CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Awards 2010, Uganda
By Tara Turkington // June 01, 2010
Last week, I travelled to Uganda for the first time, courtesy of MultiChoice Africa, to conduct media training for their country managers.
We were there over the weekend, and were privileged to be guests at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Awards, held at the luxurious Kampala Serena Hotel on Saturday, May 29.
The who’s who of African journalism were at the awards, which attracted more than 2 000 entries from 42 countries. We were very proud when a South African, e.tv’s Sam Rogers, won the overall award, African Journalist of the Year, for her TV piece on albinos in Tanzania who are literally hunted for their skin. In her acceptance speech, Rogers said that more than 50 albinos have been murdered in Tanzania in the past year, most of them by people seeking their body parts for muti. Hopefully, Rogers’ award will help to highlight and halt this horrific practice.
Read more…Kate Turkington inducted into MTN Radio Hall of Fame
By Miliswa Sitshwele // May 20, 2010
Before television and the internet, listening to the radio was an integral part of each household’s daily routine. Parents and children would gather around their radio to listen to soapies, the news or music.
Despite massive advancements in information and communication technologies, radio continues to enjoy widespread popularity and influence, though the format may have changed a little, with talk radio becoming particularly popular. Read more…
E-marketing for niche success
By Zintle Mtyeku // May 10, 2010
Electronic marketing, or e-marketing, refers to marketing activities conducted through using the internet and related tools.
There are many tools that can be used to create an effective e-marketing mix; these include blogs, websites, online social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, and e-newsletters. These tools are drastically changing the way people and businesses communicate. Read more…
How do you spell Eugene Terre’ Blanche?
By Aneshree Naidoo // April 28, 2010
The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (yes, the AWB) spells the name of its erstwhile head in all its accented glory, Eugène Terre’Blanche, but online news sites across the world have at least two other spellings of the infamous AWB leader’s name.
South Africa’s Mail & Guardian Online (www.mg.co.za) spells it as Eugene Terre’Blanche, along with News24 (www.news24.com) and Independent Online (www.iol.co.za).
However, the Times Online (www.thetimes.co.za) spells his name without the second accent, so Eugene Terre Blanche, but in at least one instance it is spelt Eugene Terreblanche. Read more…
How SEO is not changing journalism
By Richard Frank // January 27, 2010
In response to Roy’s blog post last week about how SEO is changing journalism, I’d like to offer another perspective.
Although journalists are now trying to bend their grammar and style to maximise the SEO potential of their posts, they shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the actual content matters.
Although short-term gains can be won by writing a clever, SEO-friendly title and first paragraph, the real gains come when people actually link to the content. And people only link to the content if they find it valuable and think that other people will find it valuable.
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Using Twitter as a social networking tool on your website
By Sarah Gurney // January 25, 2010
Twitter is a useful social networking tool that we often use to drive traffic to our websites, to run competitions and to build online communities in conjunction with other social networks such as Facebook and Flickr (a photo sharing network).
Twitter allows users, once they have created a profile, to post short messages of up to 140 characters to their followers. Cape Town Tourism in particular has used Twitter to great effect and currently has about 900 followers. Read more…
Using Mac OSX Screen Sharing
By Richard Frank // December 21, 2009
Often I need to share an idea or coding technique with my colleagues in our programming studio. In the past, this would mean everyone getting out of their seats and gathering around one machine. These days we’ve found a far more effective way of sharing ideas. Using the built-in Mac screen sharing tool, we all log in to one machine and run the tutorial/discussion from there.
If you have a Mac, this is how you do it: Read more…
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