Recently I had a chat with our good mate and all round legend Matt Buckland and he was telling me about a fab event being organised by himself and Brand South Africa’s International Marketing Council (IMC), with a little help also from the great Dave Duarte.
Basically the idea is to expose some great Bloggers from the USA to the wonderful stuff we are doing online over here in deepest darkest Africa and help promote brand South Africa. The guys and girls from the states will be joined by a couple of SA’s finest and the whole journey will be documented on each individuals blog as well as them all being aggregated on www.weblogtheworld.com with some videos being kindly made by www.zoopy.com.
As a starter any local bloggers and digital citizens are invited to attend and meet up with the touring US blogger “delegation” this Sunday 8pm, at Asoka Bar in Cape Town. Space is limited so be quick and Put your name down here to attend.
The full line of peeps is listed below.
- Renee Blodgett and Ray Lewis – down the avenue
- Zadi Diaz – ZadiDiaz.com
- Mona Gable – The Huffington Post
- John Gartner – Matter Network
- Chris Morrison – VentureBeat
- David Sasaki – Global Voices Online
- Eliane Fioret – Ubergizmo
- Graeme Wood – The American Scene, The Smart Set, TheAtlantic.com
Joining the tour will be two of South Africa’s best bloggers: Thought Leader’s Ndumiso Ngcobo, author of Some of My Best Friends Are White, and Nick Haralambous of South Africa Rocks.
Looking forward to meeting everyone and thinking a braai at the Stormhoek farm might be in order 🙂