Optimise your website to increase your conversion rate by Linda Jooste19 November 2012 1 Comments
A conversion can mean different things on different types of websites. An e-commerce website conversion is a sale, a travel site a booking, other sites a subscriber, and another contact details as a lead conversion. It all depends on the type of business being conducted via that website.
Tourism Industry getting to grips with Social Media technology by Linda Jooste28 September 2012 2 Comments
This year was the 5th annual E-Tourism Event in Cape Town, an event that brings hundreds of destinations and travel suppliers, members of the hospitality industry, and others of the thriving tourism sector in South Africa, together to discuss technology and tourism. The major focus of this year’s event was to educate how social media is used to leverage online bookings; and also for those in the industry to sample the latest online and mobile technology available. Five years ago the panel of speakers were urging these same collectives just to get their businesses online.
Real Time Wine pops the cork on new retail mobile App by Wesley Lynch17 July 2012 0 Comments
As a member of Angelhub I recently had the opportunity to be on the advisory board of judges of the 2011 Tech4Africa Samsung Apps Ignite. This event is aimed at giving start-up businesses the exposure and chance to pitch their product or demo to an audience of techy users, investors, customers and journalists, in the hope of creating traction and sparking potential funding. Andy Hadfield, founder of Real Time Wines, with his retail mobile app for reviewing wines came first place – awarding his business start-up $5000.
Van Schaik eBooks Conference by Simon Bestbier11 July 2012 0 Comments
This year’s Van Schaik eBook conference was held on the 10 May 2012 at the incredible La Bella Vita Wine Estate in Paarl. The topic for the day was ‘eTextbooks: Tools of change for the digital migrant teaching the digital native.’
Launch of the new version of Adobe Creative Suite 6 by Elena Dotcheva05 July 2012 0 Comments
To celebrate the momentous launch of their newest version of the Creative Suite, the Adobe team travelled the world spreading the news and demoing the improvements and new additions in their Web Tour. I was fortunate enough to catch the Cape Town launch at the Convention Centre on the 21st of June, my chance to witness firsthand the inner workings of the new improved software.
