http://www.jayz.co.za Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:57:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ownership is so last century. It's time to liberate ourselves and enjoy what technology affords us. In my opinion, we have two advantages which we should really be making use of. Firstly, we have the opportunity to be specialists. The time is over for generalists. We no longer want to ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/14/do-less-outsource-everything-else/ News giant Reuters has released a Social Media Policy and has even made it available online - you can read it here. Reuters is instructing it's journalists on how to manage Social Media interactions. There's a part of me that has empathy for them. The Social Media landscape can be ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/13/reuters-gets-constricted/ I'm a student of the world. Everywhere I go, I try to learn, and I try to think about what is really happening. Psychology is a subject that fascinates me, and I'm very fortunate that many of the successes and principles behind Web 2.0 and Social Media are grounded upon ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/12/the-amazing-race-facebook-and-twitter/ I wasn't going to write about this today, but Khalil Aleker's comment on Facebook (see image to the left) has spurred me on. Many people ask these type of questions, and they're valid. Are business cards still necessary? Are meetings still necessary? Are board rooms still necessary? Are books still ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/11/press-the-flesh/ Yesterday I tweeted the news of the newly opened Google Apps Marketplace, but I feel that I need to blog about this. This, I feel, is important for us all to understand, because the future of business and technology is being defined - and redefined - in and by online ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/11/apponomics/ It's impossible to be on Twitter or Facebook for 5 minutes without learning something new. People across the world are talking about all sorts of things, and providing useful links to pretty fantastic websites. This is occurring literally all day and all night, without exception. It's quite fascinating actually. General ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/11/ppc-balance-in-social-media/ "Get your head out of the clouds" is a famous saying that I'm sure we all know all too we ll. Having your head in the clouds was seen as a bad thing, when someone was daydreaming, etc. But, it's 2010. And I say: don't only get your head right ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/10/get-your-head-out-of-the-clouds-no-dont/ I firmly believe that there is more - MUCH more - good in the world than there is evil. If we want to, we will find goodness and pleasantness all around us, wherever we go. And the bad that we discover will not affect us in any major way. Yes, ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/10/are-you-a-mona-or-a-moaner/ If you know me personally you'll know that I'm not that much into sports. I played soccer in my pre-teen years, but not much thereafter. I enjoy watching a good game of soccer, tennis, and other sports - but that's only if I happen to come across it playing on ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/10/pick-up-a-jersey/ A few days ago a company rejected one of our proposals. It was quite a decent-sized project which we pitched for, and the rejection certainly came as a disappointment. In the past, a situation like this would be met with assumptions of why we did not get the work, and ... http://www.jayz.co.za/2010/03/09/explorin-rejection/