The past week has been an exciting journey, unpacking everything about Crowdfunding and Crowd Raising with GivenGain at the Grow Academy. After 3 weeks of Social Media, Web Designing and SEO, we (grow recruits) […]

We are excited to announce that the GROW 2012 Winter Bootcamp is here! The bootcamp is aimed at school leavers and the unemployed who are passionate about everything digital. The bootcamp will take place 9 – 13 […]

The time for online studies with Getsmarter has arrived once again. Last year I did the Internet Super-User course and now I have the privilege of doing the Business Writing course. It is a 10-week part-time course presented online which covers; improving your business writing skills, learning the correct layout, style and content requirements for…[Read more]

Twenty school leavers from Athlone, Khayelitsha and Stellenbosch have successfully completed the five day training.It included Social Media ( RLabs), Business Writing ( Duo Marketing ), Web Design and Development ( WooThemes), Search Engine Optimisation ( WebGrowth) and Crowdraising ( GivenGain). The aim of the Boot Camp was to develop new talent…[Read more]

We started off the day with the usual routine check-in, all recruits immediately reported to the bridge where the honourable Drill Sergeant Jannie Smith had all recruits march out onto the field where they were on command ready for another group activity like the previous blog post  stated “a healthy body enables a healthy mind.”  In [...]

The afternoon commenced with one of my favorite Social Media tools, Twitter . The new recruits were engaged by the talented Social Media experts Rene Parker and Monique Ross, presenting the vital components and the application thereof. After a very informative session, the recruits had the opportunity to sign up their own twitter account, …[Read more]

The GetSmarter was a great opportunity that i was’nt going to let slip through my fingers, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me the experience of doing a UCT internet super user course was great and knowing i would then have a UCT certificate to my name and which would be [...]

New recruits were challenged with an activity whereby they had to identify and explain various social media tools. These tools included LinkedIn, Blogger, Facebook, Gmail,  WordPress,  Twitter, Picasa, Youtube, Slideshare and Skype. They had the opportunity to work in groups and to present their ideas of each social media application. I am pleased…[Read more]

 Today the new recruits involved in the  Grow Academy  BootCamp 2012 will indulge in the world of Social and New Media. This includes the application of social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and File sharing applications. The  RLabs team will utilize their expertise in this field to educate the new recruits with skills and knowledge…[Read more]

The first  Grow Academy  Boot Camp for 2012 has arrived, with new recruits coming on board for a five day journey whereby they are empowered with digital tools and skills for school leavers and the digitally passionate unemployed to get back into the job market. The morning started with the registration and thereafter the new recruits were introduced [...]

The Silulo social media training was a great experience for me because it was something i did not see myself doing but i took it as a challenge and made the most of it, i was proud of myself for helping people who did’nt know anything about social media and it was a amazing introducing them [...]

My journey with Rlabs started at the beginning of the year when i started my first course which was social media in march, i knew absolutely nothing at the time and didn’t know what to expect but was very excited and nervous at the same time. We did everything on social media and then signed [...]

The Table Mountain Campaign was a great experience for me, was great going out to the different schools and college’s doing the vote for table mountain surgeries. The whole idea of the campaign was to get as much votes as possible so that Table Mountain could be one of the 7 wonders of nature through out [...]

So last night we met up with  Sam Paddock  (Director) and Masha Du Toit  (Course Convener ) from  Get Smarter   unfortunately our course co-ordinator,  Che-Lee Mauritz  could not make it. We did a quick check-in with them, told them about ourselves and interests.They explained the online course,  UCT Internet Super-User  to us and we were given…[Read more]

So the marks for the assignment 2 of my GetSmarter Internet Super-User results has been released and I am more than pleased with my marks I have to say. I aimed for higher than my module one mark which was 93% in which I obtained 98% for my module 2. It should have been 100% lol. Module 2 was [...]