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Oct
23

Want to rent a desk in a co-op work space?

Renting offices is expensive, and often problematic. You have to tie yourself in to a lease, pay a deposit and ensure that your business is viable enough at all times to support it: there is very little flexibility. Which is why, I guess, the concept of sharing office space has taken off hugely in the [...]

Jul
30

Thoughts on Internetix

I attended the Internet Solution conference, Internetix, on Tuesday and I just wanted to blog some thoughts around it.
Conferences are a dime a dozen, of course, but I don’t think I have ever attended one in South Africa that I enjoyed as much. Which got me thinking as to why exactly Internetix was [...]

Jan
28

Internet Guide, an online e-mag for S Africans, launches

Nothing like a need for self promotion to make one dust off their much-neglected blog….
I’ve launched my latest baby, the Internet Guide. It’s an online e-mag in .pdf format, aimed at South African Internet users, focused on all things web.
I’ve wanted to do a magazine like this for a long time – a while back [...]

Dec
8

The importance of handling criticism well

The era of user generated content is, of course, well upon us. And the one thing that users generate more than almost anything else is criticism.  So it make sense that we learn how to deal with it effectively. And yet, the way criticism is given, and the way it is received is still a [...]

Aug
14

A helping hand for online entrepreneurs

You can’t go very far in the local blogosphere without stumbling across a conversation on the lack of funds for web entrepreneurs, lack of online innovation, lack of skills etc.
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I have been trying to come to grips with this problem for some time, but to not much avail. The simple fact is that South Africa [...]