Climbing the ladder - 9 Sep 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Africa is slowly but surely climbing the ladder in the advertising world, says Ogilvy Africa's Alan Edgar. He says that the standard of African advertising is improving to the point where Africa and South Africa will soon be able to compete on equal terms. read more Good news all-round - 2 Sep 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Yesterday, 1 September at the annual Highway Africa Conference in Grahamstown, Peter Horrocks, director of BBC Global News, announced some good news - BBC will be opening a new pan-African Unit in Johannesburg this month displaying the BBC's continuing commitment to Africa. read more Becoming a force for good in Africa - 26 Aug 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Frik Landman poses the question: What is the role of management training in Africa? He says that the millions of managers we have on the continent has the opportunity to shape a better Africa since they are making daily decisions from operational to strategic level, and operating, influencing and directing resources in the public and business sectors. So, basically, if organisations want to become a force for good in Africa, they'll need to start focussing on equipping and developing managers. Françoise Henderson writes about helping translators change the world. read more How not to write ads - 19 Aug 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Need some tips on writing ads? Or rather how not to write ads? Have a look at Claudio Milo's five "do not" tips when writing ads and improve your level of quality for your readership. In BizCareers, Juliette Attwell gives a few suggestions on how social media should be used significantly in your search for a new job. In more Africa-specific news, Ethiopia has signed a mobile expansion deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to expand its telecommunications network and MTN Ghana is rallying all developers who are interested in creating apps to satisfy the local market to enter its apps challenge. Do you have what it takes? Lastly, don't forget to vote in the Times' Creative Press Ad Challenge before 28 August and stand a chance to win yourself a Samsung tablet. read more Africa: Let’s walk the walk we’ve talked - 12 Aug 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Dawn Rowlands, CEO of Aegis Media South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, feels that we need to take a closer look at why these creative media festivals like Cannes Lions are relevant and what impact they should have on the African media and marketing landscape. read more Move your hiney and register for Highway Africa! - 5 Aug 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] If there is one thing you do not want to miss, almost as much as you would not want to miss your child's first steps, then it's this year's Highway Africa Conference. Did I just compare a conference to a life changing moment? Well then, you get my urgency. read more No more ads for Morgan - 29 Jul 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Less than a week before the crucial elections in Zimbabwe on 31 July 2013, it was reported that the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) have refused to air two campaign ads with electoral messages from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife. The reason supposedly being that "the messages were too powerful" and would be difficult for ZANU-PF to match them. read more Viva media freedom in Africa! - 22 Jul 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] It seems that apart from things like attaining world peace and finding a cure for HIV/Aids, is the continual struggle of journalists the world over to have their rightful media freedom and freedom of expression. This past weekend, hundreds of Somalian journos, media managers and the like from broadcast, print and online media have renewed their objections to the proposed new media law which was adopted by the Council of Ministers of Somalia. read more Hello Africa - 15 Jul 2013[Ilse van den Berg, @Biz_Africa] Recently, I decided to venture into the wild for three weeks travelling from Pretoria up to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia. I must admit it turned out not to be as wild as I had imagined - apart from free roaming wild animals of course. read more The hashtag and Facebook - 8 Jul 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] I've comes to terms with the fact that not everybody knows how to use a hashtag on Twitter. In the past I used to get even more annoyed when users 'hashtagged' on Facebook - because it just didn't have a purpose there. read more All eyes on Africa - 1 Jul 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] For the past several weeks, all eyes have been on Africa, particularly South Africa, as the world holds its breath over Nelson Mandela's health. With one update after the other, the former president of South Africa's eldest daughter has slammed the media for apparently 'acting like vultures'. read more Collaboration. The key to Africa's success? - 24 Jun 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] I've just returned from having few a days of leave, so getting back into the swing of things was a little tough this morning; from catching up on email to bringing you the latest news from across Africa. Thanks to the rest of the team for filling in while I was away. Two articles caught my attention today, namely Africa is all about relationships and Connecting with the continent by Nick Durrant. read more Connect with us - 10 Jun 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] When you have something like 3 million website page views and over 350,000 people reading your website monthly, it not an easy feat getting to know who your readers are. So in order for us to get to know you, what you read, and how you interact with our site, we're asking you to do us a little favour. read more Winning in Africa! - 3 Jun 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] Many articles have been written about doing business in Africa. Some articles have told us 'How to do business in Africa', while others have given us tips on how to do certain things. read more eLearning Africa 2013 happens this week - 27 May 2013[Evan-Lee Courie, @evan1985] Now in its eighth year, eLearning Africa will one again bring together a wide range of perspectives on ICT for development, education and training and takes place in Windhoek, Namibia, starting on Wednesday, 29 May and running until Friday, 31 May 2013 - under the theme 'Policy and Innovation in Education in Africa'. Tradition, Change and Innovation are the overall themes for eLearning Africa 2013, but the main focus of the conversations that will take place is on local innovation in education, on tablets, mobiles and MOOCs; on healthcare delivery and on livelihoods and agriculture, especially for rural communities. This year our focus will be on innovation and we are all really proud that some of the most exciting and innovative new solutions in education have been pioneered and developed in Africa - Rebecca Stromeyer, founder of eLearning Africa and executive director of organisers, ICWE. A team from the South African College of Business will be attending and we're expecting to publish the latest updates with all the happenings from the conference - so if this is your interest, you know where to come. In news this week: |
