|  Long Street, renowned as party central in Cape Town's CBD, is now playing host to a horde of colourful monster-like Egos. They're here for the weekend as part of The Loerie Awards 2009 festivities. While the weather may not be playing along with the excitement hanging in the air, the ad industry has arrived in full force with registration beginning early yesterday morning, Thursday, 24 September 2009. 25 Sep 2009 09:36
 South African weblog Glad to be a Girl has won the Best African Blog award at the 2009 Weblog Awards held at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas, US, it was announced yesterday, Monday, 16 March, 2009. The annual non-profit ceremony awards bloggers worldwide. 17 Mar 2009 13:17
Radio stations and their listeners across the country have been aiding disadvantaged communities in their regions through various CSI projects by raising funds, distributing food and providing necessary school materials for less fortunate children. These magic helpers include 567 CapeTalk, East Coast Radio, MPowerFM, Capricorn FM, trufm and Jacaranda 94.2. 13 Feb 2009 09:15
 The South African music industry has recently seen some healthy developments in the online environment, with new platforms popping up to promote this attention-craving and -deserving market. Since mid-2008, the Internet and mobile web have been offering South African musicians and emerging artists a helping hand by providing the means to make their music more easily accessible to fans. Bizcommunity.com takes a look in a two-part series. 29 Jan 2009 10:39
 It seems the digital medium is still not being taken seriously by the creative industry, as evidenced by last year's Bookmark Awards. Matthew Bull, chairman of the Lowe Bull Group and worldwide creative director of Lowe Worldwide, as well as creative counsel for the Online Publishers' Association (OPA), told Bizcommunity.com, however, that digital will be everything in 10 - 20 years' time and the South African industry needs to understand and prepare for this. 22 Jan 2009 10:21
 It is unusual to find a business in Africa that is 100% owned by its government actually thriving - on a continent infamous for bad governance and corruption. For this reason, Ethiopian Airlines is a breath of fresh air. 2 Dec 2008 15:07
 The relationship between CEOs and chief marketing officers (CMOs), as well as the role marketing should play in corporate social investment projects, were topics of discussion at the second annual CMO Council board meeting held in Cape Town last month. Bizcommunity.com spoke to Donovan Neale-May, executive director of the CMO Council, regarding feedback from the meeting, as well as Brand South Africa and Africa's place within the CMO Council global network. 12 Nov 2008 12:14
 Using the mobile instant messaging platform MXit, Marlon Parker, an information technology lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, has over the past seven months initiated a rehabilitation programme for drug addicts in the Cape Flats region that has spread out as far as the Eastern Cape. His aim is to use technology to empower underprivileged communities in an area that is rife with poverty, unemployment, drugs and gangsterism. 29 Oct 2008 09:30
 Fresh from presenting at the 12th Highway Africa conference last week, Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship (Arizona State University, US), gave a lunch talk at the UCT Graduate School of Business on Friday, 12 September 2008. Gillmor's discussion focused on how the media landscape has evolved over the last decade or so and how media and business industries have been affected by social media tools. 15 Sep 2008 09:37
 The Loeries weekend is officially over but it didn't go off without a few shenanigans here and there. While it may be very funny to name and shame the drunk and disorderly, we're not going to. We're rather going to post their pics up on Facebook and poke fun at them that way. We've also handed out a few awards of our own. 28 Jul 2008 11:00
 While the atmosphere on the last day of Loeries 2008 turned out to be rather mellow, it seems most people agreed that something was missing this year as the energetic vibe just wasn't here, with most of the daily activities either cancelled or not quite as entertaining as they ought to have been. 27 Jul 2008 22:35
 If you're not on the Velocity Films pool party list and you gaze from your balcony trying to get a peek of what goes on at the whole affair, here's what you're missing. 27 Jul 2008 15:39
 The Loeries weekend kicked off yesterday afternoon, Friday, 25 July 2008, as festival goers from around the country arrived in busloads, queuing up in the Margate Hotel to sort out paperwork before the annual non-stop party weekend began. It's the year to make your mom proud and the branding all over the place has certainly reinforced that! 26 Jul 2008 20:54
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