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Sponsored: Businesses must seize the opportunity to improve environmental performance through IT

There has been no single approach to improving sustainability performance.

Advertising gets social

While Bafana Bafana flexes its football muscle on the field, many of the big brands have shifted the primetime advertising battlefield to the social media space.

Advertising

Russel Harris

Doing our bit

Social media and networking are making a difference in the fight against crime as arrests through portals such as eBlockwatch and Crime Line mount up.

Doing

Nicola Mawson

Make Marketing Fun

SOFTWARE - MARKETING APPLICATIONS Words: Carel Alberts GUERILLA TACTICS Consider the following dazzling statement from Entrepreneur magazine: “Marketing is made up of many, many, many things.

Make

Stay Sober When Social Networking

SOFTWARE Security NETWORKING Social networks are touted as circuit to be on if you want to get anywhere socially and in business.

Stay

Marian Shinn

THE ERA OF E-BANKING 2.0 DESCENDS

Web 2.

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ABSA

Wake up to social media

With most consumers experiencing life in a mobile or online matrix, it’s just dumb for brands to ignore social media.

Wake

Mandy de Waal

The network smartens up

The network is the centre of Social and economic activity Worldwide. How well are you Looking after yours?

THE

Samantha Perry

Social entrepreneur awards South Africa.

Chosen for “finding dynamic new solutions which are critically needed to improve the country’s problem solving capacity on key issues such as skills development and service delivery”, the finalists in the Social Entrepreneur Awards stand a chance to rub shoulders with world leaders at the next World Economic Forum in Davos.

Social

Sheryl Ozinsky

Economics ate the ecosystem

The tension between economic development and the environment has been there since the industrial revolution.

Economics

Steve Kretzmann

Social conscience

Worldwide investment in sustainable energy more than doubled over a twoyear period, from 2004 to 2006, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) 2008 year book, an annual overview of the changing global environment.

Social

Patrick Burnett

Left? what left?

Although Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is often held up as a paragon of left leadership by fans in South Africa, South Africa actually spends more on social services than its South American counterpart.

Left

Max Du Preez

Ethics online

Following MySpace, the exploding popularity of the online social networking site Facebook has highlighted the power of online networks based on user-generated content.

Ethics