Charl Norman » press http://www.charlnorman.com @cn Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:29:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 MNET All Access interview http://www.charlnorman.com/2010/07/19/mnet-all-access-interview/ http://www.charlnorman.com/2010/07/19/mnet-all-access-interview/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:47:39 +0000 Charl Norman http://www.charlnorman.com/?p=627 My interview from 2009 on MNET All Access… our company has come a long way since!

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Brainstorm magazine – I’m featured with my BWCOM business partner Bradley Voges as well as Adii Rockstar and mobile prodigy Tyler Reed.

Leadership magazine with Rob Sussman CEO of Integr8-IT and Adii Rockstar of WooThemes fame

]]> http://www.charlnorman.com/2009/06/24/magazine-press/feed/ 1 300 Young South Africans: Technology http://www.charlnorman.com/2009/06/12/300-young-south-africans-technology/ http://www.charlnorman.com/2009/06/12/300-young-south-africans-technology/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:26:36 +0000 Charl Norman http://www.charlnorman.com/?p=581 I made the list of Mail and Guardian’s 300 South Africans to watch in technology

To be described as a visionary, a marketing genius and a Web 2.0 guru at 24 is quite impressive, but then Charl Norman did start young. He launched his first website while still in high school.
Now, at 24, he heads Blueworld Communities (BWCOM) and has nine years experience in online publishing. BWCOM, which Charl co-founded, was acquired by Media24 in 2008. It owns leading social networks in South Africa such as Zoopedup.com and Blueworld.co.za.
Norman was a runner-up for the ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008 and nominated for the Top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in South Africa. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. He’s an avid blogger and a public speaker on internet strategy. — Qudsiya Karrim

Check out who else is featured here and here

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Today we interview one of South Africa’s most respected social network gurus.

He owns & runs multiple social networks and recently one of those sites got acquired by one of the biggest companies in the world.

His name is Charl Norman, and today he is on the Couch.

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Mike Stopforth – Ten (More) Young South African Digital Citizens To Watch

Charl Norman is not just a promising young talent, he’s already proven what he can do. Climbing on the social networking explosion of 2007 and 2008, Charl realised he could use his Web savvy and business instincts to bring niche social networks (like BlueWorld and ZoopedUp) to the South African internet. And he did it so well a big-ass media company paid him lost of money for it – and rightly deserved. Charl has, despite his admirable succes, remained a pleasant, humble and trustworthy dude that I sincerely enjoy meeting up with. The only downside is that I have to have four Red Bulls laced with acid to keep up with the conversation…

Nic Haralambous – Defining 08/09 – analysing the year past and the year ahead

Charl Norman is the co founder and chief operations manager (COO) for Blueworld Communities. BWCOM owns numerous niche social networks based in South Africa.

1. Blueworld Communities being acquired by Naspers – this paved the way for other acquisitions in our local space – Zoopy and Afrigator soon followed with investment from Vodacom and MIH/Naspers. This created investor confidence in our small local market and enabled other startups to more confidently seek investment.

2. The economic crisis will slow down venture capital investments and startups unable to figure out their revenue model will have their funding reviewed or forced to merge with other similar lower tier startups.

Users will own their online identity (e.g. profiles) with tools like Google and Facebook connect. Users will carry this identity along with them around the web forcing online communities like social networks to embrace data portability technology.

Social media will also become more mainstream as tools like Twitter will be adopted by the general public and not just geeks. Good companies will have concrete social media strategies as part of their overall marketing strategy.

More press here

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Round up of some press my company and I have received over the last few weeks ..

Mandy de Waal: There are those who talk

Mind The 2.0 Talent Gap

May the GForce be with you

Mandy de Waal: Eating humble pie

Awesome Words About the eMarketing Textbook

Moneyweb – Wired – SA`s ten most influential bloggers

VenFin launches tech fund: South Africa: News: Companies: Fin24

BrandsEye Reputation Monitoring – now available for $1 per month!

Micro-View of the South African Blogosphere

Introducing our panel of judges | Inside 24.com

Not The Saturday Night News ” Blueworld’s Norman on his plans for London

What’s Up In SA Blogosphere. | YuppieGuy.Com

Wishing Madiba happy birthday in oh-so-many ways

Moneyweb – Wired – The Gadget Guy – Charl Norman

Tech Leader ” Nicholas Haralambous ” Let’s Talk to Charl Norman

Search marketing set to soar – ITWeb

27dinner ” Melissa Attree

Above photo found here – JayZ flickr stream – Seo Blog interview

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]]> http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/10/my-springleap-video-interview/feed/ 0 Carte Blanche 15 seconds of fame http://www.charlnorman.com/2007/09/27/carte-blanche-15-seconds-of-fame/ http://www.charlnorman.com/2007/09/27/carte-blanche-15-seconds-of-fame/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:43:08 +0000 Charl Norman http://www.charlnorman.com/2007/09/27/carte-blanche-15-seconds-of-fame/ I was interviewed by John Webb from Carte Blanche about a website I started (and forgot about..) www.powerloss.co.za

The episode was about the recent power outages

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