Bye Suzan.. Hi Suzan..

I have read all the above-mentioned posts and they played a huge part in the extent to which I revere Suzan as a thought leader in her area of expertise. Suzan sometimes makes me think of her as Margaret Thatcher – the iron lady – when I read the iciness in her some of her tweets. She does not pull punches. She also makes me think of Cape Town-based webhead Rafiq Philips when she tweets in incomplete sentences. What I like most about her though is that she is completely herself. Although she works in an industry that necessitates communication, conversation and interaction.. her Twitter bio makes it abundantly clear that she has no interest in “tweetups” (meetups with people she connects with on Twitter). I like that.

27 Dinner – again..

There were a few things that really grabbed me that night. The first were the t-shirts worn by Mike Stopforth and Anice Hassim. Mike’s had the Creative Commons logo on it and said “Creative Commoner”.. nifty. Anice’s shirt said: “I see dead pixels”.. brilliant. The other thing was Anice’s talk. It centred around the infinite potential held by mobile technology and how everyday tasks that we take for granted will someday be done via the interface on your handset. I captured the footage below. If you can actually hear Anice above the noise, you’ll know exactly what I’m on about. I was really impressed by his insight and foresight. I hope I get to hear him do this again soon..

I choose to be remarkable..

The answer to that question weighed strongly in favour of the “i’m here” factor then, but now – in a changed economy – everything is geography-independent and is driven by people with big ideas.. people who make change happen. Then he continues on to something that really abducted all my attention (i’m a natural mental multi-tasker) for the full 2 minutes he spent expounding on this. Mongezi asks why one should give stuff away for free, and his answer is classic. Seth says that two mindsets are at play here. The poverty mindset, which holds that everything is about me.. mine.. more for me and the tendency to hold on to things. The mindset of wealth – on the other hand – says that “i can be generous”. He says people who give stuff away are the ones with real people with real power; the ones who can afford to. Reminded me of Chris Andersen’s “Free”, which I read last year sometime.

..on Talent and on Skill..

The one thing about this video that really grabbed me is how Will Smith breaks down the difference between talent and skill, and which one should be given priority. Without saying too much, I just thought I’d share this with those that know me, those that love me and those that come across this blog via random Googling.

Homebase and Outpost Marketing

I believe in the video above popular blogging guru Darren Rowse explains perfectly what I have been doing for quite some time to build my social media presence. I have just never thought about actually putting it in words and “terming” it.

So there.. YESS.. I’ve been doing Homebase and Outpost Marketing all this time..

The BIG HiFi Corporation BRANDFAIL.

The sale was rung up and on my way to the door I looked at my slip. DAMN ! I just told Afzalun that nobody assisted me and she – completely disregarding and disrespecting me – went ahead and assigned the sale to someone named Vivendhran.
I turned on my heels right there and then and confronted her. In what seemed like nanoseconds, and without the decency of offering an apology, she reversed the sale and rung it up anew.

If I was in management at HiFi Corporation, Sylesse, Afzalun, Vivendhran and Zaid would all be unemployed right now.

Celebs, Twitter and Conversation

Which leads me to what Oprah said the other day about Demi Moore.. I don’t remember the exact lines, but it went something like: “these people are so used to getting paid to act.. they find it the most difficult thing to be themselves when there’s no script and no director”

Mr. Shift is not coming

There is no cookie-cutter pattern or even right way to do social media. You don’t have to blog every day. You don’t have to retweet everything the people you follow say.

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