Last night was a cause for celebration at the 10th annual SABC/Highway Africa Innovative Use of New Media Awards (broadcast live on satellite) where two of our 4th-year new media students, Gregor Rohrig and Carly Ritz won an award in the Non-Profit category for their excellent local journalism portal Jo’s Toolkit.

I have spoken about Jo’s Toolkit before and as many of you will know there is a fair amount of personal pride attached to this project as I helped initiate it. I look forward to many more great things from these students.

On a slightly unrelated note, the Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging kicks off in under 24 hours. A blog has been setup for the event, where we will be posting pictures and podcasting, along with a Wiki so check it out! The Indaba has received a lot of attention from the mainstream press and I’m fast becoming sick and tired of explaining what a blog is ‘to the audience’. The one exception was the live interview I had on SAfm last night with Tracy Going who had actually taken the time to research the topic and asked some very good questions.

Right now it’s back to arranging logistics and preparing my opening speech… wish us luck!