How to customise Facebook pages

18 July 2011

Facebook pages are being used by a wide variety of business and interest groups. I’m not suggesting that they are appropriate for all businesses, but I think the social component has interesting applications for the likes of restaurants and entertainment venues. And, apart from the usual ‘Wall’ functions, one can add additional tabs to Facebook [...]

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Is Democracy Making the Credit Crunch Worse?

16 July 2011

I’ve never been a believer in ‘hair of the dog’ solutions to hangovers. The reason you feel terrible is because your body has a toxic level of alcohol, on top of which you are sleep and nutrient deprived. And you’re also likely to be dehydrated. In my view, rest, vitamins and a toasted egg and [...]

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Perfect Tweeting

30 June 2011

I’ve become a little bit addicted to Quora, which in their words is “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.” You [...]

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An Open Letter to the MyGate MD

15 June 2011

Dear Dan I hope you don’t mind me calling you Dan. I know that’s your name because I asked your employees the name of MyGate’s managing director. I left several messages for you to call me, but perhaps your telephone lines are down, the way that your computers so often seem to be. By the [...]

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Are We There Yet?

28 May 2011

I love a road trip. Actually, I should be more precise, I love a road trip that includes the Karoo. For those of you from elsewhere in the world, the Karoo is the semi-arid interior of South Africa. Let’s just say it’s not densely populated, but for me isolation is one of its attractions. I [...]

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A Moment of Madness

28 May 2011

In a sense, my life has been lived as a cycle of passions (some would say obsessions) that remain interests as the passion cools. Until my mid-twenties it was horse racing and breeding; don’t be fooled, though, by my apparent youth when I made the transition to wine. By the time I was ten years [...]

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Grazie, Graze

2 May 2011

Graze, in Stanford’s main road, is a fabulous little eatery, overflowing with character in a way that makes you want to eat the entire menu. I was there for lunch after a little mountain bike ride, hence my interest in eating was even greater. As you can see from the picture above, the menu is [...]

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The Eden Minstrels

2 May 2011

At the Olive Festival in Prince Albert, I used my iPhone to record this local band playing an Afrikaans favourite. The performance isn’t going to win any talent contests, but it’s a very real and typical part of local culture. What’s not to love about a bunch of guys with this much character in their [...]

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Planet Restaurant

29 April 2011

As a young adult, the Grill Room at the Mount Nelson Hotel was high on my list of special occasion outings. With jazzy-type live music (and mini dance floor), plush banquettes and dark wood it pressed all the right buttons. Most of what happens at the Mount Nelson has remained pretty much the same as [...]

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Vengeful Customers

22 April 2011

As a marketer, it is my job to tune into consumer behaviour, whether the purchase is happening online, or in a traditional face-to-face transaction. Through my connection with Dish Food & Social I get another angle on customer interactions, generally in the form of people who have been unhappy with the meal that’s been served [...]

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