Posts Tagged ‘Rafiq Phillips’

10/9/09

SMX East ’09 – New York

Being the in-house SEO & Web AddiCT within the SWAT team attending SMX East was a must. It was like the stars aligned when the topics presented in the various tracks fitted right into the types of companies within the Naspers Group. The only problem was that there was only one of me and 5 different tracks happening simultaneously. (more…)

07/6/09

The New Journalism

Rafiq Phillips and I attended an event where the winner of the Mxit PC Client competition was announced. The event was held in Stellenbosch, a beautiful university town in the Cape Winelands, and home to Mxit. But this post is not about the event itself – it is about the reporting of the event. (more…)

05/18/09

BarCamp Nigeria 2009

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. I attended Barcamp Nigeria on behalf of SWAT. (more…)