The Strategy Director at work sent out a mail asking us what our predictions was for digital marketing trends in 2009. That got me thinking and I wrote and email back with a few thing that I could think of at that moment.

The result was mixed responses to the ideas which confirmed some of my thoughts and also made me rethink some of the other ideas I had.
I decided to publish the revised list here. This will allow us to check back later in the year to see how close I was with these predictions.

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Not so long ago, I wrote an entry about working on the Red Bull Big Wave Africa 2008 site.

Today, the main team that worked on the site all got these awesome gifts from Red Bull. I will try and explain, but I also attached three pictures at the bottom of this post so that you can see what it looks like.

Its basically a nice wooden box, with the coordinates of Dungeons (the place where the Big Wave Africa takes place) printed on the lid. In the box is a towel with the BWA 2008 logo printed on it! I am so stoked with this.. I’m loving it!

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A big thank you goes out to Red Bull and Stonewall+

OK, so I recently got the great opportunity to build an entire site in WordPress.

WordPress is a fee open source content management system that is primarily used for blogs (This blog was also created using WordPress)

I don’t want to bore you with all the nerdy detail of exactly how I built it, but what I am going to say is that I used a couple of plug ins to make WordPress behave in the way I wanted it to and then I also wrote a couple of PHP functions to do one or two small generic tasks on the site.

All things considered, I am very proud of this one! WordPress Go!

You can see the site here:

http://www.pasco.co.za

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how cool my work really is, working for Stonewall+ I get to work on some big brands and some really cool projects.

A good example of this is off course the Red Bull Big Wave Africa (which happened yesterday, the 26th of July).

I specifically asked to be part of this project because I was part of the team who worked on it last year as well. To be honest at one point I wished I wasn’t in on the “action”, but everything turned out great and I’m ready to step up to the plate again in 2009 if the opportunity presents itself.

The official press release for the event:

http://www.bizcommunity.com/PressOffice/PressRelease.aspx?i=117300&ai=26715

The official site:

http://www.redbullbwa.com