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Updated on 25 April 2012. South Africa has a long history of clever TV advertising, with some outstanding brands and campaigns. Probably the stand out brand, though, is Nando’s, the chicken restaurant, who have a reputation for pushing the boundaries (sometimes too far). Recently, Nando’s spoofed one of South Africa’s oldest and most conservative insurance [...]

UK Indie Rock band, The Kaiser Chiefs, have taken a step up in the social business world with their latest album, The Future is Medieval. They’ve made twenty tracks available to their fans. You listen to the tracks and select ten of them, and order them, for your own customised album. You then design a [...]

In his daily blog entry today, Seth Godin provides an amazingly insightful analysis of what he calls the “free-gap”. Many of us who produce intellectual capital for a living (authors, speakers, consultants, but also musicians, artists and the like) battle to find the balance between what we give away for free and what we charge [...]

Tomorrow is April Fools Day – a day widely recognized and celebrated as a day that tolerates practical jokes and general foolishness. In celebration of this day, I thought it would be a nice idea to share some practical joke ideas for you to play on the different generations. Baby Boomers Baby Boomers are prime [...]

Today saw the release of another new iPhone app. I wouldn’t normally comment on such a thing, but this one has captured my imagination, and seems to take collaboration / crowdsourcing to a whole new level. It certainly is a very tangible example of the fact that today’s young people have very little problem sharing [...]

Time posted a fabulous article over the weekend, ‘The Men Who Stole the World‘. A long-ish read (4 pages) by internet reading standards, but well worth the energy and focus required to concentrated on one thing for the amount of time required : ) The story is about 4 guys who changed the online world. [...]

My business partner, Barrie Bramley recently wrote a report about how digital readers are changing his reading habits. I too started using a Kindle in 2010, and have enjoyed it. Much more than I thought I would. There are frustrations, since I use books as academic tools. Kindle books do not have page numbers – [...]

When we talk about “bricks” in relation to cell phones, those old enough to remember the introduction of mobile phones in the the early 1990s immediately think of those big, chunky hand held phones of the early days. But the big BRIC news these days is about Brazil, Russia, India and China (and often BRICI [...]

The news came as a shock today: Blockbuster videos filed for bankruptcy protection in the USA today. I say it’s a shock – not because it’s a surprise, but because it is another deeply disturbing sign that the world of work is truly undergoing some deep structural shifts. It is not a surprise at all [...]

Stephen Fry released his memoirs today, and he has done something remarkable with them. In addition to the book, “The Fry Chronicles” (buy it here at Amazon.co.uk), he has released a smart phone version called myFry (download the iPhone App here). I am a huge Stephen Fry fan. I like his style – it is [...]