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Mobile, connected AfricaThere's no denying we're in the age of disruption. That's why Ngugi Mungai says not to wait for another Uber to drive you out of the market - while the digital revolution has left many casualties along the way, it's also created huge opportunities for growth, particularly in the realm of mobile business. Keeping mobile front and centre, Ericsson's recent Africa Night event took this a step further by discussing the establishment of smart cities as part of the process of developing a connected Africa. As responsive design and visual content is set to play a major part in the mobile business future, Charles Mburugu shares guidelines for using images in blog posts. These include making sure your images are optimised for search engines and users alike, as well as using images of real people rather than generic stock images - here's why... 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". | Weekly top stories |
|  | [Ngugi Mungai] The digital revolution has transformed the business landscape, creating huge opportunities for growth, but also leaving many casualties along the way... read
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 | Issued by Bizcommunity.com Next month on Bizcommunity we're very excited to be revealing to you the people behind some of your favourite and award-winning brands. Those unsung heroes responsible for the custodianship of brands - the brands you do business with, work for and love... read | |
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 | Danette Breitenbach The new Global Coca-Cola strategy and campaign was unveiled at the Che Argentine restaurant located in the trendy urban neighbourhood of the Maboneng precinct in Johannesburg... read | | |
 | Merck, a leading science and technology company, have announced the launch of its second "Merck More than a Mother" campaign in Africa for the first time in Uganda... read | | |
 | Africa's first home-grown platform for legal music downloads launched in Senegal on Wednesday with a mission to promote African artists, pay them properly, and fight internet piracy. read | |  | Dee Stephens There are many articles and info hubs online that offer you all the very best advice on SEO, the on page, the off page, the H1, the user journey, the meta this, meta that, oh, blah blah fish paste..! read | |  | Issued by The Media Image If an agency consistently took home major international awards every year, including the European Search Awards' 'Best PPC Campaign', you'd have heard of them right? Probably not... read | | |
 | MTN has announced the launch of the 2016 edition of MTN Women in Business (WiB), a series of events through which MTN recognizes and celebrates outstanding female business leaders... read | |  | The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a programme established by Barack Obama in 2010, is seeking young southern Africans, aged 18-35, to join its Regional Leadership Centre Southern Africa (RLCSA) programme... read | |  | Gabriella Mulligan While the crux of Africa's reputation for tech innovation lies in unique mobile applications, the continent is home to a host of startups creating home-grown cutting-edge hardware solutions... read | | |
 | The Africa 2016 Forum, which was run in Egypt this week, has called on African countries to create greater trust and cooperation between government and the private sector and for African businesses... read | | |
 | Sanele Mgaga Over the past couple of years, well since I've been aware of the goings on of this here industry, I've noticed this growing trend of separating the advertising media world based on the so-called "traditional" and "new media"... read | | |
 | At Ericsson's Africa Night, a networking and conversation platform for key stakeholders on matters related to the digitisation of Africa... read | |  | With sub-US$50 smartphones on the way, rapid improvements to telecom infrastructure, and the availability of affordable cloud applications, the mobile Internet is rapidly transforming the way that Nigeria does business... read | |  | Orange has announced a new partnership with Google to bring the best of mobile internet across its full African and Middle Eastern (Orange MEA) footprint... read | | |
 | Charles Mburugu The phrase 'A picture is worth a thousand words' is very true when it comes to blogging. Nowadays, people are bombarded with tons of content on a daily basis... read | | |
 | APO, the sole press release newswire in Africa and the global leader in media relations relating to Africa, announced the launch of www.Africa-Newsroom.com... read | | |
 | Nigeria is a land of diversity and opportunity, as well as being Africa's most populous country... read | | |
 | Kirby Gordon Omni-channel is about providing access to services and products in a variety of contexts: online, in stores, on mobile devices or via third parties and, in 2016, pure-play trade is falling away to be replaced... read | | |  | The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) recognises creative excellence in the out of home (OOH) medium through its OBIE awards... read | |  | Arabic Day, at the Dubai Lynx, progresses to a full three-day programme from 6-8 March 2016 on the new Regional Stage, following its successful debut in 2015... read | | | More International | |
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