You may be using social media personally or organisationally. You will need a purpose and strategy for using social media effectively. These infographics help you with some key guidelines.

As the internet connectivity increases in South Africa, new services become available. This new Cape Town based company produced a box that streams internet channels to the TV for facilitate viewing online video more easily. Will the newly increased bandwidth be swollowed up by many people streaming video, or wil the internet bandwidth just continue increasing to cope with the growing digital demand? What do you expect will happen?

Media is everywhere - and everything is becoming mediatised!

What role can people of faith play amidst all this media?
The Lausanne Media Engagement Network is providing resources for helping people to engage with the media.

From my background in media I would be biased to say that media is a primary influencer of our future. Thus I was intrigued to read Buhle’s article claiming that families could be shaping the future society more than the media!

So could the future of the world around us be significantly be shaped by our intentional way of living? Going beyond the norm and living a life that is innovative, collaborative, strategic, visionary, impactful, and maybe even futuristic? Hopefully – maybe – such lives could become so provocative to communities that even the media might listen up… and actually report about such inspirational individuals, families and communities!

When people in Africa communicate, the relationships are of utmost importance. Social media is becoming an increasingly valuable tool to nurture these relationships, from the village, city and country level all the way to the global scale.

Relationships are most precious to us as humans, especially when everything else is lost. The flood of refugees into Europe is using smartphones not only to orient themselves, but especially to keep in touch with loved ones. The help provided nowadays is also very different than in previous years: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has distributed 33,000 SIM cards to Syrian refugees in Jordan and 85,704 solar lanterns that can also be used to charge cellphones!

Could these smart windows of the future begin to form our "augmented reality" around us?

High speed 4G mobile networks could transform the way people in Africa communicate, live and work - as long as affordable handsets and reasonably priced data packages become available simultaneously. But can these new mobile networks be set up in such a way that much of the revenue actually stays within the African communities, or would this industry grow into a new phase of collonialism where most of the income generated through the mobile platforms is syphoned out of Africa into the developed countries?

This is so true in this blog entry: “posting with higher frequency does not result in more success, but rather posting engaging content that your fans will interact with and find value.”