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The desire to engage at every stage of the customer lifecycle has reportedly been the unrealised goal of many marketers, but this may no longer be the case. Marketers are putting mobile interaction in the hands of consumers and finding clever, gratifying ways to add value to every aspect of the brand experience, reports the chief marketing officer (CMO) council in a new study recently released. 
The Afrinolly Shortfilm Competition, launched late last week, offers budding filmmakers and documentary/animation content creators the opportunity to win prizes in a competition valued at US$100 000. 
Mi-Fone has appointed Victor Odada as the country manager of Kenya to increase the presence of the mobile devices brand in Kenya. Odada will be in charge of developing customer and business relationships that will help meet the dynamic needs of the mass-market sector in Kenya. 
Kenyan-based Lamu Homes & Safaris, the organiser of trips to Lamu for local and international tourists, is now using a Z-Card to promote Lamu as a destination of choice. 
The Digital Asia Festival, celebrating the best of Asia's digital marketing industry, drew to a close in Beijing with the awards ceremony, where the 2012 winners were revealed and celebrated. Ten jury members, led by Matias Palm-Jensen, European chief innovation officer, McCann Erickson, were present in Beijing to view, deliberate over and decide on the winners. 
WASHINGTON, USA: A US soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret files to WikiLeaks has offered to plead guilty to some but not all of the charges he faces in a pending court-martial, according to his defence lawyer. 
LONDON: Canon signed a three-year renewal of its worldwide partnership with the World Press Photo Foundation at the opening of the World Press Photo exhibition in London recently. The new contract also marks the 20th anniversary for the two organisations working together to empower photographers to tell a story. 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Some people logging onto Twitter this week had their passwords reset after a routine security precaution was applied to more users than intended. 
SAN FRANCISCO, US: A US judge on Wednesday was considering a request by Apple that would pull Google from the sidelines in a long-running patent war with Samsung over mobile gadgets powered by Android software. 
NEW YORK, US: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards, honouring the "World's Best Advertising," has announced a total restructuring of the International Advertising Awards competitions and categories. There will be 14 competitions designed to reflect the current work being produced globally, giving the awards show the most relevant parameters to measure creative communications. | Company news |
Branding
SOUTH AFRICAWest Africa HKLM Case Studies - HKLM
From 2011 to 2012, HKLM has developed a brand platform and corporate identity for Kenna, created the visual language for all Glo's marketing and communication for their entry into the Ghanaian market, refreshed the First City Monument Bank's brand platform and corporate identity, and developed a brand platform and create a corporate identity for Aquila. Read more >>Out-of-home
SOUTH AFRICAKLM Royal Dutch Airlines returns to Zimbabwe with Alliance Media - Alliance Media
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has resumed flights to Zimbabwe after a 13-year break in the route. Alliance Media was selected as KLM's media partner to promote the service and Alliance Media Zimbabwe, who holds the exclusive advertising concession to all of Zimbabwe's airports, has installed media within the airport for KLM. Read more >>| Government |
SOUTH AFRICAMinister Pandor to speak at WISE
PRETORIA: Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor, is expected to deliver a paper under the theme "Collaborating for Change" at the fourth World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASouth Africa elected to ECOSOC
PRETORIA: South Africa has been overwhelmingly elected by the Members of the UN General Assembly to the 47-Member Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). ECOSOC is one of the Principal Organs of the United Nations alongside the Security Council and General Assembly. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAGovt explores ways to unlock rural wealth
JOHANNESBURG: Government says it will use the two-day Communal Property Association (CPA) workshop to explore ways in which communal land located in rural areas can benefit those who live on it by unlocking the underlying mineral wealth. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASharp rise in household expenditure
Expenditure by South African households has increased by 24.6% between the years of 2005/2006 and 2010/2011, the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) of 2010/2011 has found. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICADti clarifies revised B-BBEE codes
SOUTH AFRICAMonitoring, evaluation improves service delivery
SOUTH AFRICAE-tags will be used in other provinces
SOUTH AFRICASA, Cuba discuss economic assistance package
SOUTH AFRICANamibia President given rousing reception by MPs
SOUTH AFRICAStricter BEE code could crush non-profit sector
SOUTH AFRICA'Managing' the rand will not help exporters
| Motoring |
SOUTH AFRICAToyota 86 is made for driving pleasure
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Say Toyota and words such as solid, reliable, good value spring to mind, not sexy and desirable - but that has all changed with the arrival of the Toyota 86, the prettiest, affordable two-seater hard top sports car to arrive in this country for a long, long time. Read more >>More Motoring news...
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICAThe Marine - where you can have a whale of a time
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] One of my first hotel visits as a travel writer a long while ago was to The Marine in Hermanus. Even then, it was the premier place to stay. I tried to find my review of that first visit to refresh my memory of our experience but I couldn't. However... Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASugar Beach... where time stands still
[Rod Baker] Good old plantation (colonial) architecture, good old plantation hospitality. Sugar Beach is the ultimate resort to relax... Where a couple of days feels like a week - and you could be excused for not falling down if you saw Rhett Butler lugging Scarlet past you up the stairs and telling her 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn - you're coming upstairs to check out my new luggage. And that's an end to it!' Read more >>More Travel news...
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