Last night we were privileged to witness our old buddy Dave Duarte share some views, thoughts and ideas on Social Media in South Africa.

We outgrew the World Wide Creative studio for this session, which was held at a new venue after a huge increase of interest over the past 2 months. It was a great success, with Hatfields Restaurant in Gardens providing us with a perfect balance of privacy, space and good service (with Alison and Colin doing a sterling job of looking after us – thanks guys!)

We will be sharing some video footage of the event in a short while, but here are some snaps in the meantime…

Dave Duarte

Above: Dave pouring scorn on a stupid question.

heavy chef presentation

Above: a riveted audience, including Andrea Broome and Bruce Snaddon from Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Shane Dryden from Yuppiechef.co.za; Patrick from Justtheplanet.com; Chris Beech (Flash programmer supremo); Rob Maconochie (the sms marketing guru) and Gavin Mandel (the mobile marketing guru) from Channel Mobile; Kent from IT Direct.

Heavy chef guests

Above: more riveted and engaged audience, with Rowan filming diligently in the background.

Heavy chef guests

Above: …and more riveted audience, struggling to stop themselves rushing the stage. By now, Dave’s rugged good looks, rapier wit and manly intellect was causing problems.

heavy chef Mike

Above: we sent in Mike to cool things down. Thanks Mike.

Dave Duarte

Above: Things were back to normal after that.

Dave Duarte

Above: Dave showed us a great example of integration of traditional media and social media with the Peugeot 107 campaign – which you can view here.

Kent

Above: Kent from IT Direct, loving it.

Rob and Diana

Above: Mike telling the one about the Mexican, the Iranian and the Venezuelan to Rob and Diana Rankin (from HRadvice.co.za)

Elaine UCT

Above: Elaine from UCT GSB, swapping war stories with Bruce and Andrea from CPUT’s graphic design faculty.

Thanks to all who contributed to the evening, including Rowan, World Wide Creative’s legendary studio manager who did much of the behind the scenes stuff to make it happen. A huge thanks, once again, to the legendary Mr Duarte, for providing us with some meaty marketing fare. See you soon, Dave!

P.S. Don’t forget the next Session with Phil Barrett (from Flow Interactive), who will be talking all about usability on websites. Not one to miss, see you there! Email us if you’d like to attend.

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Fred is the CEO of digital marketing agency World Wide Creative. Fred co-founded The Heavy Chef Project, as well as Ideate, a forum for African entrepreneurs. Fred focuses on online brand building, marketing strategy and loud Hawaiian shirts. Fred is famous for his sartorial excellence, long diatribes about music and fanatical attention to detail when making pizza. Follow Fred on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Fred_Roed

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