Dell SA Development Fund coming to our rescue

Last week Friday DELL SA Development Fund came to our rescue by delivering our Servers and laptops for the Drug Advice Support project. This donation means that we can extend our service hours now from Monday to Thursday (4-6pm)and Saturday (4-6pm). The Athlone Living Lab (ALL) would like to thank DELL SA Development Fund for this contribution that would make a difference in the lives of many individuals who are impacted by the scourge of substance abuse.

Latest Media List

Below find a list of links to online news, portals and blogs about the reconstruction project. We need to spread the word that technology can be used to make a difference in the lives of people.

2009

Business Week (20 August 2009)

New Scientist (19 August 2009)

Mobile Active (27 July 2009)

mLearning Africa (17 June 2009)

The Times (15 June 2009)

My Broadband News (15 June 2009)

Mail & Guardian (12-18 June 2009)

Cape Times (10 June 2009)

CPUT Online Publishing (3 June 2009)

The Herald (30 May 2009)

The Weekend Post (30 May 2009)

East Coast News (April 2009)

Athlone News (8 April 2009)

NMMU (20 March 2009)

Digital Edge (March 2009)

Die Burger (10 March 2009)

Cosmopolitan (March 2009)

Daily News (6 Feb 2009)

Fair Lady (January 2009)

The Vessel Newspaper 11 January 2009

Today Magazine (January 2009)

2008

The Weekend Post (20 December 2008)

Athlone News (17 December 2009)

Weekend Post (29 Nov 2008)

Die Burger

People's Post

Die Son (Cape) 4 November 2008

Witness (4 November 2008)

News24

Biz Community

NGO Pulse news

IT Web (9 October 2008)

Business Daily

DigiActive

Athlone News (1 October 2009)

http://www.sabcnews.com/features/report_on_highway_africa/html/indaba.html

Die Burger

Athlone NewsPg3_20Aug2008

CPUT Website

http://highwayafrica.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/microblogs-help-addicts-get-clean/

http://mobbedbymedia.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/blogging-rehab/

http://www.zoopy.com/blog/detail/id/12064

http://www.pverweij.hu.nl/HighwayAfrica/?p=473

http://www.pverweij.hu.nl/HighwayAfrica/?p=443

http://dci.ru.ac.za/article.php?ssID=27&aID=75

http://bushradionews.blogspot.com/2008/09/popular-chat-service-used-to-counsel.html

http://www.zoopy.com/blog/detail/id/12116

Storypot: A writer's online journal

Pambazuka News

News from Africa

IPP Media

Debt Counselling as close as your cellphone

Debt Breaker featured today in The Herald and Weekend Post newspapers in the Eastern Cape as we continue expanding our services to consumers accross the country. The article “Debt counselling as close as your cellphone” already managed to attract many consumers to the service and we know this is only the beginning.

YOUR fancy top-of-the-range cellphone might be able to help you in all sorts of ways these days, but you probably never imagined it could offer debt counselling.

However, with the global credit crunch and South Africa now officially in recession, you might only have to look as far as your cellphone to find answers to your debt problems.

A South African entrepreneur has developed an innovative cellphone service called Debt Breaker which can be used by over-indebted consumers to access advice and support remotely through MXit, Google Talk, Fring, Nimbuzz, Mig33 and other chat applications. Read the article here

First Week with the new Drug Advice Support (DAS)

Today was the first week with our new DAS hours and it was interesting to see the number of conversations and users who were seeking support for substance abuse or social related issues. The new DAS hours of operation are Mondays to Thursdays and Saturdays 4 to 6pm. The following were the number of users per day for this week:

Monday: 93 users
Tuesday: 114 users
Wednesday: 86 users
Thursday 101 users
Saturday 59 users

The number of users serviced this week were a total of 453 users. The numbers were lower than our normal average per day but the conversations were more meaningful as we had a number of serious users who were in desperate need. The new hours are all thanks to the DELL South African Development Fund's donation that we received last week.

The Do's and Don'ts of Social Media

Do's and dont's of Social Media

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You 2.0: Three Steps to being a Socialite

This morning I was privileged to join the Reconstructed Session presenting a talk titled You 2.0: Three steps to being a Socialite. The key team steps shared with the guys was that they have to Create, Share and Engage as part of being a socialite.

Seeing the New Reconstructed group enaging with social media (See picture above) and starting this journey is really excited under the leadership of Craig Ross and Brent Williams.

You 2.0: Three Steps to being a Socialite

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