"Good luck with your future endeavors Matt."
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Werd, Charl Norman!
Intro
I’m an award winning consumer internet and digital media entrepreneur.
Previously I managed operations for Blueworld Communities (BWC), a company I founded with partners. BWC operates online communities in the entertainment, motoring and dating space in South Africa and was acquired by Media24/Naspers in 2008.
BWC also owns various platforms that power many leading brands in South Africa's web and mobile properties.
BWC also created Afridoctor, the Award winning J2ME application that won the $85.000 Nokia Application Innovation Award.
In 2011, I was a founding member of Touchlab, the application development division within Naspers, that builds applications and tablet publications for iOS and Android.
I also own a publishing network of titles including CarBlog.co.za, consistently ranked among the TOP 10 blogs in South Africa and BandwidthBlog.com, an opinionated tech and internet news blog which has hit the homepage of Digg, been referenced by ReadWriteWeb numerous times and has won awards such as a silver pixel at The Bookmarks and best technology blog in the SA Blog Awards. Other titles include SportBlog.co.za and Fintalk.co.za.
I have 12 years of digital experience and started my first website (zoopedup.com) while still in high school.
I was also runner up for the ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa Award in 2008, included in Mail & Guardian's top 200 young executives and nominated for Top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in Africa.
Specialties
SEM, SMM, Product Management, Project Management, UX and UI team leader, Development Manager, Business Development, Public Speaking, Affiliate Marketing, Digital Publishing, Mobile (off deck and native), Branding, Hiring
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Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 12:17 on March 23, 2010,
Stephen Young said… - Cool see you there. Would love to catch up on how SxSW went.
- At 16:39 on November 18, 2009, Stephen Young said…
- Yeah he is still coding, Ruby on Rails stuff. You going to the event next week? Would be cool to catch up.
PS. Where in Kenya are you doing your music thing? I have a few friends that love there. Awesome country!
- At 14:44 on October 9, 2009,
Justin Stanford said… - DM/LinkedIn/FB me and we'll find a time
- At 15:54 on September 9, 2009,
Jason Bagley said… - Haha! Only when the d*** thing is blown up does it look dodgy... D***, maybe I should do the whole model thing like Adii - get some pro photos. :)
- At 15:47 on September 9, 2009, Jason Bagley said…
- Loving the corporate avatar. Nice.
- At 14:14 on September 9, 2009, Justin Stanford said…
- My word, I think you're the first person to have a customised profile up on here, within minutes of it's launch! ;)
Charl Norman's Blog
Video interview with Rob Stokes, founder of Quirk.
Rob Stokes has built one of South Africa’s most successful digital agencies – Quirk. BWB video takes you inside what it’s like running a mega multi-national agency. Click play below for the interview and you will find the full transcript here: …
ContinuePosted on April 5, 2012 at 22:56
Interview with Web Africa founder Matthew Tagg
In the mid 90s, while still in high school, Matthew Tagg founded Web Africa, one of South Africa’s leading ISPs. We sat down with Matt and spoke about his humble beginnings selling hardware to generate funds to bootstrap his ambitions for starting an ISP with partner Rupert Bryant. We discover how they went from ducking out of…
ContinuePosted on February 28, 2012 at 21:30 — 1 Comment
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