Got here bright and early and the mutterings around tea have all been positive after a jam packed first of the Kid and Teen Republic Conference. There were some really good talks yesterday regarding the tweens and kids market and today we're gearing up to hear some thought provoking material around teenagers in SA and how they deal with marketing material.

First up is the editor of Seventeen Magazine and it's sure to be an interesting preso because it's all around teen trends and the latest results that the magazine has released regarding teen use of technology and the 'buying influence they have over products.

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I've just been to the funniest art nouveau film I've watched in a long time. What made my movie-going experience that much better is that I received a valuable lesson on social media, which my simple night out with friends, a remarkable one.

Apart from getting to see friends I hadn't seen in a while, I watched "Be Kind Rewind", a comedy starring infamous funny man, Jack Black, Danny Glover and the muso, Mos Def. The cast, for me, stirred up a realistic portrayal of what I think people on the street see as communal interaction, but what we, in the web 2.0 space call "social media".

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RJ Benjamin is one of the many SA artists who are keen to explore the social media space, and in so doing, he has taken to claiming his own blog on MySpace.
I got the opportunity to interview SA's leading neo soul artist on his latest offering to the music world called, "Swimming in the soul of music".

Why the title, "Swimming in the soul of music"?

I came up with the title 2 years ago. It came when I found I had lost my way a little in my life & when that happens to me I tend to go back to my musical roots, that being soul music. I literally drowned myself in it & from that came the name, from the name came the music & a whole album!

How different is the new album to your first one, "who I am"?  read more here »

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This year will signal the next phase in social media development in South Africa with more enterprise companies playing in the space as well as the growth in open source development of enterprise 2.0 platforms, which will dominate the focus for the first quarter of 2008. A look at 2007's biggest trends reveals the key areas of development going forward into the new year.  read more here »

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This year saw two major developments in the South African music industry that has paved the wave for new and exciting methods of marketing an artist's album.

I'm a geek and as part of the movement in SA, I follow the 27Dinner event which happens bi-monthly in JHB and Cape Town. Upon following the feedback from one of the dinners held in CT, I stumbled onto Verity's webpage.

Now this woman is really unique and she's a very talented musician, but instead of selling the rights to her skill to a record label, she has decided to take matters into her own hands...  read more here »

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Stanford University plans to offers a course for students who are interested in building on the Facebook business model and especially those students who are keen to open up their own businesses.  read more here »

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I wrote a post for a blog that I'm guest writing on for Hollard South Africa, the insurance company, but I thought it is quite pertinent to share it on my social media space too :-)

You could call this your first instalment in social media knowledge sharing but I'd like to just start a conversation with you...

What do you consider important about a discussion with a friend or work colleague? You're probably have three things in common with the mental list a lot of people are now making about this subject, and it probably goes a little somthing like this: 1. it must be meaningful, 2. it must make sense and lastly, 3. it's even better when it is humorous.  read more here »

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