Breast Cancer Awareness Month Fundraiser Event

by Ramon Thomas in Events on 0909/101010/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment • , , ,

Learn the Secrets about Cancer the Pharmaceutical Industry does Not want You to Know About

Join me for an informative and entertaining video screening at the Preview Theatre. I will be screening two interviews from Conscious Media Network to raise awareness on Cancer and raise funds for Women of Vision.

You will learn about alternative treatments for cancer from two world-reknown experts. You will also receive copies of these interviews on DVD to share as widely as possible at your own discretion. The money raised at this event will go toward Women of Vision, a charity that helps abused women and children. Sophie Okeke, founder of Women of Vision, will be the guest of honour.

You will receive a glass of champagne on arrival.

The 1st interview is with Dr. Lorraine Day, an internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best selling author who was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert.

We will break for 20 minutes to enjoy tea and coffee before we continue…

The 2nd interview is with Burton Goldberg, the publisher of a series of books on alternative medicine. He has spent over 30 years carefully researching every aspect of holistic medicine, from California to Israel, Mexico to Russia. But it?s taken only a few years for this self-made businessman to emerge as ?The Voice of Alternative Medicine.?

The venue for this event is The Preview Theatre, run by Italo Bernicchi, who managed the Victory Theatre in Orange Grove for 35 years. Parking is outside his house and champagne will be served on arrival in the beautiful rose garden. Call Italo on 011 640 1061 for directions.

EVENT DETAILS

  • Cost: R40 pp, 2 tickets R60 or 4 tickets for R100
  • Date: Saturday, 20 October 2007
  • Time: 4h30 for 5pm (duration 2 hours)

It’s easy to book for this event: Call Mandy on 076 890-8687.

Calling for a Business Blogging Conference in South Africa

by Ramon Thomas in Blogging/Business on 0808/101010/2007200720072007 • 4 Comments • ,

Early in September I was a speaker at the 2nd Digital Citizens Indaba. Last year this conference was immensily valuable to me because it presented an opportunity to meet many of my fellow bloggers from across the African content. This year for me I realised the greater need to teach people how to use blogging to generate income. In 2006 I spent many, many hours discussing this with Emeka Okafor, before he was selected by TED to host the first TEDAfrica conference, which may turn out to become an annual conference.

So this year I spoke with Mathew Buckland and Laurien Clemence on spoke on the Marketing & Moneytizing panel. The problem with DCI is that the bulk of discussion is about online activism and citizen jouranlism. This is not a conference about serious business blogging. So I’m making this public call for a conference that would focus on business blogging. This conference would propel blogging to a new stratosphere in South Africa and Africa as a whole. TEDGlobal’s Fellow’s who included many, many bloggers are a testament to the value we can add to business. Such a conference would appeal to large corporates to introduce them to social media, and web 2.0 business strategies, which will be an imperative by 2010.

My dream panel of speakers would include the following Technorati 100 heavy weights:

  1. Darren Rowse
  2. Steve Pavlina
  3. Guy Kawasaki
  4. Seth Godin
  5. Michael Arrington
  6. Robert Scoble
  7. Brian Clark
  8. Steve Rubel
  9. Jeniffer Jones
  10. Leonard Brody (I already know him personally)

I’m looking at doing this during September/October 2008. It would take 4/6 months to secure sponsorships for this event. And another 6 moths to do all the planning and organising with sufficient marketing and public relations building up to the event. These two activities can run in concurrently to some extent.

Who’s your international business blogger of choice for this conference? And how can you help me organise this conference? Post your feedback or contact me privately.

David Deida on Sexual Yoga – Function, Form and Glow

by Ramon Thomas in Sex/Video on 0404/101010/2007200720072007 • No Comments • ,

David Deida is one of the most enlightened teachers alive today. He is truly a master of his craft. And his book, The Way of the Superior Man, has changed my life forever.

Deida focuses on his theories about the different ways that men and women grow emotionally and sexually.In this short video clip David talks about the difference between sexual therapy, sexual yoga and sexual spirituality practise.

Are you being held hostage by your hosting company?

by Ramon Thomas in Internet on 0101/101010/2007200720072007 • No Comments • , , ,

Last week I had a small crises when my hosting company disabled this website and several others due to a PHP error on the server. I had been travelling and missed several emails they sent me warning me to take action and resolve this problem, which on the shared hosting platform was causing problems for everyone else. This whole episode reminded me of a lesson I learnt from Tony Roocroft about 3 years ago.

The basic lesson was never to host your website with the same company who controls your domain. I took it very seriously and always started using Godaddy for registering all my .com domains while in South Africa I registered my co.za domains directly with Uniforum. However, I have realised even hosting all my domains with one company is still a weakness because all websites are impacted being hosted under one account. So I’ve moved my personal blog to PowWeb. I may move some more domains to them to share my risk. And I advice you to consider this situation if you are heavily investing in your online business. There are many different hosting providers. There are several comparison websites available like Top 10 Independent Website Reviews website. And if you insist on hosting in South Africa one of the best ones are Hertzner and Afrihost. Avoid MWEB and Telkom Internet as these hosting solutions are either very expensive or severely limited.

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