Today is World Press Freedom Day Today, Tuesday, 3 May 2011, is World Press Freedom Day, marking the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in 1991 in Windhoek, Namibia. Above is the 2011 Map of Press Freedom, a graphic representation of country ratings produced by Freedom House, an independent nongovernmental organisation that has monitored press freedom worldwide since 1980. This map reflects the findings of Freedom House's study Freedom of the Press 2011: A Global Survey of Media Independence, which rates the level of press freedom in 196 countries and territories during 2010. Based on these ratings, countries are classified as Free (green), Partly Free (orange), or Not Free (blue).
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 WASHINGTON: The number of people worldwide with access to free and independent media declined to its lowest level in over a decade, according a Freedom House study released yesterday, 2 May 2011. The report, Freedom of the Press 2011: A global survey of media independence, found that a number of key countries experienced significant declines, producing a global landscape in which only one in six people live in countries with a press that is designated Free. Read more >> This evening on World Media Freedom Day (Tuesday 3 May 2011), candles will be lit at two vigils - one in London and one in Johannesburg - for South African freelance photographer Anton Hammerl to mark the 29th day of his captivity in Libya and call for his release. Also happening this evening in the Eastern Cape is a World Press Freedom Day panel debate on "What kind of public broadcaster does the Eastern Cape need?" Read more >>Advertising
 [Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] The next month or so will see media, sponsorship, advertising and marketing companies assessing the financial impact of a ban on alcohol advertising. The SABC has been the first to have the courage to stand up and be counted by telling Parliament that it will lose R400 million a year. Read more >>Advertisement:
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Talks begin over Bafana Bafana trademarkStanton Woodrush has entered into negotiations with the South African Football Association (SAFA) and has agreed to submit a proposal to SAFA for the sale of the rights of the Bafana Bafana trademark in class 25, following a meeting on 20 April 2011. No further statements will be made until the conclusion of the negotiations.Advertisement:
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 [Daniel Munslow] Customer relationship management... customer service... customer loyalty... There are a dozen ways to describe companies' attempts to retain customers. The reality today is that no matter what type of industry in which you're operating, customer-centric strategies and initiatives are at the front of the quest for higher profits. Behind the scenes, however, there are a number of internal processes that need to be brought into line before customer service can be fully realised. Read more >>CSI
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Design
 A design competition, held last week during Green Office Week, saw students from Design Time, a design school based in Woodstock in Cape Town, produce office furniture made from used and discarded car parts. Europcar initiated this project to reinforce and highlight the need to adopt the three Rs - Reduce, Re-use and Recycle - to make work environments more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Read more >>Advertisement:
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The 2011 Digital Media Publishing Awards will be announced at a workshop to be held on 1 June 2011 at Ster-Kinekor, Primovie Park, Sandton from 2.30-4.30pm, where the judges will provide insights on the specific components of the winning entries - innovation, integration, content and creativity. Read more >>Direct Marketing
 According to Ricky Robinson, CEO of LRMG Performance Agency, experience is the new economic offering. A company creates an experience when it intentionally uses services as the stage and goods as props to engage people. These experiences will be different for everyone, depending on the engagement at an emotional, physical, intellectual or even spiritual level. Read more >>Education and Training |  |
 The 2011 rollout of L'Oreal's BrandStorm began in March 2011 when its South African recruitment manager, Tanya Smith together with HR graduate Paballo Makhetha, visited the AAA School of Advertising, University of Cape Town and WITS Business School to present this year's student competition theme - Be creative and attract men to salons: imagine a new service experience and its associated range of products for L'Oréal Professionnel Homme. Read more >>Eventing
 NEWSWATCH: Lauren Beukes has won the 25th Arthur C Clarke Award in the 2010 British Science Fiction Awards for her second novel, Zoo City!, reports Matrix Online. Read more >>Advertisement:
Magazines
O magazine appoints Chereen Gibson Chereen Gibson takes up her new appointment as beauty editor at O, The Oprah Magazine from 1 May 2011, initially based in Johannesburg. She is currently the beauty editor at Woman&Home, a position she has held since January 2010. Media | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] As election campaigning gains momentum in South Africa, many vote-seeking politicians trek all over the place, looking for support and publicity, but are seemingly untroubled by the fate of thousands of the country's children still living in extreme poverty. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) this week has called on journalists to hold politicians accountable through a series of questions to 'force' children's issues in election manifestos. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has denied the SABC3's appeal against a finding that the broadcaster contravened the broadcasting code, reports Mail & Guardian. Read more >>Mobile |  |
