Archive for December, 2009

The Reconstructed and Mom 2.0 Graduation

Posted: 23rd December 2009 by Marlon in Uncategorized
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Today was another highlight for the Reconstructed Living Lab as we celebrated with our second group of graduates for The Reconstructed. We also had our first group of the Mom 2.0 programme graduating this year and what an exciting experience. After seeing how the lives of men and women were reconstructed over the past year, [...]

The image is an indication of the Red Community that offers support to thousands of people in the area of HIV/AIDS. The goal is to increase this number to 250,000 users by the end of February 2010.

It is that time of the year again where we will have 19 graduates of our Mom 2.0 and The Reconstructed programme graduating for completing the RLabs Social Media course. This has been an amazing year with men and women from the local community excelling and
using social media beyond all expectations. From blogging, social networking [...]

Mobility with Ferrari in 2010

Posted: 17th December 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, News
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Today we had a meeting with Hazal and Guillaume at RLabs about the Mulo project. This is an exciting new project that I will be involved in where we will be testing the first prototype of these Mulo solar powered vehicles. The vehicles have been designed in such a way to support mobility of goods [...]

The Science of ReTweets [Presentation]

Posted: 14th December 2009 by Marlon in Uncategorized, social media
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The Science Of ReTweets
View more presentations from Dan Zarrella.

Interesting presentation by Dan Zarella on how to get more tweets retweeted. This could be useful for non-profits to get more exposure via Twitter and traffic to their websites or online resources.

Mobile Counselling via the Holidays

Posted: 14th December 2009 by Marlon in Mobile
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This year will be the second year in a row that we will be pressing through to offer advice and support to people accross South Africa using mobile phones as the medium. During this time of the year we intend reaching thousands of people in need of support. The power of mobile phones allows us [...]

Social Media influence Buying Decisions

Posted: 12th December 2009 by Marlon in social media
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Over the past few years the growth of Social Media has grabbed the attention from communities all over the world. We’ve seen people talking about social networks (e.g. FaceBook etc.) in wealthy suburbs, businesses and Univeristies in South Africa as well as rural areas and communities where children are discussing the same technologies. The trend [...]

Preparing for 2010

Posted: 12th December 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, Uncategorized
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As 2009 is drawing to a close and with so many exciting stories to share and to be thankful for, we embarking on a number of exciting projects in the new year that will change the landscape of Technology in the Social and Business arena. Although more will be revealed closer to launch dates I [...]

Customers are the Brand

Posted: 3rd December 2009 by Marlon in Uncategorized
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Customers Are The Brand
View more presentations from Graham Brown.

Today the world is celebrating World AIDS Day and at RLabs we are doing our part to ensure a difference in the lives of people impacted by HIV and AIDS. Some of the projects the RLabs team had involvement with includes:

- Mobile Counselling with Cell Life and National AIDS Helpline
- Mobile HIV/AIDS Information Portal with [...]