This latest initiative, We Blog the World South Africa, follows a very successful tour in 2005, also run for the IMC, in which six top US journalists came to SA and the South African story obtained front page coverage in several major newspapers, along with features in scientific journals.
Blogging is one of the most powerful forms of communication today. Top bloggers are global opinion-formers, read widely by media and decision makers in the public and private sectors. Because blogging features direct personal opinion, there is no sense of mediated messages - the writer tells it like it is.
The itinerary takes the tour from Cape Town via the West Coast to Johannesburg, Soweto, and the Magaliesberg. Focal points of the tour, from 29 November to 9 December, are:
The bloggers will be writing and videoing "on the hoof" for their influential personal websites. Those invited span many fields of interest from scitech and IT to marketing and travel blogging, but all are influential within US and world media. The itinerary aims to offer dramatic stories of achievements and innovation, exciting personalities, engagement with communities, and the stunning scenery for which South Africa is famous.
Nic Haralambous is a South African blogger and media enthusiast. He is the GM for Gauteng of Zoopy, http://zoopy.com and is passionately South African. His personal positive project on the good things happening in our country is SA Rocks, http://sarocks.co.za and this keeps him sane and alive during ‘interesting times' in South Africa.
The blogger tour dates will be from the 29 November to 9 December 2008.
