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2007 SA Blog Awards

March 30th, 2007

We just got home from the 2007 SA Blog Awards held at Cool Runnings in Fourways. We had a great time and each of the winners deserve a hearty congratulations. Rich…! and his Missing Links were there with their gear and helped Jonathan Cherry, the Awards’ organiser, make the event a thoroughly enjoyable event.

Tertia Albertyn won the overall award for Best SA Blog and I agree that her blog is a fantastic example of the talent in our corner of the globe. Well done, my friend!

As some of us married types were leaving we got to see a video which had been put together from footage shot earlier that evening (these Missing Link people are amazing!) which ~~you can expect to see on the Web very soon~~ which is below. All in all we had a great time chatting, playing foosball (I even got to play) and celebrating all of us!

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sa blog awards, cool runnings, fourways, blogging, missing link, foosball, jonathan cherry

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One month of chili luvin’

March 14th, 2007

Hooray! Today is the one month anniversary of our “big announcement” - chilibean media’s launch! What a month it has been.

To start off, we launched with a video, which gave you - our readers - an insight into who we - the chilibeaners - are. Paul talks alot, I laugh alot. Hopefully you feel like you could wander over to either of us and have a chat, now that you could recognise us from a mile away.

The video was also an introduction into this medium for us, one we found rather fun to dabble in (however time consuming the post production may be). I am sure that you will see more of chilibean on video sometime in the future, but for now we’re keeping our “made for podcasting” faces just there… on the chilipods!

The launch video, subsequent feedback from the general blogging community, and a rather official chilibean meeting lead to us formulating the chilibean manifesto, which Paul introduced on Episode 2 of chilipod, and which I will be putting up on the site this week. We were given an opportunity to tone down on the jargon and to express what we have in our hearts regarding chilibean’s offering… in plain English even we can understand.

Talking of podcasting, chilibean got to podcast the Quirk eMarketing WebPR+ conference in this month too. We met Sally Falkow and a whole wack of Quirk people, including Rob Stokes and the Sar ah’s. We learnt tons about Marketing and PR, and got a great insight into where New Media can be implemented in this industry… right now!

I’ve also been rather busy in another venture - the SA Blog Awards 2007 - where chilibean has been nominated as a finalist in two categories!

I was invited to be a part of the judging panel. This has been an awesome chance to get to know the bloggers behind the blogs we read, as well as an opportunity to scrutinise the SA blogs themselves… There is a wealth of talent out there, if only there were more hours in the day to just explore the SA blogosphere! With the enormous responsibility of having a hand in choosing the best of the best comes much learning - The judging process is a complex one, and the Cherryflava team really put much effort into making it better every year. Having been a part of that process this year, I can see that there is a gap for the local blogging community to add real value by stepping in and giving their constructive feedback. As a passionately SA blogger I will definitely be helping out wherever I can.

And in between all of this we’ve continued to deliver quality blogging content to your screens! Here’s to another month of chilibean fun and excitement…

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Medieval technical support

March 10th, 2007

I found this gem on The Social Customer Manifesto and thought you’d enjoy it:

Tags: medieval, technical support, support, books, new media

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Behind the Scenes with chilibean

February 26th, 2007

Paul and I announced chilibean media’s launch on the 14th February with a special launch video - what you saw was "chilibean on the rocks", but behind the scenes it was more like a cloud of dust, as we scrambled with the technicalities of recording and editing in a medium we’ve not had much experience in! However, when all the dust settled the video was miraculously edited, the chilibean flash banner converted into video, and we were ready to rock! All of this is thanks to an awesome team of outsourced talent:

- Office For Design’s Paula and Lize for their outstanding design work and excellent service delivered with a smile,

- Nico from Aquila Online for being our swish cinematographer, and then burning the midnight oil getting the video just right - cuts and all.

After all the editing was done, Nico surprised us with a montage - the chilibean bloopers - revealing the candid and un-edited face of the chilibean team. Keep an eye out for the chili dance, which I referred to in my del.icio.us chililuvin post last week!

Tags: chilibean media, chilibean, video, bloopers, aquila online, office for design

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Missing Link TV: what could possibly go wrong?

January 12th, 2007

Mike Stopforth has just posted this one. The Missing Links have a TV channel, of a sort, called MLTV (or Missing Link TV) and it is nothing less than inspired!

Ok, from a new media perspective MLTV is a really clever use of YouTube embedded videos and some very well designed blog templates to create an interface for a TV show that appeals to the eye and is really entertaining.

One really brilliant aspect of this format is that Google carries the cost of the bandwidth (which is a huge consideration for video sharing). MLTV is going to establish a new standard for user created video content. Awesome job guys.

From a pure entertainment perspective, these guys are funny: