Meet Flow’s PR Guru: Bafana Sibiya
By Miliswa Sitshwele // June 21, 2011
Bafana Sibiya and I meet in Flow’s garden on the day of our interview. As we contemplate where to sit, he pulls out a chair for me and says, “Let’s do this.”
Bafana is the senior accounts manager at Flow Communications’ sister company Flow PR. He is responsible for the day to day running of client accounts and he is also involved in reputation management. These clients include the Catholic Institute of Education, Legae Security and the Gauteng Sports Awards.
He holds a National Diploma in International Relations from the former Technikon Pretoria. Read more…
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Flow trains frontline staff
By Miliswa Sitshwele // May 03, 2011
In an effort to improve interaction with our clients, instil confidence in our staff and give them lifelong skills, we recently took our frontline staff to a half-day seminar on effective telephone handling. Read more…
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Flow goes with the flow at TEDxCapeTown 2011: Be water my friend
By Ingrid Sinclair // April 18, 2011
On Saturday, April 16, Flow Cape Town General Manager Bronwen D’Oliveira and I were privileged to attend the first-ever TEDxCapeTown event. The event was attended by the Mother City’s most curious and deep-thinking people who possess an innate love for technology, design and entertainment, the three words that make up the acronym TED. Read more…
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Flow welcomes sub-editor Linda Piegl
By Matt van Onselen // April 07, 2011
Linda Piegl joined Flow in February, adding her sub-editing skills to the Jo’burg writing studio.
She says she had come across Flow’s name some time ago, and she couldn’t believe her luck when she got an interview a few months later. Read more…
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Flowstar tries out for Idols
By Miliswa Sitshwele // April 04, 2011
So last Saturday I woke up ngenji xukuxa (when a dog brushes its teeth) as they would say in my language, which just means very early and made my way to Montecasino for the final round of the Idols auditions, yep Idols! Read more…
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Cake time on April Fool’s
By Miliswa Sitshwele // April 01, 2011
One of Flow’s fabulous traditions is buying staff cake for their birthday. For many years, birthday people have been surprised when walking into the kitchen to have their colleagues breaking into happy birthday song, doing a drum roll on the kitchen table and giving them presents. Read more…
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Double trouble at Flow Johannesburg
By Flow Communications // March 17, 2011
This month, Flow added two more journalists to its writing staff. Stuart Dickinson and Matt van Onselen are both Joburg born and bred, and share a passion for writing, music and philosophy. Read more…
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Flow welcomes a new design studio manager
By Miliswa Sitshwele // February 08, 2011
Tina joined the Flow team on 3 January, 2011 with a fine pedigree. Prior to this, Tina, who holds a diploma in graphic design from Vaal University of Technology, worked as a creative director at communications and design company Studio 5. Read more…
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My journey with Flow Communications
By Miliswa Sitshwele // February 04, 2011
Today I celebrate three years at Flow Communications! I should be a fossil and have my picture next to the skull of Mrs Ples and Harry the Hominid. Read more…
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Going with the Flow: Kate Rau
By Miliswa Sitshwele // December 21, 2010
When Kate Rau and I go to the garden for the interview that will ultimately inform this blog, she sits down comfortably on the grass and says, “Let’s do this, skattie.”
And so our interview begins.
Kate is the most recent, most bubbly addition to Flow’s writing team, joining the company in late November as a media developer. Read more…
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