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 like to keep busy and this past week has been no acception - we hosted a farewall to Malan Joubert with the Blueworld staff (he’s working for Adii now), attended the Heavy Chef event with Allan kent from ATPlay, flew to P.E. for the 27 Dinner I’m speaking at tonight and had the priviledge to cruise around in a Chev Lumina SS while in the Eastern Cape - you can catch all the pics on my Flickr.
My Chev Lumina SS ‘rental’
Heavy Chef @ 24.com
Blueworld staff party - farewall to Foxinni
Here’s the clip of the Heavy Chefs session two weeks ago featuring myself and Eric Edelstein. Thanks again to Fred, Mike and the rest of the Ideate/WWC guys for considering me for the talk.
I’m speaking tomorrow at the Heavy Chefs event with serial entrepreneur Eric Edelstein. I will be talking about our experiences with Blueworld - marketing the networks, best practises we found, user experience enhancement, aggregating content from vottle and 24, the 24.com acquisition and some future prospects and projects.
From the HeavyChefs blog
Great news (although a little late!) This month’s Heavy Chef Session has been announced, with eminent speakers Eric Edelstein and Charl Norman to kick off a new series entitled ‘Netrepeneurs’. The brilliant news is that Play.24.com has agreed to sponsor the event with a film crew.
This is particularly exciting because we’ve noticed that a large portion of our audience is outside of South Africa, where most of the Sessions are held. Now, our European and US readers can get in on the action and view some of the highlights of the monthly presentations.
Read more about the event here.
I’m doing a small talk about building and managing social networks next week at Dave Duarte’s Technomadic Markets course at the UCT Graduate school of Business. Other speakers include big names such as Mike Stopforth, Vincent Maher, Eric Edelstein, Paul Jacobson, Tyler Reed, Alan Kent and offcourse Dave Duarte.
Nomadic Marketing is a 3-Day executive Education Course being held at the UCT Graduate School of Business from 16 to 18 April 2008. Learn how to engage a dynamic, global market online with a strategic look at new trends and technologies such as blogs, social-networks and mobile applications.
Here’s the Technomadic Marketing wrap up video from Zoopy
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
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 in the Press
