Monique Theron sharing her story with Cosmopolitan. Watch her in March09 edition
Archive for November, 2008
Monique busy with Cosmo telephone interview
Posted: 29th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: DAS, media
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Skype and Fring with the Reconstructed
Posted: 29th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: reconstructed, Web 2.0
This morning we had our last session with the reconstructed team and we explored the use of Skype and Fring as a means of reconstructing lives. The technology is only the facilitator in this process and many of the team realised that having access to Skype allows them the opportunity to connect with many others [...]
DAS in the Weekend Post in Port Elizabeth
Posted: 29th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: DAS, media, reconstructed
The Reconstructed project and DAS appeared in the regional news paper, The Weekend Post, today. The wonderful article written by Yolande Hayward, can be read here
Networking and 27 Dinner in Port Elizabeth
Posted: 28th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: 27Dinner, Community in Tension (CiT), DAS, Web 2.0
I had a very exciting trip to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape to establish a network with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) for using technology for community empowerment. In collaboration with NMMU we hope to expand the DAS system in to Eastern Cape. Will keep you updated on its progress.
I was also invited [...]
Reconstructed Session: The Essence of Micro-Blogging
Posted: 24th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: micro-blogging, reconstructed, Web 2.0
Saturday morning we had an interesting session at CPUT with Rafiq and Gerhard who shared the essence of micro-blogging with the Reconstructed team. Rafiq stated that the following should be considered when using Micro-blogging tools such as twitter: Focus, Consistence, Looking Outward, Look within and Conversation. His slide show is available here. After exposing the [...]
Mom2.0: Cafe Session
Posted: 21st November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Mom 2.0, reconstructed
Today we had another interesting session with the ladies from the Mom2.0 project. The women are beginning to explore with social networking and especially doing well with the mobile phones. Seems as if many of them are very open to explore how they can use social media to help others.
Drug Advice Support using Technology
Posted: 20th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: DAS, drug counselling, mxit, Web 2.0
Today we had another successful session with DAS using MXit. In our two hour session we managed to get more than 1400 messages. The good news is that we are moving in the right direction with the development of the system as it seems to be more stable in recent sessions. We definitely excited of [...]
A Safer MXit: Parental Control of Chatrooms
Posted: 16th November 2008 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: communication, Community in Tension (CiT), media, mxit
With the increased concerns from parents around their children using .MXit and going into chatrooms. The initiative by MXit to disable public chat rooms has been welcomed by the public including Child Line. According to Herman Heunis, CEO, of MXit “The merits of this have been under discussion for a very long time and we [...]