by hashtagsouthafrica | Feb 29, 2016 | Digital Revolution, Digital World, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media Awareness, Social Media Marketing
This past week was Social Media Week around key locations around the world. You might find this quite insightful as we did Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube all seem poised for an important year of growth and change. When Facebook bought Instagram in 2012, there...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Feb 29, 2016 | Instagram, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
Two major updates to Instagram that will help connect community to the world as it happens: the all-new Explore page, with trending Tags and Places, and more powerful search that makes it easier to find the people, places, and tags you’re looking for. With more than...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Oct 23, 2015 | Fees Must Fall
A National Business Institution Statement to Fees Must Fall Protests SACCI Media Release Friday, 23 October 2015 INCREASES IN UNIVERSITY FEES In a statement issued today, the President of the South African chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI), Mr Vusi Khumalo,...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Aug 3, 2015 | Digital World, Social Media Awareness, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twitter and Facebook – and the so-called disappearing messengers – like Snapchat –...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 24, 2015 | South Africa
I had the great opportunity to attend ICANN47 in Durban two years ago. The Global Audience expanded my understanding of the Internet as I knew it. What is ICANN ? ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 18, 2015 | Digital World, South Africa
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1998–2000, during which stock markets in industrialised nations saw their equity value rise sharply from growth in the more recent Internet sector and related technology fields. A combination of rapidly...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 11, 2015 | Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is already making inroads in several industries, including healthcare. A session at Augmented World Expo 2015 highlighted six of them. Image: Erin Carson/TechRepublic “[Healthcare is] one of the most important and practical applications of AR...
