Flow’s journey with Open Africa
By Palesa Motau // September 08, 2010
Flow Communications recently launched the website for Open Africa, a non-profit organisation that allows travellers to enjoy the enchanting beauty of its travel routes while increasing communities’ awareness of the environment and its value.
The huge employment deficit in South Africa, especially in the rural areas, spurred Open Africa to find a way to fuse the natural beauty that surrounds communities in the rural areas, the needs of the people who live in these communities and the life-changing experiences that travellers search for. Read more…
Flow launches SOS site
By Miliswa Sitshwele // September 08, 2010
Flow programmers, writers and designers came together to produce a website for Support our SABC (SOS), a coalition that is committed to, and campaigns for, public broadcasting in the public interest.
SOS is made up of organisations that fight for the rights of public broadcasters in South Africa and includes a broad range of non-governmental and charity-based organisations, trade unions and federations, and individuals, be they academics or activists, policy or legal consultants, actors or scriptwriters, filmmakers, producers, or directors. Read more…
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Cape Town Tourism nominated twice in SA blog awards
By Palesa Motau // September 07, 2010
Cape Town Tourism is a dual finalist in the 2010 South African Blog Awards with nominations in two categories: Best Travel Blog and Best Company Blog.
The nominations are for travel-related content and blogging by a corporate, small business or non-profit organisation. Read more…
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Flow moves ahead with International Aquarium Congress website
September 06, 2010
Two Oceans Aquarium, one of Flow’s newest clients, has won the bid to host the eighth International Aquarium Congress (IAC) in 2012. This prestigious congress, which takes place every four years, attracts key players worldwide from aquariums and from the field of aquatic animal husbandry.
Flow is now in the throes of developing the website for the 2012 IAC, a website that will combine great functionality – including in-depth information on Cape Town as the host city and South Africa as the host country – as well as a registration portal that will make bookings and uploading abstracts a breeze once these phases kick in. Read more…
I ♥ Cape Town Facebook page ranked third biggest in South Africa
By Palesa Motau // September 03, 2010
The I ♥ Cape Town Facebook fan page is officially the third biggest in South Africa with more than 118 000 fans according to Memeburn, a company specialising in website analysis. The website has seen phenomenal growth over the past month, growing by 18 000 fans during August 2010 from just over 100 000 Facebook fans at the start of the month. Read more…
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10 startup tips for success in media, marketing
By Tara Turkington // September 02, 2010
South Africa must be one of the few places in the world where you can start a company with zero capital and turn it into a success. But it’s going to take loads of hard work, a great sense of humour, and plenty of glasses half-filled with optimism.
I started Flow Communications in a small spare bedroom in my house five years ago and have learnt plenty along the way. Here are 10 tips from my experience. Read more…
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Putting years of theory into practice – Meet Janet Berger, Flow’s design studio manager
By Miliswa Sitshwele // August 30, 2010
When Janet was growing up she was torn between studying fine art, journalism and graphic design. Her desire to design as a means of communicating with many people, and an obsession with drawing ultimately won the day, and so she set out on the road to becoming a graphic designer.
After 25 years in teaching Janet decided it was time she took the theories she had gained over the years and put them into practice, so she joined Flow Communications.
She describes herself as married mother of two who has been in the design industry since her college days and who has taught and practiced design for the past 20-odd years.
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Flow welcomes Anko to learn about the world of work
By Terri "Anko" Modrakowski // August 26, 2010
26 August 2010 – Today Flow welcomed Terri Modrakowski to the team, albeit on a very short-term basis, to spend some time learning about the big, bad world of work. Terri, aka Anko, is a Grade 10 learner at Charter College in Honeydew who was tasked with notching up some work experience in her school holidays and then reporting back on her experiences and learnings. Here’s what she had to say: Read more…
Promoting Cape Town’s travel industry
By Roy Barford // August 25, 2010
Flow Communications sends out a monthly newsletter on behalf of Cape Town Tourism, which promotes Cape Town to the international travel industry.. The Top Tips for Travel Trade newsletter is one you should subscribe to if you are involved in inbound tours to Cape Town.
This newsletter is distributed to travel agents around the world and is aimed at assisting them in sourcing accommodation and activity ideas for their clients. In turn, this benefits the Cape Town travel industry.
The August newsletter was sent to nearly 900 subscribers and provided information about what to do in Cape Town during winter, as well as promoting various special offers available during the winter months.
Collective Cow: The new movers and shakers of collective buying in South Africa
By Zintle Mtyeku // August 25, 2010
If you’ve fended off eager shoppers at a Woolworths sale, or spent the night camping outside Computicket to buy tickets to see your favourite band, you would never have imagined that those same competitive crowds would one day help you to access the things you want at competitive prices.
The power of the collective is being harnessed online to drive discounted shopping, thanks to an exciting local intiative.
Collective Cow is South Africa’s answer to this fast-growing market for discounted collective buying. Inspired by international organisations such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Groupola, they secure the deals that South Africans want, affording access to products and experiences you can’t buy anywhere else.
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