 Motribe, which focuses on providing a platform for groups, communities, agencies and brands to communicate with each other and their customers via the mobile web, celebrated its 'one million user' milestone at the Sinn's S-Bar in Wembley Square Cape Town, late last week. Read more >>Online Media | | Online Media section proudly sponsored by | |  |
 [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Continuing a series of interviews with South Africa's top online managers, IOL GM Quentin Wray tells Bizcommunity.com about the challenges of (and what he's chuffed about) the job he took over at the start of the year - and why he's building a new suite of online title sites for Independent Newspapers. Read more >>Out Of Home |  |
 The Nelspruit taxi rank is the latest beneficiary in the R15 million upgrade of ComutaNet's Rank TV platform to LED technology. Read more >>PR & Communications |  |
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 [Tinyiko Maswanganyi] Rejection is hard. Rejection can be a setback. In fact, rejection is a setback to most of us. We often don't have the right frame of mind to deal with it. We don't have the attitude to understand it. We don't have the courage to accept it. Read more >>Advertisement: | EMAIL MARKETING - powerful and effective tool to market and communicate
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 LONDON, UK: The recent security breach which exposed millions of online gamers to risk of fraud and loss highlights yet again the need for constant vigilance on the part of anyone who uses the internet for financial transactions and on which they might also post personal information. Read more >> LONDON, UK: C-Squared is currently undertaking a survey of M&M Magazine's awareness, perception and the local media needs, in partnership with The Royal Holloway University of London, through the MBA Programme. Read more >> PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY: WAN-IFRA, in cooperation with the Society for News Design, is organising the third edition of its international conferences dedicated to design for newspapers and magazines, to be held in Paris, France, on 19 May next. Read more >>
Marketing
With marketing costs having gone up substantially in the past few years, more and more boards of directors and non-marketing CEO's are demanding answers with regard to actual returns on investment and measurement. Read more >>Bookings are now open and the programme finalised for the Marketing Indaba Conference which will be held at the CTICC on 19 and 20 May. Read more >>Advertising
On Thursday, 21 April, Volcano Advertising was awarded the prestigious 2011 Tony Koenderman Finweek AdReview Award in the Outstanding Performance (Integration) category for the Garmin 2009/2010 brand campaign. Read more >>The ABF (Advertising Benevolent Fund) and Specialised Exhibitions have joined forces to raise industry awareness at Markex 2011. Read more >>Branding
Ontrack Strategic Integrated Communications, a full-service national brand communications agency, has delivered a 360° brand solution to help launch former prisoner Larry Joe's music career. Read more >>CSI
As part of its Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programmes, Trudon (Pty) Ltd (publishers of the Yellow Pages), has adopted 15 early child development (ECD), primary and secondary school leaders and their teams within Diepsloot, and the surrounding areas with the aim of developing the leadership skills of school management teams. Read more >>Digital
Fourth-year journalism students from Rhodes University's New Media Lab are drumming up experience in blog writing and managing social media, and earning some money while doing so. The New Media Lab has partnered with My Digital Life, an online social media and blogging hub owned by business technology media company, ITWeb. Read more >>With so much sharing and networking happening in the digital world, professionals need to develop their personal brand further than just an online profile in LinkedIn or on Facebook. Digital trends show the enormous personal branding opportunities through online engagement, online conversation, and more advancement in search. Read more >>Education and Training
How does one find out more about these possible careers, and more importantly who is responsible for imparting this information? Here are some answers. Read more >>The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), as part of its drive to be relevant and part of movement towards innovation, creativity and sustainability in business and leadership, will run a unique programme this June to spark a transformation in individuals that will widen their perspectives and give them new insights into solving complex challenges. Read more >> With an outstanding achievement of six out of seven distinctions, Aileen Rodel, 23, of Durban North is the IMM Graduate School of Marketing's top national student for the Bachelor in Business Administration in Marketing for the 2010 academic year. Read more >>Exhibitions
