Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks Blueworld and Zoopedup, he also owns a network of leading blogs including Car Blog and Bandwidth Blog, writes for tech and auto publications such as Leadership mag, guest lectures at UCT/CPUT and does the occasional public speaking event. More >
I was a judge in the 2008 South African E-Commerce Awards hosted by JUMP Shopping. The results have just been announced and I’m pleased to say I was almost spot on with the winners I selected. You can see the results here.
After an immensely successful round of voting, in which over 10,000 votes were cast, Jump shopping is proud to announce the winners of the 2008 South African E-Commerce Awards!
This year’s awards carried the same format as the previous years’ by first giving the public the opportunity to nominate their favourite South African Online stores in 20 different categories. Once a list of nominees had been published the public and a panel of Judges were given the opportunity to cast their votes.
The votes were split 49% from the public and 51% from the judges. This year’s judges were Albert Bredenhann, Andy Hadfield, Arthur Goldstuck, Charl Norman, Damaria Senne, Ferdie Bester, Henk Kleynhans, Ismail Dhorat and Marlon Parker.
Speakerbox was featured in Design and Innovation magazine a few weeks ago - we are very pleased with the review which forms part of a bundle of positive press we’ve received about our properties in recent months.
Blueworld was recently featured in the Media24 staff magazine which goes out to thousands of Naspers employees around the country - click for the big version
WOW! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Beginning of this month we moved into new offices on Long Street, then we had our BWCOM quarterly report back to Media24 and they are over the moon with us and finally yesterday - I received the most exciting news!
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renown Vinny Lingham.
ForgeAhead, our Partners and Stakeholders, congratulates you for being nominated for the 2008 African ICT Achievers Awards. ForgeAhead is celebrating the 10th Anniversary for the African ICT Achievers Awards programme…
.. You have been nominated in the following category: Top ICT Young Entrepreneur in Africa.
Got a few interviews coming up later this year to determine the final list of nominees and then to Jozi for the ceremony. Hold thumbs!
It’s been a good few weeks regarding personal and Blueworld press - here’s a list of press from our Blueworld mobile wap site launch and other snippets of press.
Last week I listed some of the press we’ve received around the new Blueworld launch - today my Cape Times interview was published and can be found on page 6 of the Techno Times insert.
Here’s the article scanned - ‘Blueworld is SA’s own Facebook’ - not the angle we wanted to go with but you can’t always control these things.
Blueworld was featured on Carte Blanche alongside Rafiq Phillips in a muchdebated web 2.0 episode. I made a small appearance with Fariq Rafiq at Cafe Neo in the episode. The Carte Blanche footage is from the Blueworld video galleries.
I’ve had a good week with attending my first 27 geek dinner which led to me writing the Afrigator Beta launch post on Bandwidth Blog. The post was picked up my bloggers and news publishers across the web and resulted in a healthy chunk of traffic for Bandwidth.
Here is some of the sites I found mentioning Afrigator, myself and Bandwidth blog. Thanks to the Afri guys for building such a hot beta application which made it easy for me to write a good review.
Now with all the buzz around Afrigator and my blog post doing the rounds on other blogs I made it onto Techmeme which showcases blog posts that other bloggers are talking about and linking to - this resulted in more traffic, huge traffic in fact.
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renowned Vinny Lingham.
Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks 
WOW! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Beginning of this month 
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
