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Community; love, loss and letting go

Community; love, loss and letting go

It’s better to have had community love and let go, then to never have had community love at all.

As a community manager, you know you’re doing something right when your community starts to grow organically and regulate itself – Its bliss; the sought after life where community managers only need to create gripping, informative and engaging content.

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Pinning

Pinning

Pinterest is the latest phenomenon to grab social media addicts. Its steadfast growth in popularity (and subsequently, subscribers) means that it’s currently a greater traffic driver than Google+, according to Mashable.

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Cliff On Everything*

Cliff On Everything*

* I have one book to give away thanks to Gareth Cliff and his team.  All the details on how you can enter at the end of this post. Every time I hear Gareth Cliff on his 5FM Breakfast slot, chances are my body cringes and my ears beg the question: Did he really say [...]

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Coping with Grief

Coping with Grief

It’s taken me this long to talk about it. To really say what I feel. It’s a mere 40 days yet the trauma is still fresh in our minds, hearts and souls. Losing loved ones is never easy; losing them this way is the hardest.

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Review: Nokia E7…

Nokia E7

- the Businessman/woman’s phone Let me set the record straight. I thought after my first Nokia review [Nokia N8], the guys would refuse to send me another phone to review, but I guess they like my honesty. So here are my thoughts on the Nokia E7. I was a little hesitant to test out the [...]

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Gamer, me?! You must be joking!

Xbox Kinect Games

The title gives it all away. The beautiful people at Xbox South Africa decided that they would send me the Xbox Kinect to test out for a bit. I was a little gobsmacked, because if you knew me you would know that I am a little dyslexic when it comes to gaming. I somehow manage [...]

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Ancient City: Petra – Travels 2

Abie's talk

Disclaimer: These a long winded blog posts. Your choice how much you read but these are purely my take on my adventures in the Middle East Land and sea. Onwards on our journey and the true adventures began. Heading from Sharm, we travelled the rest of the Sinai to Nuweiba, passing close to but not [...]

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