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Talooma’s Christmas Party entitled Drunk and Disorderly

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Friday was Talooma’s official Christmas Party. What had initially been a nightmare in terms of logistics, location and even weather, ended up being an awesome sunny day and a jol! We played tennis, squash, ate (had a spit), drank, drank some more and a few of us even swam (one of clothed and one of us in our underwear but I wont mention any names) :)

Judy delegated the food arrangements and organised chicken and lamb on the spit for lunch! All the girls contributed to bringing chips and dips, breads, and salad.. We even had malva pudding for dessert – thanks Judy!

Before lunch we had a session of speeches from management about the year etc and Judy (our production manager) had a few special words for each of us :) We were also asked to say a few words and there were some tears shed (amongst all the laughter and interruptions) for Lerato.

Secret Santa went off really well.. I think.. I was worried my present wasn’t going to be good enough but all in all it worked out in the end.. I got a horse calendar for 2011 from Judy – totally amazing!! The best present given was to our MD Desmond who was given a book entitled “1001 ways to reward your staff” from the Sales Director Ceri! Nice one..

I wanted to wait for a few of the photos to add to this before I published it ;) and here we go:

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22.11.2010 Experiences, Reviews 2 Comments

Good Die Young – RIP Lerato

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Good die young – a song by D12 that holds true for Lera. Lerato “Lera” Tshabalala was killed in a tragic motorbike accident on Saturday morning (9 October 2010). Motorbikes were his passion, his Skype status read “cars move your body, motorbikes move your soul”. He died doing what he loved.

I found out about his passing from a phone call with my boss on Monday. I was in shock and have been in mourning since. Lerato was too young to die. I found him inspirational in a way he will now never know – for his passion for life.

Lerato was a multi media designer as part of the team at our place of work – Talooma (previously known as JD Consulting). He was an incredibly talented designer. This man was full of spunk and tenacity, was always smiling and was incredibly likeable and easy to get on with – which would account for his many friends.

Today was Lerato’s funeral in Jo’burg. I wish I could have been there. Although I didnt know Lerato as well as I wanted to, its important to attend the funeral – it respectful. Mark attended on my behalf and passed on my messages of condolence to the family. He also bought yellow roses (at my request) to throw onto the coffin and shared them with those from Talooma who had also attended.

I wasnt there but I know it was incredibly sad and many could not keep it together. I started crying again when Mark told me about one of Lera’s friends revved and bounced his bike as the coffin was being lowered into the grave and how emotions flowed thereafter. What a powerful send off…

I had my own quite farewell today. I walked down to a beautiful spot on thebeach inbetween the rocks and wrote his name in the sand. I watched it slowly being washed away but the waves. It was my little way of saying goodbye.

Lerato, judging by the number of people at your funeral and the messages left on your Facebook status, you were a legend :) and you will be sorely missed.

Musa (friend and collegue) summed it up so well with his Facebook status: I heard him singing “Dear mamma don’t cry, your baby boy’s doing good, tell the homies I’m in heaven an they ain’t got hoods” – Thugz Mansion

Read his online Talooma profile here >>

13.10.2010 Thoughts No Comments

The Yellow Launch

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

It has been a week since the launch of our new company name and brand.. TheYellow Launch was the process that lead up the actual event to which a number of our valued clients where invited and to which the only prelude was an event and the colour yellow mentioned all over the place..

8 September 2010 marked the launch of a new online digital agency which has been around for over 10 years in the web industry under a number of different company names namely: Africa Outdoors, Cybertrenz and most recently, JD Internet Consulting.

The launch had a three main goals: one, to introduce the new brand and name and colours, and two, to introduce all of the individual members of the team to those who attended, to put a name to a face as most correspondance is done “online” :) Last but not least, to introduce the new tools of the trade, as it were, as developed by the star of the company and the SEO department, Nick Duncan, known as TOM. Jonathan Housten, the online marketing manager, introduced the various components of this new online marketing tool, which is set to benefit and grow the SEO/SMO client base and revenue, and to improve the service offering of this new Digital Marketing Agency.

The main components of this sytem are as follows:

  • Enquiry Control – manages all the enquiries sent through the clients’ website
  • Copy Centre – enables clients to liase with our talented copywriter about events and news within the company
  • Rank Checker – shows up to date keyword rankings
  • Scatalyst – allows clients to send though updates for posting on any of the social media platforms

More tools and improvements on the above are in the pipeline… Watch this space: tools.talooma.com/tom

The rest of the lauch consisted of mingling, platters, drinks and yellow cupcakes..

A lot of work went into this launch, the new website, new CI, new developments and tools.. All resulting in a well planned and successful event as many of our clients concurred..

So the moral of this whole story:

JD Internet Consulting is now and forever more to be known as “talooma” with a small “t”.. and its just the beginning for this young dynamic crazy team.. :)

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15.09.2010 Thoughts 1 Comment