Tweeting at the New Age Business Briefing
By Roy Barford // February 03, 2012
This morning I attended the New Age Business Briefing at the Cape Town International Convention Centre as a Twitter guest of Front Foot Events and Dorette Steenkamp, who tweets for @capetown. The idea was for Twitter guests to provide instant online coverage of discussions with Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille and generate interest in the event using the hash tag #tnabizbrief. Read more…
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Darren Caboz: Quiet at work but hard at play
By Jay Caboz // February 01, 2012
Since 16 January, 2012, Darren Caboz, Flow’s newest programmer, has been hard at work. Working on what? Well, digital cards and only a hundred or so. Read more…
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Record traffic for Table Mountain Cableway: On foot and on the web
By Ingrid Sinclair // January 27, 2012
December 2011 will go down in the books as one of Table Mountain Cableway’s busiest months to date: 116 000 pairs of feet took to the summit of Cape Town’s beloved landmark. That’s pretty impressive when you consider that the Cableway reported just 6 000 visitors in December 1929, the year that it was first operational. Of course, here at Flow Communications, we get most of our kicks elsewhere – on the web, that is. Read more…
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Media release: Human Sciences Research Council – Strategic national health surveys hit the road
January 27, 2012
Two significant national surveys will be conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) this year. The principal investigators of both studies are Dr Olive Shisana, CEO of the HSRC, Professor Leickness Simbayi, Professor Demetré Labadarios and Professor Thomas Rehle. The team officially launched the start of the studies in Cape Town today and invited all households approached by the researchers to assist in answering the important questions posed during face-to-face interviews. Read more…
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Segway’s move, driven by Flow’s Reatile Tshikalange.
By Jay Caboz // January 27, 2012
Flow Communications is proud to welcome Segway South Africa, to its stable of clients. Segway’s refurbished website has been online for the past few months and to check up on its success I visited the site’s programmer Reatile Tshikalange to find out about the new features. Read more…
Social networking and your children – things you should know
By Tara Turkington and Laura Maggs // January 26, 2012
Social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, have changed the way we interact, source news, conduct business and express ourselves. People across the world and of all ages are using these platforms on a daily basis, and having access to your Facebook or Twitter account on your phone is, if anything, as trendy as it is convenient. Read more…
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Twitter tips that will take your tweets to new heights
By Laura Maggs // January 25, 2012
Are your tweets lacking verve? Are you struggling to accumulate followers? Not entirely sure what Twitter can really do for you? Here are five “twips” to help you tweet like a pro! Read more…
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Media training is for everyone
By Jay Caboz // January 23, 2012
For some of you, the thought of being interviewed by a member of the media is as intimidating as attempting to summit Mount Everest without a sherpa. Nor would you go off on the spur of the moment to do something as monumental as climb the highest mountain in the world. And even if you were fully prepared, you would still need a heap of confidence to take the first step. Read more…
Roshni to the rescue: a day in the life of a Flow project manager
By Laura Maggs // January 19, 2012
Roshni Nana must be the busiest person I have encountered.
I manage to nab her in the Flow kitchen and, over a Woolies strawberry yoghurt on one of her rare breaks, chat with her about her busy life as a Flowstar. Read more…
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The 2012 digital media race begins
By Jay Caboz // January 18, 2012
In 2011, Facebook officially overtook Google as the most visited site on the globe, with a whopping 50% of its 65-million active users accessing the site daily. Such statistics indicate that 2011 was a year that saw an explosion of social media formats.
What does this mean for the future in 2012?
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