Originally posted on Twitter Blanket Drive #TBD2015: Cape Town Host @merentia Fire & Ice Cape Town @FireAndIceCT Charly’s Bakery @CharlysBakery @iCaptainCupcake Voice of the Cape studios @VOCfm @Zahrah_ Love Pilates studio @LovePilatesCT Kronendal Music Academy of Hout Bay @Robyn_Smith @wren_tweetz Anywhere in the Peninsula – @PicUpSA Johannesburg Host @serenacg Fire & Ice Melrose Arch Pretoria Host Stephanie @tresorsstudio Fire & Ice Menlyn Park Durban Host @fredfelton Drop

That’s the headline of a Tweet that caught my attention today. It’s for a competition being run by Real Time Wine. Real Time Wine is a new app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. Their website says “Capture, rate, review and share those amazing moments you have with a wine glass in your hand.” – so essentially making #drunktweets legit in some sense then? (“#drunktweets” is a popular hashtag used on Twitter when social moves to real life and the po

I was trawling through my Twitter timeline this morning and came across a fun tweet WITH a call-to-action! I couldn’t resist and so followed the links into the mystery of what lay beyond. Turns out that #blogsecretsanta (the hashtag used on Twitter) is very simply a Secret Santa concept for blogger and other online enthusiasts around the country – gifting and surprises, 2 of my favourite things combined. Apparently this spontaneous happiness factory has been going on for quit

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All the events in South Africa (#TBDZA) and Zimbabwe (#TBDZW) have been set up on twtvite.com. Please do visit the site and see details of all the events taking place on 26 May 2012. And, more importantly - please RSVP so that we can keep a check on numbers :-) Full list of events: Thanks

The 3rd annual South African national Tweetup for good, #TBDZA (previously known as #TBD), will be held on Saturday, 26 May 2012 at venues around the country. Same time, same date. More details to follow. Details will be posted on the official website: www.twitterblanketdrive.co.za

I've had a lot of enquiries about my new "toy" since I started Tweeting and blogged on The Mother Load about the HP Photosmart 7510. It really is quite a phenomenal little powerhouse, feature-rich and the ink costs aren't as high as you would expect either. There are too many specifications to mention here, so click here to visit the HP site for all the technical details for what this printer has on offer. Some great features online that support the printer are the HP Applica

I love what social media has achieved and can accomplish, even more so when goodie bags are concerned. I present case-in-point my delivery of an HP Photosmart 7510 to test drive for a couple of weeks in the comfort of my own home. It turns out that a fellow tweeter referred the good folk from HP to me as a potential candidate to pre-test their product before it hits the South African store shelves later in December this year. Thanks to this tweet love I now have a couple more

With #TBD events all wrapped for the weekend, it's time to reflect before I report back. Need to remember to celebrate all the good that happened these past months - total strangers coming together to make a difference. There is so much good to reflect on. I'll post an official #TBD report on my blog as well as on www.twitterblanketdrive.co.za by the end of this week.

Thank you to a very over zealous South African Twitter community, the official #TBD website has borked! Here's all the info you need to know about events taking place around the country today. There are 14 events taking place in 4 provinces: Province Area Venue Time Twitter host Gauteng Sandton Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rosebank 6pm – 10pm @MelanieMinnaar Benoni The Coffee Shop, Rynfield 6pm @jackiejvr West Rand SilverStar Casino 6pm @ReneeEverett Pretoria The Blades 6pm @sdiederic

In 2009 I signed up for Twitter. Hardly an early-adopter. I lost interest very quickly as no one was apparently interested in what I had to say, and ‘they’ were downright rude as they didn’t even acknowledge my presence on the social media platform. It took 6 more months before someone explained to me how Twitter worked. It was only in January 2010 that I really started exploring the bustling social media platform. I was on maternity leave, it was a cold autumn day. And as I

The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosebank has been confirmed as the venue for the 4 June Tweetup for the blanket drive in Sandton. The hotel has generously provided a conference room, complete with AV support necessary to make the tweetup a techie success. The tweetup venue is conveniently located in a private area with close access to rest rooms, deck (for smokers) and the hotel bar (in case there is a sporting event on the telly which we've overlooked in selecting the date). The h

The temperature has dropped. The trees are shedding green for gold. And, #TBD is back on... Last year the South African Twitter community raised over 500 blankets in addition to bags full of clothing for less fortunate communities. Over R20,000.00 was also donated directly to selected charities for the drive. Tweeps from all over the country came together on the same day at the same time for a national Tweetup for good. This years' #TBD kicked off about 2 days ago and so far

I've just created a newspaper at www.paper.li. The Mother Load is a weekly paper filled with all things that are of interest to me - and maybe you too. Check it out and let me know what you think of the content.

"I’m not sure who you are, or how I got here but tell me; does my hair look okay?" I entered a 'timewaster' competition on Hurricane Vanessa's blog today and as luck would have it, turns out it wasn't a waste of time at all. The competition was Tweeted by Vanessa Raphaely from her Twitter profile @hurricanevaness (Competition details) and I received an email this evening to say I'd won (Winners' announcement) :-)

Sometimes I wonder whether people who keep up with social media and blogging ever get to read a 'good-old-book' anymore. It would be a great pity if pop culture led to a generation of people who are led and informed only by other people's opinions, and not through their own analysis and conclusions which reflection and investigation provides. Of course it is easier to read a couple of blogs in one day than time would permit to sink your teeth into a decent novel. And, our liv

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