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

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:

• iMod Digital on Facebook
• iMod Digital on Twitter
• iMod Digital Website

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!

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

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!

GROUPLOVE – Colours

Young the Giant – Cough Syrup

Happy Friday everyone!

Fun – We Are Young

Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

Kelly Clarkson – Stronger

What songs are playing over and over in your playlist?

• How to analyze Facebook Insights to improve your content strategy [video]: http://j.mp/Ho6E8t
• AuthorRank & The Future of Guest Posting: http://j.mp/HxMOJ0
• Pinterest traffic is worthless, unless you know how to use it: http://j.mp/HWuCaV
• 8 Ways to boost e-commerce shopping cart conversions: http://j.mp/HjFgHO
• 35 Beautiful landing page designs to drool over: http://j.mp/HA0SFy
• Google Plus – To invest or not to invest: http://j.mp/Iyln3n
• Visualising behaviour-drive lead nurturing: http://j.mp/IylHiD
• Can’t Code? How to find a technical co-founder [video]: http://j.mp/Hj53Dp
• 7 Mistakes to avoid on your e-commerce site: http://j.mp/Hzk6FL
• Three ways to get a niche product to retailers: http://j.mp/HaXTCL
• How to get more likes on Facebook: http://j.mp/IyTt7p
• Brilliant Smart Car Twitter campaign: http://j.mp/IyogBj
• Great insight into Viral Content: http://j.mp/Ifl5cY
• AuthorRank and the future of SEO: http://j.mp/HLBs7N
• Digital Natives: How they are changing the content marketing game: http://j.mp/HzdlE7
• The knack of looking big for small businesses: http://j.mp/HQKkoG

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

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!