Tag Archives: mxit

How Twitter is changing lives on the Cape Flats and beyond

Over the last two years Twitter had a very big impact on the lives of many in the RLabs community on the Cape Flats. The journey with this micro-blogging platform started in 2008 when a number of young men and women were introduced to … Continue reading

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RLabs Mobile Services

October has been a busy month providing support to thousands via the RLabs mobile services (Angel on MXit and DAS@jamiix.im). Both these services are unique in that it offer subscribers to these channels a wide range of social services that they can … Continue reading

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JamiiX: Using Mobile Phones and Cloud Computing to Change Lives

The last week has been exciting at RLabs as their JamiiX counselling team have been working hard in changing the world one message at a time. JamiiX is a cloud-based solution allowing its users to manage conversations via various Social Network … Continue reading

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Drug Advice and Support hits 100k

In 2008 I was part of a team that launched a online mobile chat platform for drug users. This chat platform gives them an opportunity  to chat with the services’”counsellors” when they feel the urge to use drugs. Last week … Continue reading

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Blog from MXit to WordPress or Chisimba

Have you ever thought about blogging from your not so ‘smartphone’ where you don’t have a simple to use WordPress app to make blogging available at your fingertips? If you answered yes OR can if you can imagine life without … Continue reading

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Latest Social Media in numbers

Below is a guest blog post from RLabs (11 June 2010)… AS we continue seeing the rise and growth of Social Media accross various industries, it is clear that we are seeing large volumes joining the bandwagon. Below we share some … Continue reading

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Mobile Phones for Social Change reaches 130,000

Guest Post by Rlabs: With the celebration of drug awareness week in conjunction with MXit, RLabs increased its counsellor capacity and had a massive growth in the Angel user numbers. Angel is an information portal providing support to users in the areas of … Continue reading

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Angel on MXit supports over 23,000

Guest post by Rlabs Another exciting project that RLabs have been involved in has been the Angel on MXit project where we offer people support and advice in the areas of substance abuse, abuse, depression, debt counselling,stress and coping via their mobile … Continue reading

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Business going mobi

Business goes mobi View more presentations from Clinton Liederman.

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