Web designer in the making – John Kazembe
By Miliswa Sitshwele // July 02, 2010
Flow Communications is a company that prides itself on being reliable, creative, transparent and passionate about its people. We mean it when we say “our people are our most important asset”.
John Kazembe, Flow’s gardener, is growing things other than the flowers and plants in our Joburg garden – his skills.
Mike Thiel, Flow CEO Tara Turkington’s husband, knew John through his family’s involvement in the Dominican Convent School, where he is the principal, and quickly spotted his potential. Read more…
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Much like life, Clarens is what you make of it
By Christine Marot // July 01, 2010
The quaint town of Clarens huddles in a shallow Free State bowl, surrounded by sandstone cliffs painted gold every morning by the sun.
Referred to by locals as the Jewel of the Free State, Clarens is a shoppers’ delight, with legendary art and craft to be found within walking distance wherever you are in the town, along narrow lanes crowded by small shops that flank a grassy town square. Read more…
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YouTube: Ways for marketing managers to speak up in the social media forum
By Zintle Mtyeku // June 30, 2010
If you believe that YouTube is a site for flagrant self-promotion, or just a platform for people to upload silly videos, then read on. You might just be missing out.
Flow’s CEO, Tara Turkington, an enthusiast of this key player in the social media and networking circle, explains, “YouTube is an exciting platform to share content. It is the second biggest search engine in the world after Google. Any organisation serious about playing in the social media space should be finding ways to exploit YouTube’s services.” Read more…
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Caves of the Ape-Men book launched
By Itumeleng Makgobathe // June 28, 2010
On June 26, 2010, the Caves of the Ape-Men coffee-table book, by Professor Ron Clarke, the late Professor Tim Partridge and Dr Kathleen Kuman and published by S.E. Publications, was officially launched at the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg.
The book is a seminal work, and is the first of its kind to explore in detail the fossil and archaeological wealth of the Unesco Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Read more…
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Flow lands contract with South Africa Tourism
By Christine Marot // June 28, 2010
Flow is thrilled to have secured a three-year content development contract with South Africa Tourism.
Flow will be responsible for writing and sub-editing content on three provinces: KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Western Cape.
“We’ve always wanted to work with SA Tourism, so we put a lot of effort and long hours into preparing our tender, which makes the positive outcome doubly rewarding for us,” says Flow CEO Tara Turkington.
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FNB Commercial’s Supa Soccer a football first for Flow
By Jade Archer // June 25, 2010
Flow Communications with FNB Commercial have been running an exciting 2010 FIFA World Cup™ competition that aims to get FNB Commercial staff involved in the prestigious soccer tournament.
As one of the national sponsors of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, FNB Commercial’s marketing department wanted to build enthusiasm among their 2 400 staff members in the run-up to the tournament. While playing with the idea of the beautiful game, FNB’s Supa Soccer was born. Read more…
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A 15-minute breakdown of Flickr
By Zintle Mtyeku // June 24, 2010
The internet is an ever-changing source of information and forum for communication. With consumer needs and wants shifting along with it, photography too has had to adapt to the ways of the digital world.
Flickr is Yahoo!’s response to this change. The application allows people from any corner of the globe to upload, store and share images of their travels, talents and memorable moments. So forget all of your scrapbooking costs, the messy clean-ups and large amounts of time spent. Read more…
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Taking a voyage of discovery beyond Cape Town
By Christine Marot // June 23, 2010
Thanks to a collaboration between Flow’s largest client, Cape Town Tourism, and Cape Town Routes Unlimited, to share their website content and links, Flow landed an exciting project called Beyond Cape Town.
As the name indicates, this was an opportunity to develop website content on the many small, yet fascinating places that fall outside of greater Cape Town. Read more…
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Devil’s Pique: English is more exception than rule
By Judith Browne // June 22, 2010
The English language is a barbarous one, known for plundering other tongues, rich for all its greed. It is precisely this that has made it so adaptable to local cultural and linguistic peculiarities. It’s also what makes the language so damnable, having more exceptions than rules.
Let me develop on some of my daily dichotomies as a sub-editor at Flow.
The Associated Press Stylebook (a sub-editor’s bible) would have me italicise all non-English words, except where they have become sufficiently anglicised. “Café” would be a case in point. Read more…
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Flow welcomes Dimitri and George to the family
By Juliet King // June 21, 2010
We’re just over half-way through the month, but June has already heralded a great deal of excitement at Flow. From the kick off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ to the first session of Flow School, things have certainly been busy here at 7 Douglas Street. But we’ve been more than managing with the increased load, thanks to new Flowstars, Dimitri Kouvdis and George Xafis.
Dimitri, who graduated from the University of Johannesburg with a BTech Multimedia, joined Flow’s programming studio earlier this month and has been an invaluable addition to the team. Read more…
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