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TechCrunch promotes Silicon Cape: http://tcrn.ch/9sFC2z
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I hung out with Yola’s founder Vinny Lingham while I was in Cape Townlast week and came away impressed for a few reasons. For one thing,this guy knows more about acquiring traffic than a lot of…Continue

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Started this discussion. Last reply by Francis Omokhape oghuma May 18, 2010.

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After such a great launch event in Cape Town it seems that the initiative has gotten legs and is in the starting blocks - well done to all involved.Alot of the SA techies have moved overseas (myself…Continue

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Started this discussion. Last reply by TpRadebe Aug 2, 2011.

 

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Jan 11
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Aug 2, 2011
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Aug 1, 2011
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Apr 1, 2011
Francis Omokhape oghuma replied to Shane Swinton's discussion TechCrunch promotes Silicon Cape: http://tcrn.ch/9sFC2z
"interesting post shane :)"
May 18, 2010
Shane Swinton posted a discussion

TechCrunch promotes Silicon Cape: http://tcrn.ch/9sFC2z

I hung out with Yola’s founder Vinny Lingham while I was in Cape Townlast week and came away impressed for a few reasons. For one thing,this guy knows more about acquiring traffic than a lot of people inSilicon Valley have forgotten. He spent the bulk of his career buildingsearch campaigns for huge multinational companies and made a prettysweet living at it.Read more:…See More
May 18, 2010
Imel Rautenbach replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, us folk in the Gardne Route are forming a IT consortium to pool our resources and pitch for larger contracts on a collective basis. Instead of recruiters getting hold of impossible to find good technical…"
Feb 24, 2010
Anthony Theunissen replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"Great Idea! I'm also gonna jump on the wagon... I'm looking for a reliable freelance PHP Developer to work on a online accommodation site. email me: anthony.theunissen@gmail.com"
Feb 8, 2010
Shane Swinton replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"Hi Richard, Good to hear you are interested in non-agency recruiting. I was involved in launching www.sugarjobs.co.uk here in the UK and it has done pretty well in the IT sector. I would suggest getting in touch with Carolynne Gilbert who owns the…"
Jan 29, 2010
Laura Baasch replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"Interestingly Richard we have a site called www.bizcommunity.com and I find when we advertise there we get some really good responses. The candidates are of a fairly high calibre. Granted in terms of techie recruitment - I'm blessed enough to…"
Jan 29, 2010
Richard Stobart replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"As an employer in the UK we don't use agencies for our technical placements for the reasons that others have listed below. We do occasionally post jobs on http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com and have had a good selection of high quality candidates…"
Jan 13, 2010
Laura Baasch replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"Hi All I'm looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer. Don't suppose you know anybody? Job's based in Cape Town CBD. Salary highly negotiable. Anyone itnerested please do contact me."
Jan 7, 2010

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Media geek, well sort of :-)
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What is your current activity, project or occupation?
I have helped launched SugarJobs more recently and now work within the EU OEM sector of www.jsp.com as Online Marketing Specialist managing the corp and product online activities across Europe.

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At 5:19 on April 3, 2010, Francis Omokhape oghuma said…
Tanks for d kind words.lets talk more sir.
best of luck !
At 10:42 on September 29, 2009, Hakim said…
Like your job initiative...
 
 
 

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