Dave Duarte
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Collaborative un-marketing in the digital age

Stewart Brand, at the first hackers conference in 1984, famously said: On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information want...

Many of the most popular websites in the world offer a free service, yet are hugely profitable. Free search from Google; free messaging with MXit; free news from Mail & Guardian Online, even free photocopies! Most people who use them haven't eve...

The idea of authentic co-creation is quite obviously the most important shift that is happening in marketing and strategy today. It is a move away from centralised control of communications and branding to a more decentralised, user-oriented approach...

As the amount of new information produced in the world every day escalates, so I find my attention span decreasing in equal and opposite proportion. As more people in South Africa start publishing their own media online -- on Facebook, blogs, vide...

Estate Agency has been referred to as a “walled garden“, in other words an industry that is criticized as being based on asynchronous information between the agent and the buyers/sellers. Making money by getting in the way. Many major online e...





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Dave Duarte is an internet and mobile marketing educator and entrepreneur.

He is MD of Huddlemind, an education and research organisation that provides blended learning solutions to numerous multinational corporations.

Dave is also founder and director of two Executive Education programmes at UCT Graduate School of Business: Nomadic Marketing and Mobile Marketing.

He lectures on the Executive MBA programme at UCT GSB, as well as on an undergraduate management studies programme at UCT.

Dave’s non-profit appointments include:

* Dean of the Digital Media Faculty at The Maharishi Institute of Management (a free university founded by Taddy Blecher, and endorsed by international icons such as Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama)

* He is Public Lead for Creative Commons (CC) South Africa (CC is a non-profit that offers a set of free customizable digital licenses that have been applied more than 200 million times globally)

His other projects include:

* Co-founder of the 27dinner (a free monthly event that runs nationally on the 27th of every month)

* Co-owner of Muti.co.za (Africa’s most popular online social bookmarking application)

Dave won the “Best Business Blog” category at the 2009 SA Blog Awards.

He is rated as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Media and Advertising people in South Africa by Jeremy Maggs in “The Annual“.
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