by Mike Saunders
on March 13, 2012
in Social media, Social Media Strategy, top 20, Top Websites
Over the last few years I have been tracking the Top 20 most popular websites in South Africa. Comparing 2010 and 2011 results revealed that social media was definitely growing as a high priority for South Africans. In this analysis there are some interesting and valuable pieces of information we can observe. LinkedIn beats Twitter [...]
Top 20 Websites in South Africa 2012 original posted on Keynote Speaker Mike Saunders Blog
by Mike Saunders
on September 14, 2011
in Africa, Social Business, Social media, Talent, Technology, Web 2.0
Over the past few months I havebeen looking extensively at the topic of Social Reinvention. This is the process of reinventing our business to incorporate social media and social technology. I have come to believe that this is imperative for business to adopt in order to claim a competitive advantage in the future. Whilst doing this research [...]
by Mike Saunders
on April 19, 2011
in Africa, Articles, Blogging, Consumer 2.0, Recession solutions, Social Business, Social media, Talent, Technology, Web 2.0
The recruitment industry in South Africa looks like it is on the rise for the first time in two and a half years. Human Resources South Africa reported “employment grew by 5.6% during March.” As business slowly starts to find its feet again after a rough few years in the global economy recruiters are looking [...]
by Mike Saunders
on March 2, 2011
in Africa, Consumer 2.0, Featured archive, Generation Y, Generations, Social media, Web 2.0
Over the last month Mike Saunders and a few associates ran a small study on Generation Y in South Africa. We interviewed 144 students with an average age of 18 years old. The gender split was 60% female and 40% male. The findings were quite interesting and echoed many generalizations about generation Y. In South [...]
by Collin Smith
on March 2, 2010
in Articles, Demographics, Generation Y
Shifts in societal change over the decades have radically changed the way we do business. Some creep up on us while others happen like a tsunami. Is your business in symbiosis with its ever changing environment? In order to attract and retain your target market, and indeed survive and thrive in current times, businesses need [...]
by Graeme Codrington
on October 24, 2009
in Diversity, Ethics, Global View
Like 8 million other Britons, I watched BBC’s “Question Time” on Thursday night. Nick Griffin, the head of the British National Party (a right wing party who restrict membership to white’s only and want to keep Britain “British” – by which they mean white, Caucasian) was given a place on the stage alongside other panel [...]
by Barrie Bramley
on June 3, 2009
in Customer service / experience, Future Trends, Generation Y, Marketing and sales
Thanks to my friend Bev from SimonSays Communications for this link. The Sunday Times announced it’s ‘Times Generation Next’ cool brands survey results on 28 May 2009. 5000 tweens, teens and young adults between the ages of 8-22 were polled on their coolest brands, and Coke came out on tops with it’s Brrrr campaign. Bizcommunity.com [...]
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