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Come on now... be honest - what do you really think of Bizcommunity.com? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What could we do better? We are inviting you, our valued subscribers and readers, to give us your bouquets and brickbats because we want to improve our service and our offering to you.

Bizcommunity....com is launching a Reader Survey to find out more about what you think of us. Completing the survey won't take you very long; no more than a few minutes, in fact. What's even better, is that once you have completed it, you receive three free gifts - and you'll get that even if you say really nasty things about us.

So go to http://marketing.bizcommunity.com/Reader_Survey.html and tell us exactly what you think of our portals - Marketing, Africa, Retail and Medical.

The result will be worth it, we promise; not only will you help us further improve the quality and value of bizcommunity.com to you, you will also receive three free gifts.

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Live blogging from the D&AD Awards in London tonight!

Tonight, Thursday, 15 May 2008, is the night! Creative minds everywhere are now spinning in anticipation of clutching that Black or Yellow Pencil in their sweaty palms and glowing with pride in front of the 1800 guests expected at the upcoming D&AD awards ceremony an...d Bizcommunity.com will be there in London, courtesy of our latest guest blogger, designer Mark Forrester, who will be blogging live from Royal Festival Hall.

For more, go to http://blog.bizcommunity.com/index.php/2008/05/15/dad-live-blogging-from-dad-awards-tonight/Read More

Special reader discount for Media Forum extended

The organisers of the International Media Forum, running 21 - 22 May 2008, have extended its 15% discount for Bizcommunity.com readers who book before 20 May - a saving of over R1500 per ticket. International editors of top world media and some of the world's most experie...nced communicators and brand builders are in the powerful lineup of speakers for this important forum, including: The Economist, BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Aljazeera, CNN, CNBC, Financial Times, Reuters, Hindustan Times, as well as communications experts from Virgin, Germany Land of Ideas and World Editors Forum. For more information and to book now, go to http://www.internationalmediaforumsa.com/component/option,com_netinvoice/action,orders/task,order/cid,8/Itemid,127/Read More

Global marketing officer council launches chapter in Africa

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, an influential global peer-network of senior marketing executives, has announced the launch of an Africa chapter to be based in Cape Town, South Africa and led by Bizcommunity.com, which has more than 260 000 content s...ubscribers in the region in the marketing industry.

The new African chapter launches as world attention begins to focus on South Africa as the host country for the FIFA World Cup 2010, and the country's growing role as catalyst for economic growth on the continent. The CMO Council now has regional groups operating in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.

The CMO Council, www.cmocouncil.org, is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership and personal relationship building among senior marketing and brand decision-makers across a wide-range of industry sectors.

For more go to http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/11/23760.htmlRead More

SA Blog Awards 2008: voting now open to public

The finalists in the SA Blog Awards 2008 were released this morning, 5 March 2008, and public voting is now open until Friday 19 March. Bizcommunity.com is thrilled to have had its Breaking News Blog [this blog] nominated in the category Best SA Business Blog. The list of n...ominees is to be found at http://www.sablogawards.com/2008/ and rules on voting at http://www.sablogawards.com/2008/rulesRead More

‘Don't interrupt me, entertain me'

Here's a newsflash: South Africa does not have broadband Internet connectivity yet. So if you're still under the misapprehension that we do because of misleading adverts, we don't. But here's what you really should note down: when we do get broadband, the behavior of your consumer onli...ne will change massively. The question is then: have you any idea how to connect properly with your consumers online?

For more, go to http://blog.bizcommunity.com/index.php/2008/02/13/digital-marketing-symposium-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-interrupt-me-entertain-me%e2%80%99/Read More

Editor Louise Marsland will be blogging from the Habari Media MSN Symposium in the picturesque Monkey Valley in Noordhoek, Cape Town. When she’s not staring out at the sea in this balmy sunny weather as a nature-starved Jozi girl, she will be reporting on how new technologies have fragmented audiences, transforming aud...iences into consumers, and consumers into producers. We’re down here with online media planners from Joburg, Durban and Cape Town, so it should be fun and games and we might even learn something about the wonderful world of online media and how to successfully connect marketing messages with audiences/consumers.

Either way, we’ll try to focus long enough to bring our readers some insights.Read More

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We welcome original opinion pieces (articles about industry issues, views, news or trends), written in first person; these are bylined with a two-to-three sentence bio on the writer, including contact details and an optional low res portrait picture.

If the opinion piece is exclusive to Bizcommunity it will be considere...d for use as a headline, so please let us know if it is for our sole use.

Guidelines for opinion pieces:

• 600 – 800 words an article;
• Each article must be relevant to our targeted media, marketing and advertising B2B readership
• Each article must be bylined if written in first person and accompanied by a head and shoulders full colour pic (low res, less than 200KB – we are not a print publication)
• Bio of the writer with company title and contact details must accompany each article
• The editor reserves the right to edit and rewrite intros and headlines to suit the style of Bizcommunity.com.
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Last year we introduced marketingnews@bizcommunity.com as the new email address to which to send press releases and opinion articles for possible editorial use on http://marketing.bizcommunity.com (not Africa Marketing, Retail Medical or Business Services).

We have set up mail filters rules to make the news editing proc...ess easier, and when the news editor goes on leave, marketingnews@bizcommunity.com is redirected to the person filling in so your emails do not get lost in someone's personal email.

We request that editor@bizcommunity.com be used only for strategic emails, invitations, proposals and interview requests.

Please also do not send to subeditor@bizcommunity.com, sub@bizcommunity.com or simone@bizcommunity.com.

Please also keep in mind that as we are a website and email newsletter, we do not require high res visuals and would prefer it if you keep to a max of 250kb per image.Read More

International business-to-business media organisation Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI) is funding the creation of a new B2B media professionals group in South Africa, which will serve as the organisation's first chapter outside of the US.

TABPI South Africa will operate independently ou...t of a base in Johannesburg and is being set up by joint co-ordinators, our Bizcommunity's very own Louise Marsland and Natalia Thomson of Now Media.

We will be providing TABPI SA with a free press office, which will be set up shortly, along with a Facebook group page (there is already a Facebook group for TABPI itself at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5728561811). For more information, or to make sure you are on the new group's database, email editor@bizcommunity.com or nataliat@nowmedia.co.za.

For more information on TABPI, go to http://www.tabpi.org.

Read the full story on Bizcommunity: http://marketing.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/15/21533.html.Read More