2015... Bring it on!
Well, we've reached the end of the year, albeit too often in the dark, but this is the time of the year when we get together with our families and friends and enjoy our time together.
So from all of us here at Bizcommunity.com, to all of you - our clients, advertisers, readers and followers - a hearty Best Wishes to you all, and to those dear to you.
This has not been the easiest of years, but 2014 is almost at an end and if there is one thing history has taught us, it is that South Africans of all colours, creeds and walks-of-life are resilient... We have never let anything get us down for long (if at all), and the challenges we face are simply that... challenges.
So we will meet them head on, and
klap them.
These are our last newsletters for 2014, apart from our festive newsletter this Thursday. We hope that it will help put you in a holiday mood.
We will still be open and operating over the break so keep sending us your news and if you want to advertise any events or jobs, well... here we are.
Thank you to all of you, our subscribers, advertisers, partners and readers for your support during 2014; we look forward to working with you going forward in 2015.
With Best Wishes from the Bizcomm Team.
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 | Louise Marsland The newly appointed managing director and head of commercialisation at Springleap, Trevor Wolfe, will drive Springleap's client base expansion into the African market with the opening of a Johannesburg office... read more>> |
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 | Leigh Andrews Just when you thought it was safe to look at billboard advertising, a recent supposedly Christmas-themed one was pulled for inspiring the ire of parents and potentially ruining Christmas by claiming Santa isn't real... read more>> |
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 | Walter Pike Although he's spent many years in advertising, Walter Pike doesn't attend ad industry events as frequently as he did before. Here he shares insights from the NAB bites event earlier this year... read more>> |
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Donna Rachelson, Issued by Branding and Marketing YOU |
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 | Ruth Cooper The jury may still be out on the long-term health benefits of the Banting diet, but what isn't up for debate is the destructive repercussions of the mass consumption of meat, fish and dairy on the environment... read more>> |
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 | Louise Marsland I expected a helluva lot more from 2014. It was a tough trading year for the industry and it seemed as if we lost far too many local and global icons in the past 12 months. But as always, there was levity, the WTF and the plain ridiculous... read more>> |
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 | Sid Peimer Certain instances aside, such as when you're driving with your spouse, it's nice to know how you're performing. Take the digital world, for instance... read more>> |
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 | The acclaimed series 21 ICONS South Africa will feature the twentieth icon of its second season: Dr Taddy Blecher, a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa... read more>> |
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Gwendolynn De Jager, Issued by Wits Language School |
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 | Leigh Andrews If your brand doesn't have a digital component it's just not going to survive. But don't worry, Julia Raphaely, Chief Executive Officer of Associated Media Publishing, shares their survival strategy... read more>> |
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Neil Clarence, Issued by Vicinity Media |
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 | Leigh Andrews You may need to rethink how easily you click on 'I accept' messages online as these can be legally binding, even without a digital signature due to click wrap agreements, say Pria Chetty and Denise Fouche of EndCode... read more>> |
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| Research: Nearly 90% of local newspaper readers bought fast food in the past three months... read more>> |
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 | Duaan Dekker In an increasingly mobile and virtual business environment, it has never been more important than now to be in close contact with all the functions of your business, individual employees and your customers... read more>> |
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Louise Robinson |
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 | Walter Pike All election campaign managers know the importance of targeting the swing voters. The theory is that in any campaign, there's a group of voters who will support one political party or another no matter what... read more>> |
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 | Antoinette Muller Many of South Africa's sports teams and its associated sponsors are completely missing the plot when it comes to using social media... read more>> |
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 | Leigh Andrews At the end of November, Okuhle Media was recognised as the Western Cape's most deserving entrepreneurs in the established business category of the Western Cape Premiers Recognition Awards. CEO Paula Brown explains the future of TV and sound future-proofing strategies... read more>> |
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 | NEWSWATCH: StarSat has lost its bid to appeal the revocation of its licence to air porn, reports Times Live... read more>> |
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 | Leigh Andrews Looking for a spot of adventure, heroism, courage and self-sacrifice to end your weekend on a high note? Look no further than The Musketeers - it's not another cheesy remake, executive producer Adrian Hodges explains... read more>> |
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 | CANNES, FRANCE: The Jury Presidents for the Cannes Lions, taking place 21-27 June 2015, have been announced... read more>> |
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Russian President Vladimir Putin leads an AFP list of the most influential people of 2014, but Oscar Pistorius is also on the list... read more>> |
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 | LOS ANGELES, US: Beleaguered studio Sony Pictures apologised on Thursday for racially insensitive remarks about President Barack Obama in company emails, the latest in a series of leaks that have left Hollywood reeling... read more>> |
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 | LONDON, UK: The editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper, who led its expansion from a traditional British broadsheet to a digital-first international operation, said on Wednesday that he will step down next year... read more>> |
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 | Gavin Davis, the DA's Shadow Minister of Communications, says Jacob Zuma needs to suspend Ellen Tshabalala immediately... read more>> |
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 | Specialist magazine publishers have lodged a formal complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) against the South African Post Office (SAPO), for breaching its licence conditions... read more>> |
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 | South African Airways (SAA) recently announced its 90-Day Action Plan aimed at steering the airline back to the full implementation of its Long-Term Turnaround Strategy (LTTS)... read more>> |
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 | NEWSWATCH: Photographer Shaun Harris is seeking R20m in compensation from the GCIS for the unauthorised use of a Nelson Mandela photo he took in 1999... read more>> |
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#hruCapeTownAfrican Heart Celtic Soul - 13 Feb 2015 Cape Town Search marketingBlue Magnet Digital Academy - 16 Feb 2015 to 18 Feb 2015 Johannesburg |
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Zig Ziglar "Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success." Ben Sweetland "Success is a journey, not a destination." Brad Szollose "If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing." Michael Jordan "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." Thomas A. Edison "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." |
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