Category: Online Social Networking

  • Who have you nominated for the SA Blog Awards 2008?

    You must be aware of the SA Blog awards by now, and that nominations have opened with a whole host of new categories being added to the 2008 edition.

    I wanted to be open and say I’ve placed some votes for 3 blog already. Firstly in the Best SA Blog about Technology / Computers / Web Development category I voted for Adii, our very own SA WordPress Rockstar and one of those bloggers who I learn quite alot from on a number of levels. Adii manages to keep a steady flow of writing going even though he seems to have a huge amount of work on WordPress development on his plate as well as a full time position. He does a fair amount of research when writing and his posts are always useful.

    In the Best Website Promoting Blogging category I’ve voted for Amatomu, who for me are the best aggregators of blog content out there. They’ve seen a fair amount of development and changes taking place on their site recently. I love the way they have created a competitive yet mature space for bloggers to have their writing blogs ranked. They provide some cool widgets as well like the rank widget which regularly gives me a sense of whether I’m keeping up or slipping up. When I haven’t blogged for a while I can tell by my site;’s traffic and my Amatomu ranking.

    My 3rd Vote went to SA Climate Crisis by Andre Bothma for the Best Green blog category. It’s a topic close to my heart and a subject I focus on regularly on nomad-one.com. I think Andre’s heading in a great direction. I’ve learnt a thing or 2 from his blog with regard to climate issues and think it’s a cause very much worth promoting. I haven’t seen many blogs of this nature locally and think it’s a space which needs much more conversation.

    if you haven’t voted yet I suggested you head on over and make yourself heard in support of SA Blogging. maybe sneak one in for nomad-one.com by clicking on my vote for me badge at the top of this page!

  • 1st WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Post Mortem

    After struggling to prevent a few business people from hijacking the session with their own off topic focus, not mentioning any names, we managed to get stuck in talking about a few pertinent issues.

    Callum explainaing a few things about migrating to wordpress

    Those who attended were:

    • Organiser, Callum Macdonald – Nomadic entrepreneur & web developer/blog master from Scotland
    • Marc Pelteret – Business Science / Computer Science Graduate with an interest in open source development
    • Christina de Silva, Online marketing strategist and wordpress enthusiast – AlterSage.com
    • Nada Jones, sales & biz development executive – Work Online Interactive
    • Chris – iMod
    • Rob Wilkonson – Butlers Pizza (Energy Crisis Maniac) 🙂
    • Will – 2oceansvibe.com
    • Grant – mobi me
    • Jamaal – Web Strategist at Jayz

    What was spoken about?

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  • SA Blog awards nominations to kick off soon – do I stand a chance?

    blogawardslogo Some of you might know that the South African Blog Awards group met to plan the event a few days ago at Cafe Neo in Mouille Point Cape Town. I tried to make it but missed the boat by about 30 minutes or so and caught Dave Duarte hanging around afterwards meeting with some people. A little disappointed I was.

    Amongst other things discussed at the meet were new rules and new categories for the competition. I wasn’t around for last year’s one as I wasn’t much of a blogger then and had no idea these initiatives even existed back then.

    The awards are the brainchild of the owners of two established South African blogs: Cherryflava and Your Group of Web AddiCT(s).
    found on gottaquirk.com

    What’s the SA Blog Awards All about then?

    In their own words:

    the SA blog awards showcase the very best of South African independent web publishing in various categories.

    My question to myself is, do I stand a chance of featuring anywhere in one of these Categories?

    I reckon I could take one of these Categories, Maybe:

    • Best Undiscovered Blog – if someone discovers how undiscovered I really am and how good I am at being undiscovered. 🙂
    • Best Post about the SA Blog Awards – If I actually put some real effort into writing one (hint – this post)
    • Best Green blog – with some CSS styling maybe
    • Best SA Blog about Design – Aha, now there’s a category, a difficult one to win though as writing about Design takes huge amounts of effort. I see this Category seems to be more about the actual design of the blog and not the content. Better keep at that re-design then.

    Think I can Make it? Or Maybe Not?

    If you think I stand a snowball chance why not Vote for me, or maybe just do so out of the kindness in your hearts. If you think I’m nowhere close, maybe give me some tips on how I can make a go at it.

    Tell me who your favourites are? I know Adii is probably going feature somewhere in there. I think Andre Bothma’s SA Climate Crisis is a good contender for the Green Category.

    I’m not shy about being an amateur, tell me what you think of me & my site and maybe you can help me improve.