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Exciting Week awaiting RLabs »

This coming week is one with so many exciting things happening at RLabs. Expecting many new innovative events happening this week:
- Monday the Social Media Factory will be doing training with a national non-profit SCAT implementing their Social Media Strategy.
- Tuesday the team will be running a Social Media training session for Small Businesses as [...]

Social Media in Khayelitsha with our partners Silulo »

Today the RLabs team was at Silulo Ulutho Technologies out in Khayelitsha (Cape Town’s largest township). The RLabs team was divided into two groups to co-facilitate with the Silulo Ulutho Technologies staff at two of their training centres. This was the follow-up of last week’s session.
The trainers did their first Socail Media session [...]

Social Media Surgery with iGeek »

Last week Saturday the RLabs team had the privilege of hosting Gerhard Potgieter from iGeek fame who workshopped monetizing your blog. The Social Media Surgery took a slightly different structure to our last one as it was more focussed on developing the team to develop a sustainable Social Media model for Communities in Tension. Some [...]

World Bank Global Youth Forum »

Yesterday I had the opportunity to share with other global pioneers at the ongoing Global Anti-Corruption Youth Forum in Brussels, Belgium, and to the 5th eLearning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia. The three-hour interactive discussion focused on the issue of education, governance and youth. Participants from Malawi, Kenya, Burundi, London and Zambia exchanged ideas [...]

RLabs training trainers in Khayelitsha »

Below is an extract from Clinton Liederman’s post who is one of the RLabs trainers at Khayelitsha:
Today team RLabs were out once again doing what they do best, “Reconstructing Communities through Innovation.” The team went out to Khayelitsha at Silulo Ulutho Technologies doing Social Media training with their facilitators. The topics covered on Day [...]