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South Africa Streetview on Google Maps in 3D!

aslam — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:08:25 +0000

You might have seen my post earlier announcing the new South Africa Streetview on maps.google.com.

But have you seen the 3D View? Yup, how insane is that?

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How do you activate it?
- Well, firstly you go to maps.google.com
- Search for the street in Cape Town you’re looking for.
- Then Drag the orange “Pegman” onto your street.
- Voila! Streetview (Or click here for an example )
- Then for the 3D, it’s as easy as right clicking on the image in Google Maps and selecting “3D on”. Easy Peasy!
But you’ll need a pair of these:

Will be weird walking in on someone scanning Google Maps wearing a pair of those..
-A-

Win Stuff online

aslam — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:05:25 +0000

Online Marketing is has boomed in the last few years with many retailers seeing the value in having online presence.
The biggest challenge facing them is conversion. How does one get a visitor to your site to engage with your brand, and finally purchase a product.

An Age old Strategy is the Competition Model where customers are rewarded for taking the time and/or effort to look at the products the Retailer has.

Online competitions are great as they also allow Retailers to begin a basic Customer Relationship Management strategy by collecting contact details of people entering these competitions.
Today I visited winstuff.co.za who not only list current online competitions in South Africa, but also reward visitors to their site and Facebook group.

I see this Marketing Model as a win win situation for both Retailer and Customer and recommend you check out:

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Another good site

What the F**k Is Social Media? Marta Kagan Presentation proves Print evangelists wrong

aslam — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:58:27 +0000

Today I was at a Newsclip News Measurement Company Seminar where the presenter showed slides of stats showing how meaningless it is for South African Businesses to invest in Social Media. Fortunately his MD(who had been to the AMEC Measurement Summit) took a more diplomatic stance saying that Internet in South Africa had not matured and we have not yet seen it’s full potential.

To all the social Media critics see the presentation below:

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later

View more documents from Marta Kagan.

Regards:
-A-

Cape Town 1 Year to Worldcup 2010 Kickoff Video

aslam — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:15:39 +0000

Backtrack is: CODA – “Blow your Vuvuzela”

Cape Town. Ready to welcome the WORLD!

Cape Town – Pic of the day

aslam — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:15:04 +0000

From the Cape Town Tourism blog here

The Beauty of Cape Town, one picture a day

NICE!

aslamlevy.co.za – The Launch

aslam — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:16:36 +0000

So, with my increasingly addictive foray into the wired world of social networks, I’m proud to publish this first post at aslamlevy.co.za

With Blogging and Micro-blogging the “new frontier” on the web we start to find that people are searching for content specific to theirs needs. My position as the eMarketing Coordinator at Cape Town Tourism should be a good foundation to show the work being done in the Tourism as they look to extend themselves onto ePlatforms.

The Official Cape Town Tourism Website at www.capetown.travel was designed with interaction with the consumer in mind. I will elaborate more on how our site and blog aims to bridge our entry onto rich media web platforms in up coming posts.

My challenge with Tourism is how to make locals feel that the term “Tourism” does not exclude them while at the same positioning Cape Town as a Premier Long Haul Destination to our Key Target Markets. Cape Town Tourism has 20 Visitor Information Centres scattered all over Cape Town. With so much free information on offer, how is it that locals don’t know about this, and how can the ePlatform create the required awareness?

As this is my first post, I feel that I’ve got some people to thank that got me to this point.
Number 1 of course, my girlfriend Suzanne, my source of motivation and inspiration.
Friends, collegues and Family. Far to many to mention them all but Thurston deserves a special Thank you.
Then, all the guys on my social networks for pioneering the path I’m following, your work impresses me.
Charl Norman, this site wouldn’t be here without you – Thanks

So with all formalities over, let’s get this up and running! YEAH!!

-A-