Mandy de Waal speaks to The Internet & Social Media Guy, Andy Hadfield about online banking trends.
What's the biggest challenge facing banks in this country and the world over? Simplicity.
As the world and the internet become more compl...
Do you have faith in internet content? As search marketing soars, insidious content spammers are overwhelming and choking the net. Only a return to value will restore the balance.
I love Seth Godin. Who doesn’t?
The best-selling author and...
Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, you cannot possess power. Rather, it possesses you. Google would do well to understand this.
One of the more interesting people I've interviewed is a man called Ali Allawi. Based in London, Allawi has the look...
In a multi-platform world where the news waits for no man or network, traditional media would do well to heed the call of the Beowulf that would consume them.
When long time host of NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Tim Russert, collapsed and die...
Don't you love a creative business idea whose time has come? One that rewards local ingenuity, funky design and distributes wealth to smart people who are innovative and contribute to a community business model?
Springleap is an idea whose time ...
Context is a hell of a thing. That point was driven home to me today when Muti deleted a link without explaining how or why the post was deleted. A social book making site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans o...
Legend has it that Rafiq Phillips was born online. A self-styled search-engine and online marketing guru, Rafiq has been in the internet industry almost since it existed in South Africa. Known to his friends as Rafiki the web addict, he cannot su...
"No economy can grow by excluding any part of its people, and an economy that is not growing cannot integrate all of its citizens in a meaningful way." - from South Africa's black economic empowerment strategy document.
At the end of May I start...
I've been Twittering for a week now. You know. The micro--blogging site where you can follow (or listen to) friends and complete strangers, and they can follow (or listen to) you in return. Where you can snoop around to check out whether Matthew Buck...
Mandy de Waal is a columnist, writer and journalist. A former broadcast journalist, de Waal is writes for Noseweek, ITWeb, MarkLives, Brandchannel and MarkMagazine. She is part of the judging panel of the Discovery Health Journalism Awards and the MPASA PICA Awards. In her spare time she writes poetry and fiction.
Read her blog Artificial Intelligence: Articles, essays and riffs about new media, media, branding, economics and current events.
