Eric Edelstein

I want to share a story that happened to me tonight, and find out how you would have felt?
I was at a community dinner with the entertainment being a quiz. There were 12 tables and their was one prize ONLY for the winning table - a cruise on a yaught.
The crowd was noisy and there [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi Jayne has become a CELEBRITY and caused a CONTROVERSY in the US, by creating a few music video’s in her spare time when she’s not working @ Facebook.
Although some of her other video’s are still ramping up the YouTube charts, Valleyfreude, where she Pokes fun @ Yahoo, has been pulled…
But I [...]

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Are you looking to full up the CV? Want to get your hands on some REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE.
I’m looking to take on some interns.
ONE:
I’m looking for marketing & PR interns to get their hands dirty on some ripping online and offline projects. Some of the marketing projects will be traditional, some will be new media, [...]

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I spent the night @ the GeekDinner at a restaurant in the Waterfront meeting some fascinating guys who made me appreciate that my programming skills probably don’t deserve to be labelled skills or programming! These boyz are Tech Hardcore!
Although I pleaded for a Rubix cube that Henk dropped off, for a change I hadn’t [...]

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You open your laptop, flip the webcam switch on, record a quick video clip with yourself asking a question that you want to ask one of the Democratic presidential candidates, and within a few minutes you have uploaded it to YouTube.
And then CNN displays your question in front of the Democratic presidential candidates, and they [...]

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Amanda, the marketing and events manager for MaAfrika Tikkun, invited me to an event that MaAfrika Tikkun was running.
On Monday 23rd July 2007, MaAfrika Tikkun and Deutsche Bank Foundation presents our Big Talk Youth Conference. This is a one day conference where 150 students from 25 schools around the Western Cape will have the opportunity [...]

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I spent time at the Techomadic Markets course the last 2 days.
On wednesday afternoon i did a 400 second speech called a pecha kucha.
What an amazing presentation technique - I started preparing at 4pm on monday night and worked on it till 3am tuesday morning!!
How does it differ from other presentation techniques? 20 slides of [...]

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Unlike many of my other websites, I haven’t spent anytime optimising the Eric Edelstein blog for the search engines.
And recently I was thinking the following question: What type of visitors are important to me?
Where do the visitors reading EricEdelstein.com come from…

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