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2010 FIFA World Cup
 South African communicators recently shared their key lessons learned around communication challenges during the 2010 FIFA World Cup at an event organised by the African chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The session was hosted in partnership with the IABC Brazil network ahead of the next World Cup, scheduled to be held in the South American country in 2014. Read more >>Digital
 The eRev programme from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) aims to help in the creation of new digital media revenues by bringing together a group of digital media professionals who aim to develop strong products and new revenue streams from emerging media platforms. Read more >>Advertisement:
Seedcamp, a European micro-seed fund that invests in early stage startup companies, has selected 11 South African technology startups to possibly attend the Seedcamp Week programme held in September in London, UK, where they will be in line for a potential €50 000 investment. Read more >> [Rob Dickens] We recently featured an article about the massively popular Old Spice social media campaign. In the article I sung the praises of this campaign like a 10-year-old, braces-sporting teenage girl commenting on the latest Justin Bieber music video. I was a fawning fanboy of the Wieden + Kennedy executed campaign. In the article I stated that I would "do a swan dive into a hot tub" if the campaign hadn't boosted sales. Read more >>Media
 [Thabani Khumalo] The African National Congress' 2007 Limpopo Conference proposed that an independent Media Appeals Tribunal be created to adjudicate complaints from citizens about media publications. The suggestion put the ANC on collision course with media journalists, editors, analysts and human rights activists who feared that such a process would curtail media liberties. Read more >>HARGEISHA: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has called for the opening of the broadcast media space in Somaliland following a peaceful and a democratic transition of power in the recent presidential election on 26 June 2010. Read more >> TUNIS: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Thursday, 29 July 2010 accused the authorities in Tunisia of engaging in a "relentless campaign" of intimidation and harassment of Zied-el-Heni, a member of the leadership of the Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisiens (SNJT) and of the steering committee of the African Federation of Journalistes (FAJ), the IFJ regional group . Read more >>Mobile
 OSLO, NORWAY: Opera's recently released Mobile Web Report World Cup Edition explores mobile web trends in Africa, announces the first Mobile Web World Cup champion, and explores the top sports sites on the mobile web. Mobile web use is exploding in Africa, according to Opera's State of the Mobile Web Report, published on Wednesday, 28 July 2010. Read more >>Advertisement:
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A United Nations official said on Tuesday (27 July 2010) that Zimbabwe's farming sector has increased food production from 1.2 million to 1.3 million tonnes since the 2008 food crisis. Read more >>The United Kingdom's minister for Africa pledged on Monday (26 July 2010) to increase bilateral trade with Sudan during his first official visit to the country. Read more >> RESTON, US: comScore, Inc yesterday, 29 July 2010, released a global report on women's online usage titled, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which provides an in-depth analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide region and digital channel. Read more >>
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