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Some photographs from April and May 2012

Here’s a small collection of photographs from April and May:

I’ve captioned all the photographs on Facebook: click here.

New Beginning: iMod Digital

I tossed and turned about writing this post for a number of reasons, but decided that because iMod has always been my outlet and because I have a number of friends and family who read my blog to find out about my life, that I would.

Tomorrow will be my first day of running my own company, iMod Digital. Although the iMod brand has operated since the 15th of July 2005 and has serviced a number of clients, I am now taking it to the next level and will be operating it as a digital marketing agency. It’s a dream come true and I’m so very happy that I took the plunge!

A few people have contacted me asking about The Forge Web Creations and so I wanted to take this opportunity to share my thoughts:

I joined The Forge Web Creations a few years ago when it was only 3 of us. Over the years the company has grown in leaps and bounds, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being a part of its growth! Working at The Forge has been a journey that has enabled me to growth both professionally and personally. Leaving The Forge, for me, can be summarized in just two words: Bitter Sweet. Bitter because I’m going to miss everyone so bloody much, but sweet because I’m very excited about the possibilities that await. I can honestly say that I was truly blessed to have been given the opportunity to work at The Forge Web Creations. I will continue to consult to The Forge, which I’m thrilled about as it will keep me in touch with the incredible team.

So that’s it – A big journey ahead, but an awesome one!

Maybe, just maybe: boom! ;-)

You can watch my progress here:

If only..

.. my life was this simple:

Bella & Calla

Bella & Calla

The Steri Stumpie 1 Litre Launch Party

Oh wow, so much of awesomeness this morning when Steri Stumpie arrived at the office and handed me a VIP entry card to their discotheque where they unveiled the new 1 Litre boxes of Steri Stumpie goodness!

Let’s look at the photographs:


Photographs by Andre in Africa

What a blast! Steri Stumpie kicked off April with their Ketchup flavour campaign and now this, they’re on fire!!!

You can follow Steri Stumpie on Twitter here or catch them on Facebook here.

Big up to Cat from Society for pulling off an awesome campaign!

Some photographs from the company retreat

I’ve been in Stellenbosch for a company retreat, and whilst being here I managed to snap a few photographs that I wanted to post. Andre snapped some really great ones, which I’ll bug him for when we’re back in the office on Monday.

I unfortunately didn’t get any pics of lunch, dinner or the poker game, but I’ll see what I can capture tomorrow!

The place we’re staying at: Auberge Rozendal

Company retreat!

I’m quite excited about tomorrow as The Forge Web Creations is going on a company retreat, we’ve wanted to break away for a couple days to discuss some internal processes and such for quite some time and we’re finally doing it, it’s going to be a blast!

I’ve never been on a company retreat before so I’m not completely sure what’s install for all of us, but I do know that we’re going to a gorgeous place, we’ll be served delicious meals, sip on cold beers and brainstorm like none of us have ever brainstormed before. The conference area at the retreat looks really great, so I think communication and ideas will be flowing really quickly tomorrow.

I’ve been at The Forge for just over 3.5 years I think, it’s quite incredible to think about and realise just how much can be achieved in 3.5 years. In fact, I went back 3.5 years in my email and had a read of some of them – remarkable!

Anyway, I actually wanted to reach out earlier and ask who had been on a company retreat before so I could get some ideas and such, but I’ve left it rather late, so unless you’re sitting online reading blogs on Saturday morning I’ll probably only hear from you once I’m already there.

I did find a great guide on company retreats, nice and organised read, quite interesting.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Another two awesome tunes!

Big up to Wiehan for sending these tunes through on my tunes I’m loving post:

GROUPLOVE – Colours

Young the Giant – Cough Syrup

Happy Friday everyone!

Some tunes I’ve been enjoying

From time to time I become a serious sucker for commercial music and that’s happening right now, these three tunes find themselves in my playlist:

Fun – We Are Young

Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

Kelly Clarkson – Stronger

What songs are playing over and over in your playlist?

My recent reading list [links]

Over the past week I’ve read some really great articles and I usually send them out via the @iModDigital Twitter account, but decided that I would start sharing them here for those of you who read or subscribe to the blog. These are normally articles that I feel are important for entrepreneurs, businesses or anyone involved in the online search/social space.

Have you read a great article recently? Please feel free to share it in the comments.

Win an Audi A1 with BlackBerry!

Who doesn’t want to touch awesomeness? I certainly do and BlackBerry too. BlackBerry have launched an awesome new campaign with some incredible prizes up for grabs and I’m taking part to see if I can win!

The first leg of the contest, which is open to everyone, is rocking the mic! Yeh, that’s right, you rap/sing into your computer (mic-line) and then overlay it on some beats that BlackBerry provides.. I gave it a bash and although my Internet was completely playing up and wasn’t transmitting my outgoing data I did manage to record my first verse, which (heaven help me) you can listen to below:

Ok, so like please don’t laugh at me, I’ve never claimed to be down in the hood with rapping and I’ve got nothing on Cheddar Bomb and the 313:

Here are my rhymes:

So I’m sitting here on the BlackBerry site
Voicing my opinion, you better listen, alright
The BlackBerry Curve is an awesome phone
I’m guna bust this beat into a ringtone

I really wanted to get into it and do a wicked 3 verse piece, but this darn Internet doesn’t want to behave, perhaps I’ll have a chance to try again tomorrow.

Oh ya, and here’s what you can win:

Come on, I challenge you to give it a go, if I can do it and publish it right here for every single one of you to listen to, then you can too!

Click here to show off you skills!