Is Facebook Organic Reach Dead?

by hashtagsouthafrica | Jan 24, 2014 | Social Media Awareness, Social Media Marketing, South Africa

  Have you noticed your Facebook organic reach is down recently? Are you finding that only a fraction of your fans seeing posts without the use of ads? If you haven’t noticed your Facebook organic reach dropping like a lead balloon, you either haven’t been paying...

Good luck to Four Corners at the 86th Academy Awards

by hashtagsouthafrica | Jan 10, 2014 | Entertainment, South Africa

Directed by Ian Gabriel South Africa’s Official Selection, Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards Official Nomination, Best International Film 2014 IPA Satellite Awards Four lives will change forever as the destinies of a reformed prison general,...

Five Unwritten Twitter-for-Business Rules for 2014

by hashtagsouthafrica | Jan 8, 2014 | Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy, South Africa, Twitter

1. Refrain from using the brand profile to Tweet personal updates. Use your personal profile for that – or better yet, your personal Facebook profile with relevant privacy settings in place. Don’t share news about your favourite sports team or your son’s first word,...

Jobs which didn’t exists 5 years ago

by hashtagsouthafrica | Jan 7, 2014 | Linkedin, Social Media Strategy, South Africa

The world is consistently changing faster than every before. Everything we once learned in school and varsity has now become void in many areas unless you saving lives and need to transplant a heart. The beauty of Social Media is that we have gained insights to great...

Monthly Innovation – Wired Magazine

by hashtagsouthafrica | Dec 21, 2013 | Social Media Publication, South Africa

Over the past 4 years I have made a conscious decision, to purchase Wired Magazine – i often find it difficult relating conversations of innovation in South African general watering holes. It seems talk of future tech is strange to the masses. This all is well,...

Social Media is not just for your IT and Marketing Department

by hashtagsouthafrica | Sep 28, 2013 | Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy, South Africa

Since joining the digital era  and having plugged myself into the world wide web (www) I have observed that IT people can get lost in binary codes. They –succeed in giving us tech support and solving our daily email glitches but generally neglect communicating...

Drawing up a Social Media Strategy is Essential

by hashtagsouthafrica | Sep 28, 2013 | Social Media Strategy

When I first started out in Social Media for Businesses I would just spend the first few minutes looking for images online, think of a great quote add a company logo and upload. I would tweet as thoughts came to me which would be in bursts of messages at various...