Bring on 2012! - 12 Dec 2011By Evan-Lee Courie
Highlights of the year included the celebration of 10 years since our very first newsletter was sent out in 2001. A huge thank you for continuous support over the years. In September 2011, the Bizcommunity team launched 16 new content channels each containing news, views, research and opinion pieces covering various sectors. In this newsletter, we bring you a list of most popular articles and those that drew the most comment in 2011. Sadly, the battle for media freedom continues. This week, in a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was revealed that there are currently 52 journalists imprisoned in Africa, in nine countries. Let's hope that this changes in 2012. From the beginning of the new year, the 2012 Biz Trends will kick off and run until the end of January, so keep an eye out for this as well as our first newsletter going out on Monday, 9 January. Let's toast to the past year! PS: Keep safe during your travels and festivities and see you in 2012! Evan-Lee Courie (@evan1985) Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive. Send all your Africa marketing news moc.ytinummoczib@swenacirfa and opinion pieces to moc.ytinummoczib@acirfa-srotubirtnoc, also take a look at our guide "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news". Follow Bizcommunity on Twitter @Bizcommunity and join our Facebook page. | Evan-Lee Courie
Evan-Lee Courie is the former Editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity.com. He has completed a BA in English Literature and Communication Science through UNISA and completed several online courses through UCT /GetSmarter including Internet Marketing, PhotoShop and Social Media. At the end of 2015, he embarked on a journey to South Korea to teach English as a Foreign Language to young learners and returned to Cape Town, South Africa in 2017. He returned to Bizcommunity.com in August 2018 as Group Editor for the ITC, Automotive and Logistics portals. In August 2019, he launched the Entrepreneurship news portal at Bizcommunity. In November 2020, he was appointed as Editor: Marketing & Media |
It is with great pleasure that I bring you the last newsletter for 2011. What a year it has been! In August I was appointed to bring you industry related news from across Africa and I can say it's been a fairly smooth couple of months in the driver's seat.
