Pleiades Media in association with Mike Saunders are proud to invite you to a string of social media presentations that focus on building strategic social media communication platforms for business. According to the Friendship 2.0 report published by MWEB, Social Media has become the main reason that South Africans access the internet. These people have [...]

Twitter recently launched Twitter Places, a technology that allows users to tell Twitter where they are in the world. The benefit for the user is simple. Their tweet now has more context. From twitter: When turning to Twitter to keep up with the current world cup soccer game, it helps to know where a Tweet [...]

Over the past few months The South African Presidency have been speaking about improving their communications to the South African public by getting involved in social media. In fact, I found out over twitter that this was a topic of conversation on 5fm a few days ago. I can confirm all the hype now after [...]

Halo Communications are proud to present the latest presentation from Mike Saunders Consulting. Mike Saunders is an experienced Social Media Coach and Internet Strategist who will presenting “Social Media Bootcamp” a half day presentation on social media marketing strategy. The course will cover: An overview of Web 2.0 Marketing strategy with social media Advertising online [...]

I spent last week in Johannesburg and had a chance to chat to Barry Bramley about social media in South Africa. Barry has since put our conversation down on a podcast which captures a few clear points about social media. Bearing in mind alot of the content here is just my opinion but we looked [...]

Steve Wirth is a full time missionary with Youth With A Mission based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is involved with the training, equipping and ministry in the area of Prayer, Intercession and Worship and is also a huge fan of coffee and a song writer and poet. In essence Steve is a non [...]

I am a fan of focus! It always gives you a better return for the same effort. Social media is no different. When looking at Facebook and Twitter most people know that you can link Twitter and Facebook so that you only update one and the other updates automatically. I have warned people about linking [...]

Halo Communications are proud to present the latest presentation from Mike Saunders Consulting. Mike Saunders is an experienced Social Media Coach and Internet Strategist who will presenting “Social Media Bootcamp” a half day presentation on social media marketing strategy. The course will cover: An overview of Web 2.0 Marketing strategy with social media Advertising online [...]

Everyone is talking about the privacy rights of Facebook at the moment but a very interesting statement was made by Mark  Zukerberg in a recent interview: Let me paint the two scenarios for you. They correspond to two companies in the Valley. It’s not completely this extreme, but they are on different sides of the [...]

A good internet marketing strategy will include these five fundamental elements: Marketing Research Marketing research needs to take place before the campaign begins and continuously thoughout the campaign activation process. If the correct metrics are not in place you are in danger of creating the wrong kind of return. Even worse, you may not generate [...]