Entrepreneurship Class

At the same time we had the Entrepreneurship class happening where young minds fed off our very own  Craig Ross one off  Mail & Guardian top 200 Young South Africans.  Craig took the participants through a process of thinking big and how important innovation is for your brand. Most of them have small businesses and is looking to grow and take their businesses to the next level.

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Today RLabs with their  Social Media Factory team  was out at College of Cape Town. The purpose of the visit was to do a Social Media Surgery at their Career Expo 2011.  A Social Media Surgery is where we take our team to the public and introduce people to Social Media and people  can come and ask our surgeons  question regarding Social Media.

It was a career expo so in this case student could come and asked us questions on how they can use Social Networks with their studies. The big question that was asked “how can we use Social Media in a business” or can we start a business with all these tools. The team also did some live streaming and live updates about the career expo and it only took us 15 minutes to get College of Cape Town trending on twitter

You can click here to view more pictures of the event

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We were tested this week on our knowledge of what we have learnt over the past few months about Entrepreneurship with Ahmed Kajee. For the first time the atmosphere in class seemed to be very tense and as students we are so use to a relaxed and fun time in class.

All the participants were studying hard this week to make a good impression on Ahmed and they felt fairly relieved when the tests was over. Ahmed however, made it easy for us by allowing us to use notes that he gave just took away all the strain of remembering everything he taught for the past four months. When the test was over and done with, everyone seemed very positive about the outcome and can’t wait for the results. Not me though, you know the feeling after writing a test and you just know that you struggled and you just not sure, thats how I felt but I am optmistic

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Content:
This one day training “hands-on” workshop will cover the following areas:
1. Background to Social Media and tools such as blogs, wikis, micro-blogs, wikis, and multimedia file-sharing sites
2. Provide guidelines to how your business can utilise and reap the benefits of social media
3. Practical opportunities for participants to engage with some of the Social Media tools
4. Social Media and mobile phones

Objectives:
• Understanding of Social Media and its context
• Identified tools that could be integrated into the business sector to support its vision and objectives
• Introductory level of hands-on experience using social media tools
• To use mobile phones as possible social media devices
• Understand the importance of Social media for Businesses
Workshop info:
All required equipment will be provided for the workshop and this includes all refreshments for the day. The price of the workshop is R500.00 for the day or RSVP your seat info@rlabs.org with the code RLABS SMTraining  by the 16 May 2011.

Workshop Details:

Price: R500.00
Date: 30 May 2011
Time: 8:30am – 16:00
Address: RLabs , 66 Tarentaal Road, Bridgetown,Athlone, 7764

Contact persons: Monique Ross or Brent Williams

Contact Number: 021 6991453

Email: info@rlabs.org

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“On the plains of hesitation lies the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lied down to rest, and in resting, died”, a quote Ahmed shared, challenging us to think differently and helping us to do more and to deliver better services to clients but for me personally to also pursue relentlessly our dreams and to not give up. After listening this quote I felt like I could really pursue my dreams.

We are coming to a close with our first Entrepreneurship program for the year and were just informed, that we are being tested later in June to see what we understand about the topic, so we will be hitting the Entrepreneurship books soon.

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Every second Friday the day has been set a side for RLabs staff development. The request for today was “Art of Mobile Counselling“. The facilitator for the session was Craig Ross he started of by saying that we wont be doing Art of Mobile Counselling because being the world first mobile counselors  we should know everything that a mobile counselor should have in his or her toolbox. Instead we will have another brainstorming session which we will compile as a Art of Mobile Counselling booklet and e-book.

The session of today was more about understanding the functionalities and icons of the JamiiX system. We also covered  the role that the Pro/Admin person should have while managing the Drug Advice and Support (DAS) exchange. Our Drug Advice and Support service is currently supporting more than 300 thousand people.  DAS is currently running from Monday - Thursday between 3pm and 5pm.

You can add our contact via Mxit:

MXit:

Go to contacts: Select Jabber; Jabber ID = exchange identifier  das@jamiix.im; Display name  DAS; Accept Contact.

If you want to know more about the software that DAS is running  from go to www.jamiix.com for more information.

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I had the privilage of representing this branch at a conference run by Living Labs in Southern Africa at the RLabs headquartes in Athlone, Cape Town on 1st & 2nd March 2011. It was a success considering that all present Living Labs shared their information freely in order to grow together.

Present at the conference were: Siyakhula Living Lab from Rhodes University; RLabs, the hosts; RLabs Rhini; North West Living Lab; ENoLL who was representing Open Living Labs and Living Labs Global and LAUREA a member of the Europian  Network of Living Labs.

The first day the different Labs shared how they were established and the kind of challenges they are facing as a Lab. On the second day RLab facilitators shared Social Media information and the importance of the way forward as the LLiSA Network to get maximum publicity using the Social Media Tools.

I spent Thursday and Friday with the RLabs’ team. From that information we are starting our work in a week’s time. RLabs Rhini’s first generation of trainees will work over a period of 28 days which will be broken into fourteen weeks. That is, four months. We will introduce them on the uses of communication websites and I hope my hometown will gain from my trip to Cape Town.

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The topic of the morning was Sales and one of the fundamental things emphasized by Ahmed is the importance of delivering on your promises and believing in your product. So whether you delivering a service or selling a product, you have to deliver as promised. Everyone is immediately taken by the wisdom that flows from the 34 year old successful business man and even when he was challenged in a debate about sales, the man won hands down, there is clearly no substitute for experience. Everyone participated in the discussions and feels that they gain so much more knowledge in the discussions.

So what have I taken from the session? Entrepreneurship is fun and exciting and at the same time lots of hard work, but we are all learning and receiving guidance from a successful Entrepreneur, thanx Ahmed Kajee for sacrificing your time.

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The class had to be split into two because of the amount of participants, so myself, Rene and Gary Saaiman doing one class and Brent, Angelo and Tamzin Martin doing the other class. Tamzin and Gary being last years graduates and champions from our communities. Both started classes started a welcome and a check in, where everyone had to share a bit about themselves and their expectations of the course.  Than a short presentation on what Social Media really is and than we an even shorter presentation on Gmail, where after they had to create their own email accounts, which was really fun for all.

The evening ended pretty much the same way it started, with so much enthusiasm and excitement going round and it was very pleasing to see the participants not wanting to leave when the class came to an end, makes us at Rlabs look forward to the next one.

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Some of the feedback that I received from those attending the class was, “Ahmed makes you feel comfortable but also challenges your mindset, he creates a very positive atmosphere and you never feel left out of the class” and others were saying, “he so passionate about Entrepreneurship and he makes one feel the same way and that the work is very informative”.

He brings to the table his own experience in business which makes the program so much more exciting that those attending cant wait for the next class. He has about five successful businesses and is always looking for the next deal. Some of the quotes I took form the last class is ” always stay true to yourself, never rip people off and know your worth.

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