The difference between leadership and mere management often boils down to just one thing: vision. People follow leaders because they are able to paint a picture of a future that is so desirable that it inspires people to do what they ordinarily would...
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the east coast of the US, had 20 times more deaf inhabitants for its population size than the rest of the country. But the islanders didn't consider this hereditary deaf...
Being a communicator and debating knowledge is probably a central (and mostly subconscious) concern of most skills and traits. Sadly though, it seems that the skill of interpersonal communication or facilitating the "sympathetic meeting of minds" is ...
We come out of a tradition of Enterprise 1.0, these days sometimes known as “old-school business”. Then the focus shifted to social networks and Enterprise 2.0 was born. Now people are talking about Enterprise 3.0, which includes Software-as-a-Se...
The web is not about technology, it’s about communication. Yet, in the ultimate schema of things, it becomes evident to the end-user only via HTML and clever client-side jinks. Despite our clever plans, middleware, and thousands of hours of social ...
Apple has established itself on a very premium platform -- all style, design and brilliant functionality. After the iPod, the brand image has hardly seen even the slightest decline in its brand equity. The launch of the iPhone and the Macbook Air, ...
I had an interesting encounter with a car guard this weekend. This experience made me realise how much I take for granted and how the little things we do in life can have the most profound consequences for people and sometimes for our environment as ...
The social networking space is reminiscent of a gold rush right now. Facebook, MySpace and Google all want to stake their claim in the ground. They claim they are "open" and they allow you to port your data, but they are still clutching at our identi...
Many people involved in the South African (and global) social media industry will agree that, if anything, these past few years have taught us a lot about web-based content and copywriting, online communities and networks, and marketing and communica...
As a socially conscious, free-thinking African with a will to do good and a keen interest in technology, I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the issue commonly called the digital divide.
Simply put, it connotes the perceived differenc...
