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OwenKessel: do the right thing, kill those silos 15 Jul 2013 | 08:10 am
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Own what you choose to be and be good at it. And do the right thing. With these two simple rules, Felix Kessel and Vaughan Owen set out five years ago to a build small bu...
Attrition, Talent & Transformation in the Digital Industry: The Elephant in the Room 15 Jul 2013 | 08:00 am
Prakash Patel, CEO of Prezence, looks at attrition, talent & transformation – the “elephant in the room” - in the marketing industry in this first of a two-part series. With the emergence of new tech...
MagLove: Gary Player, naked and 77, puts the rest of us to shame 12 Jul 2013 | 10:32 am
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazi...
MarkLives Best Read June 2013: 12 Jul 2013 | 08:00 am
The ten best read stories on MarkLives during the month of June.
Shelf Life: Edcon squares up for ecommerce 11 Jul 2013 | 11:50 am
Louise Marsland’s (@Louise_Marsland) pick of new product, packaging and design launches. International design success for Porky Hefer; artful potato chips from McCain; Jacobs coffee pops into odd spa...
Social Media Gets An Ass-Whooping From Google, Email 11 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Over four years ago, in a post entitled Looking For Volunteers, I wrote the following... "TAC predicts that when the frenzy over Facebook, Twitter, and other social media calms down and the dust clea...
Ad of the Week with Oresti Patricios – “The Chef” 10 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Amstel Lager’s main brand differentiator has been the promise that it is “slow-brewed”, which allegedly produces a better tasting product. This beer has always been a little more expensive than the ot...
Mac, how hard is it to be honest and open about Mandela? 10 Jul 2013 | 08:21 am
by Gill Moodie (@GrubstreetSA)I was very touched – as I’m sure were many other viewers – by the interview on eNCA last Friday by Annika Larsen with former Rivonia trialist Denis Goldberg after he visi...
Is a Cannes (Lion) on the shelf worth two cans in the basket? 10 Jul 2013 | 08:07 am
As June drew to a close it had been hard to avoid following anything but the glamorous and mysterious week in the south of France for which our industry awaits all year long. Facebook pages fill with ...
Design Annotator: Beer campaigns and street art 9 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Design Annotator with Uno de Waal is a new column featuring the top design work from South Africa’s biggest online creative showcase, Between 10 and 5, curated by Publisher Uno de Waal @Unodewaal. St...
