So besides my day job, my mothering duties, my wifely obligations, the publicity requirements for my book* and my normal run of the mill blogging activities (eek! edited to add: and the FET, forgot about that), I am busy with the following new projects:
The first project is a fun initiative I am involved in. A good friend of mine (coincidentally a HC himself, love those HC’s!), Mike Stopforth is a Web 2.0 guru and helps corporates get into this new media gig. Anyhoo, he is working with Samsung South Africa and they have come up with a really cool idea. They gave four South African bloggers each a new Samsung cell phone and asked them to blog about their experience on a specially created blog. We each have to submit at least one blog post a week and then the public are asked to vote which blogger they think deserves to keep their new Samsung phone. Hint hint. GO VOTE FOR ME, I WANT TO KEEP MY NEW PHONE!!! It’s a sexy little black number that I really want to keep as my own. Actually, Marko really really wants that phone.
The
Times
The
Sunday Times, the biggest Sunday newspaper in South Africa have just launched a
new daily publication called The Times.
It's new, different,
exciting and it's interactive
And it’s taking South Africa by storm. Last Tuesday, The Sunday Times, South Africa's biggest selling and best loved Sunday paper, launched a daily edition - The Times.
* Is delivered to the homes of 120 000 Sunday Times subscribers each weekday; this immediately puts The Times among top morning newspapers in terms of circulation.
* Promises
to be South Africa's most interactive newspaper with additional video material,
podcasts and blogs on its website
They have asked myself and four other local bloggers to contribute weekly columns to the paper. About whatever we want to. I am going to write about pretty much what I write about here, just without the F word. It is a family newspaper after all! The good thing about this one is that it is a paid-for gig. My first bit of extra bucks on the side, yay. Every bit helps. (And it really is only a bit.)
Kak Funny
Then,
purely just for laughs and definitely not for money, I’ve joined a handful of
other local bloggers and am writing on a blog called kakfunny.com. About all sorts of arbitrary, silly
shit. I have nothing much in common with
the other bloggers besides the fact that they are South African and have a
great sense of humour, and that I really like them. This is my space to be silly. It is the brainchild of a young man called
Kevin who is extremely funny. And
silly. But he makes me laugh. I am old enough to be his mother, which
doesn’t make me laugh.
Kak Funny are running a competition for the best naked feet – go check it out and submit pics of your feet!
This
one I’ve told you about. It is my
infertility support site. I need to kick
it up a gear, but I haven’t had the time. The forums section is running nicely on its own, but I am looking for
some co writers to author some content for the site. My next project!
So,
that is where you will find other bits of me on the Net. This blog will always be my main home, but
the other sites allow me to explore different parts of my personality. The ‘decent’ side (ala The Times) and the
irreverent side (Kakfunny).
Happy
reading and don’t forget to send us pics of your feet and to vote for me on the Samsung blog. Really want that phone. Would make excellent b/day gift for Marko as HE really wants that phone!
There. That should keep me out of mischief.
Wow. Sounds like quite a load of projects.
Speaking of which: What ever happened to your friend Harrison? I'm still curious to know how he reacted. :o)
Posted by: Ute | 14 June 2007 at 01:19 PM
Yay for paid blogging!
And also? You're a phone whore. But your SAMSUNGISGREAT post over at the LOOKHOWCOOLSAMSUNGGADGETSARE site was funny.
Posted by: Orange | 14 June 2007 at 03:40 PM
Tertia dear... if you are old enough to be my mother, it means you had me when you were 14. That's pretty young, I jest you not.
At least your readers won't give you shit about having babies too old, or thinking that 40 is a bad time to have one ;)
Oh, and did you stay at the Sandton City Garden Court? Man I've spent so much time there, they know me personally. Haha.
Posted by: Kevin Cadman | 14 June 2007 at 04:03 PM
Damn, girl-- you are busy.
GL with all the projects. So cool that I read you before you became a national columnist and all that... :)
Posted by: JuliaKB | 14 June 2007 at 04:14 PM
Tertia, you are truly divine. Love you. Worry that you are taking on way too much, but love you nevertheless. And so, with the utmost respect and a little trepidation, I must admit that the Samsung thing is a bit unnerving. But I guess that's how I feel in general about the corporatization of things I love. Wish it weren't so. :(
Posted by: Sarah | 14 June 2007 at 05:01 PM
Hi. You don't know me, I'm just a random 20-year-old student from Scotland, but I accidentally found your blog a few weeks back and have been coming back every few days. It's a really interesting blog to read and I enjoy it. Just wanted to say hello.
Les
Posted by: Les | 14 June 2007 at 07:20 PM
Yay for you having 80% of the vote to keep your phone right now!!
Posted by: Ashlee | 14 June 2007 at 11:03 PM
Bloody hell. I forget whether you are on happy pills or not but if you are "I'll have what she's having"
Posted by: Heather G | 14 June 2007 at 11:57 PM
So, does this mean you're too busy to post pics of your new G & D teeth? ;)
Posted by: Dani | 15 June 2007 at 03:31 PM
sheesh t... i dunno how you fit it all in!!!
Posted by: angel | 16 June 2007 at 02:40 PM