished, gold-glittering, glamorous way. | |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY #BrandManagerMonth: Carlson Rezidor, Africa's aspirational brand[Cari Coetzee] "Instead of starting with a concept and hoping guests like it, we start with the emotions we want guests to experience, then create the concepts necessary to bring them to life." | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Revenge is bittersweet in Nocturnal Animals[Daniel Dercksen] Writer-director Tom Ford spins his magic in the provocative mindbender Nocturnal Animals, a captivating narrative of a story-within-a story where two different worlds and disparate lives collide head-on, where nothing seems to be what it is, and everything becomes twisted. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA #IABDigitalSummit2017: Digital debrief with CSA's Davin Phillips[Leigh Andrews] IAB Digital Summit speaker Davin Phillips is Celebrity Services Africa's executive director. Here, he shares his digital business perspective… | |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Hotel fitness centres, a new gold in the hospitality industryRadisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Lagos, fitness center | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT #OnTheBigScreen: Heroes and nocturnal animals[Daniel Dercksen] Nocturnal Animals, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Kalushi, Kong: Skull Island; and The Bolshoi Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty all release in cinemas this weekend. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Pocket-friendly midday meals at Catharina's at SteenbergThe new light lunch options at Steenberg Estate's Catharina's. | |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE Be aware of possible rental scams© scyther5 – 123RF.com | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS The six rules of digital disruption[Ilse Burger] In his keynote address at the Dell EMC Forum on Thursday, 9 March 2017, Nigel Moulton focussed on transforming for the future... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA A connected digital society is critical for Africa to thrive[Lee Naik] Technology developments have had a profound effect on emerging economies in Africa. The widespread adoption of mobile phones in particular has seen a proliferation of new and innovative ways for businesses to reach and engage their customers, and for governments to provide services to their citizens... | |
FINANCE & INSURANCE Building business around the customerSource: Africa Business Communities | |
MARKETING & MEDIA #BrandManagerMonth: Ross Adami's Uber-cool job[Jessica Tennant] Ross Adami, marketing manager at Uber South Africa, reports back from Uber's nomad programme, a three-month learning and development programme that matches candidates to teams around the globe to tackle some of the most interesting and challenging issues facing Uber today... | |
Lesley Svenson | [With or Without Sugar] PERSONAL BRANDING: What goes into it? How do people manage their image and messages in the public domain? Come and have a glass of wine with Giles Shepherd of The Brand Alive Group and Dick Foxton - communication consultant to some of the most high profile politicians and business people, as they chat about this interesting angle on brands. Have a look at the 'teaser' below, and join in for the full episode on Thursday 16 March. See you then! |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Preferential agreement enriches Mauritius golf offeringGolfer at Tamarina | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Behind the Kirton at Foxcroft Restaurant[Eugene Yiga] For some people, careers are a conscious choice. For Scot Kirton, the award-winning chef behind La Colombe and Foxcroft, the love for what he does made it hard to consider anything else, writes Eugene Yiga... |