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Archive for January, 2008

Global South Africans project

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Carel

Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa

The Global South Africans (GSA) project recently launched their website. Quoted from the Welcome page: GSA is a growing network of talented and successful South Africans who live abroad but still feel deeply attached to the country and want to contribute to the country’s growth and success. The initiative is being spearheaded by the International [...]

SAP HCM Consulting companies

Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Carel

Filed under HCM, SAP

I’ve had numerous requests from business partners for a comprehensive list of SAP HCM consulting companies in the USA. My aim in this post is to give you a comprehensive list — let me know if I missed one. Pure-play SAP HCM companies: EPI-USE: EPI-USE America, based in Atlanta, GA, is my former employer and [...]

tumblr – My tumblelog http://beyond438.tumblr.com/

Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Carel

Filed under Blogging, Technology

I’m using tumblr.com to blog about interesting web items. These are typically a link with one or two sentences of text. Do you have a tumblelog? How do you use it?

Top posts of 2007 – South Africa’s wealthiest, SolarCity, SAP Business ByDesign and Elon Musk of SpaceX

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Carel

Filed under Business

Here are the list of the most read post on my blog in 2007: South Africa’s wealthiest people in 2007 – Most read post by a factor of 5! Lyndon Rive – Green energy CEO of SolarCity. Nice article in today’s San Francisco Business Times. SAP’s on demand/SaaS ERP solution, codenamed A1S Elon Musk of [...]

SoCon08 – Web 2008 in 1.5 days

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Carel

Filed under Blogging, Business, Technology

I attended SoCon07 last year and really enjoyed it. SoCon08 will be held at the University of Kennesaw, just North of Atlanta from February 8-9, 2008. You can register here. It’s not free like ’07 — this year it’s $43 for the full 1.5 days (including a Networking Dinner) or $15 for the Saturday. It’s [...]