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Today's top stories
Advertising
 Jim Freeman, trading director and head of the Telegraph Media Group's cross-media sales team Create, has joined the programme of the WAN-IFRA Advertising Summit, to be held in Hamburg, Germany on 7 October 2010 following the IFRA Expo. Read more >>CSI
 Hyundai, one of the 2010 FIFA World Cup official sponsors is launching its 'One Million Dream Balls for Africa' project. The programme aims to teach life skills such as team work and strategy, build confidence and motivate performance. The delivery of soccer balls will be assumed by NGOs and organisations under the auspices of the UN from July to December 2010. Read more >>Advertisement:
Digital
 [Matt Cohen] A blog is usually a place where individuals or groups publish thoughts and ideas on niche topics, current affairs or daily occurrences. But how do you make a WordPress blog more social and attractive to people wanting to interact and bring it to life? Read more >> [Rob Dickens] Facebook has just announced the mind-boggling achievement of 500-million active monthly users, placing it way out in front of all its rivals. It's not really a race, given that its next closest rival is China's Qzone (owned by Tencent, in which South Africa's Naspers has a 46% stake) with an estimated 200-million users. Social media darling Twitter has yet to sniff the 100-million mark with new memberships peaking last year July at 7.8-million per month. Read more >>Education and Training
The Inter Press Service has announced a third edition of "The Gender and Development Glossary" to offer journalists and writers a guide on reporting with regards to gender, media and development, and the use of gender-related terms and language in media. Read more >>Media
[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi Microfinance Network (MAMN) in collaboration with the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has called on the country's journalists from both print and electronic media to submit their published work for the newly introduced Microfinance Journalist of the Year Award. Read more >> Advertisement:
MOGADISHU: Amnesty International has called on Somali authorities and armed opposition groups in the country to respect freedom of expression amid a growing government crackdown on independent journalism. Read more >>Retail
 Pick n Pay opened its first store in Zambia yesterday, Thursday 22 July 2010, in Woodlands, Lusaka and is the first of seven planned over the next five years. Read more >>[Dumisani Ndlela] A Zimbabwean commercial bank has begun offering South African rand coins to deal with a shortage of change in the country's retail market. Read more >> [Toluwa Olusegun] LAGOS: Nigeria is a place where many more deals are announced than are ever completed. But July saw progress towards the construction of one of three new Nigerian refineries expected to reduce imports of refined petroleum products, a costly and ironic feature of the oil-rich nation's economy. Read more >>  TOKYO, JAPAN: The power of producing limited edition versions of a product should not to be underestimated. Releasing a special "collectors" edition at a premium price is an excellent way to generate PR, as well as enhance the image of a brand. Read more >> NEW YORK, US: A recent joint study from MediaMind and comScore provides insights into ad effectiveness and user behaviour in entertainment verticals. Read more >>
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