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I am is facilitating a youth workshop, trying to reach out to them. I feel I have to help. What suggestions or advice do you have please?

Started by nadiem. Last reply by nadiem 5 hours ago .

Can you do better than the design on this site?

Hi all, You may have noticed that Jo, Walter and I are not designers - we've made some minor changes to a standard Ning theme for this site and made our own clip-art logo, but that pretty much exh...

Tagged: mashup, opensource, design

Started by Pam Sykes 17 hours ago

FlyingSolo colours and graphic inspiration 1 Reply

Hi all, I'm about to update this site with new colours and our lovely superhero logo. If anybody feels inspired to mess about with these or create your own versions, I'm using a palette created at...

Tagged: mashup, colour, logo, design

Started by Pam Sykes. Last reply by Jo Duxbury 21 hours ago .

Blog Posts

Calling all start-up ICT Entrepreneurs - free programme run by CITI

Hi everyone For those of you in Cape Town, if you were at the CT Flying Solo event you might remember Alan from PeerPower talking about the various programmes that the Cape IT Initiative runs. One is VeloCITI, which my company, Freelancentral, plus Rafiq and Jamaal were on in 2007. CITI's newsletter yesterday includes a call for applications for the next VeloCITI programme: VELOCITI is aimed at young IT entrepreneurs who are running a business where the true potential is yet to be fully explo… Continue

Posted by Jo Duxbury on 7th August 2008 at 4:56pm — No Comments (Add)

Comic Book illustrator

Hi there At the unconference at the Wild Fig last Saturday there was a comic book illustrator but for the life of me I can't remember his name. If someone knows, please contact me with an email or phone number as I need to chat to him. Thanks! Scott

Posted by Scott Smith on 30th July 2008 at 4:57pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Why Reputation Management Matters for Small Businesses

Never has the opinion of the individual been as powerful as it is today. One negative blog post or product review can spread online in a flash and change the direction of a company. Need proof? See Jeff Jarvis’ 2005 blog post, Dell lies. Dell sucks, which created the “Dell Hell” phenomenon and forced the company to make big changes to how it interacts with its customers. We’re doing business in an era when search engines appear to be putting greater value on blogs and user-generated content; wh… Continue

Posted by Walter Pike on 29th July 2008 at 8:23pm — No Comments (Add)

FAIL-SAFE ANSWERS TO FREELANCERS' FAQs - by John Berry

Now available FREE to all members: (1) Marketing ourselves, (2) Pricing our Goods and Services, and (3) Getting paid for work we've done - more titles to come Simply blog John with your requirements and they will be blogged back to you.

Posted by John R Berry on 27th July 2008 at 3:53pm — 6 Comments (Add)

Freelance financial/economics writers wanted

I need freelance writers, preferably from Gauteng, but other areas are also fine as long as you have stable email connectivity and a Skype address. Writers with strong media contacts are preferred. I've been contracted to relaunch the bi-monthly Productivity SA magazine, which is a long-established title of Productivity SA, a public entity formerly known as the National Productivity Institute. This magazine, which in earlier years had print runs of over 40 000 copies, has fallen on hard times… Continue

Posted by Clive Lotter on 27th July 2008 at 11:34am — 2 Comments (Add)