The WTF Media Conference

For the past 12 years the Cape Peninsula University of Technology organised an annual media conference. This year the Wednesday Thursday Friday Media Conference took place from 20 - 22 October 2010 at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The conference was hosted by well-known pioneers in social media, mobile media and clouding computing.

Various guest speakers presented on various interesting topics, some of the topics presented were;
• Mark Horner – Using Open-Everything And Social Media To Support the Teaching
Value Chain
• Jarred Cinman - From Websites to Digital Presences: the changing landscape
of marketing and media in the digital age
• Andy Hadfield - Online Reputation Management: 10 considerations for shaping
your strategy
• Daniel Neville – Crowdsourcing and Its Effect On The Marketing And
Communications Industry
• Paul Stafford – The Cloud: A South African Success Story
• Eran Eyal – Crowdsourcing: traveling beyond the barriers of Social Media
space
• Shel Israel - Twitterville People
• And many many more.

What amazed me most about this conference is that technology is becoming a part of our daily lives that soon before we know it everything we do will be related to technology. Social media is the “in thing” and if you are not part of it you are losing out.

This conference was a success and all thanks goes to the organising committee for broadening our knowledge on this. We can surely benefit a lot from it both personally and professionally.