 Computicket is the place to go to book your tickets for The Baby Expo MamaMagic baby and parenting expo, coming to the Coca-Cola Dome on 12-15 May. Wear comfortable shoes as you'll be seeing 400 brands and 200 stands where you'll be able to buy the very latest goods and services to make your life as a parent easier. Read more >>During March 2011, the 'Wild Expo,' combined with the 'Aim' show took place at the Tshwane Events Centre. The 'Aim & Wild Expo' displayed the latest in hunting gear, outdoor supplies, wildlife goods, fishing gear, 4x4 goods and accessories, as well as hunting gear. Read more >>Magazines
 The winter issue of YOU Pulse features the gorgeous Connie Ferguson on the cover. The magazine's content includes a winter photo shoot with the South African actress, plus all her secrets on how she eats what she wants and stays slim. Read more >>Media
 The deadline is fast approaching for the African Access National Business Awards 2011, the nation's showcase of exceptional performance by commerce and industry. Read more >>Cold Press Media forms a partnership with the African Business Travel Association, (ABTA), to gain first hand industry experience and knowledge on travel within the African Continent as well as insight into world market trends. Read more >>Mobile
Organizers of the recently concluded 2nd Annual Thinking Mobile™ Conference & Exhibition brought to you by SABC Mobile report an overall successful event. Read more >>Recruitment | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
Karen Schmikl, Liquid Business Manager at VIP Payroll will be speaking at the upcoming South African Payroll Association (SAPA) conference that is taking place on 4 - 5 August in Cape Town at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch and 17 - 18 August in Johannesburg at Montecasino. Read more >>Research |  |
The South African marketplace has undergone a sea-change over the last three years, with socio-economic forces fragmenting consumer segments and forcing marketers to rethink traditional approaches. Read more >>
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 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Carmaker Kia has a problem in South Africa which is going to get even worse with the arrival of a new 5-door Cerato Hatch - the demand for Kia vehicles already far out-strips the number of vehicles it can supply and the cocky newcomer is going to place even more pressure on imported numbers. Read more >> [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] South Africans are a strange lot. We love to gargle on and on about inflation, crime, corruption, Eskom and other negatives, seemingly oblivious of the fact that, warts and all, this is still in one of the finest countries in the world to live in. Read more >> [Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] Rovos Rail follows the original Cape to Cairo routing through Botswana and Zimbabwe and it is hard not to be touched by the history that unfolds along the route - and it's well worth a trip... Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] The 2011 Tourism Indaba, which will unpack the new goals set for the tourism industry, will kick off on Saturday, 7 May 2011, at the Albert Luthuli Convention Centre in Durban. South Africa, ranked 32nd globally in business tourism, will host the 21st World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa during which President Jacob Zuma will promote tourism on the sidelines by signing the United Nations world tourism organisations' 'Golden Book' in Cape Town. Read more >> The spa at Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Wellness Retreat has been singled out on the Conde Nast Traveler's Hot List 2011 as one of 40 best new urban and rural retreats in the world. Read more >> [Corne Krige] Firstly, I would like to say that it is an honour for me to write a weekly column for Bizcommunity's BizLifesyle section and I really hope that many of you will enjoy my views on current rugby and other sports-related issues. I also welcome any feedback and will talk to the powers that be to make sure that there is a platform for your comments and feedback to reach me. Read more >>- Wendy Robinson appointed new publisher - more info
- New appointments at Scan Display - more info
Featured jobs Rogue Brand Agency is looking for a mid to senior designer with outstanding creative talent, brand design and advertising experience. Read more >>
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Don't hesitate! This is an amazing opportunity for a super talented senior digital designer to join our growing design team, join us now. Read more >>Join the pMailer sales team at one of SA's most successful web software companies. Great product to sell, great incentives, awesome environment. Read more >>- SOS News World Press Freedom Day - Eastern Cape, 3 May
- Quirk's Google Analytics workshop - Cape Town, 4 May
- Southern Africa travel and tourism video awards SATFA - Durban, 6 May
- Cavendish Square national flower show Primedia Lifestyle - Cape Town, 6 May
- Half day consumer protection act workshop Recrutrain Consulting - Johannesburg, 6 May
- Mokgotsi book club launch Mokgotsi Women - Carlswald, Midrand, 7 May
- Film-making - Easter special Apeiro Motion Picture Training Academy - Johannesburg, 7 May
- Basic workshop for screenwriters The Writing Studio - Cape Town, 7 May
- Table of Peace and Unity - Cape Town, 8 May
- WALE 4.0 the forgotten angle theatre collaborative WALE - Johannesburg, 11 May
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