GO 2010
Part of my portfolio was taking charge of the online and mobile 2010 World Cup products for Avusa Media. This included the Go 2010 project, a WC2010 news and information portal, the first ever digital group project for Avusa Media. It is powered by all Avusa Media online titles: Times LIVE, Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Dispatch, The Herlad, Sowetan, and Sunday World.
Official Press release: Avusa launches World Cup website
TIMES LIVE
In 2009 my team and I were heavily involved in the successful launch of the award winning Times LIVE website, the re-branded and re-designed digital home of the Sunday Times and TheTimes – having further re-developed and re-designed the award winning Times LIVE Mobile site, Times LIVE Multimedia, as well as Times LIVE Blogs.
Official Press release: Avusa Media launches Times LIVE
TIMES EXPLORER
SA ELECTIONS
TIMES LIVE MULTIMEDIA
As the former Multimedia Production Editor at The Times I had the chance to work with some fantastic photographers producing some potent multimedia stories.
Click on the image below to see a few of the Multimedia stories I was involved in producing…
JO’S TOOLKIT
Jo’s Toolkit is South Africa’s online student and grassroot journalism community, which provides resources and tools for media practitioners in the fields of writing, editing, design, photography, television, radio and new media.
In 2006, four months after launch, Jo’s Toolkit won the Highway Africa Award for Innovative Use of New Media in Africa.
Jo’s Toolkit was co-founded by myself and Carly Ritz and is currently off-line for maintenance reasons.
Some online reaction:
Highway Africa Awards for Innovative use of New Media
Jo’s Toolkit: a student journalist’s recipe for success
SABC/Highway Africa New Media Awards
PROJECT: PICTURES FOR LIFE
The aim of this project was to channel profit or financial support, initiated by my photographs, back to the Grahamstown community, aiding further development projects. My images reflected and explained certain moments in people’s lives and focused on the development projects initiated by the Centre for Social Development.
Ultimately, this project was my way of giving something back to the community, in return for providing insight into their lives and the initiatives of which they are a part.
In 2005 I was invited to exhibit the project at the Glocal OpenBC event at the World Trade Centre in Rotterdam, and as a solo exhibition during the 2005 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Online coverage of the project / exhibition:
Word, image and the power of Gregor
Rhodes Photographer to exhibit on main Arts Festival programme
NUDJIT
Nudjit (pronounced nudg-it) is Africa’s first social, gadget and technology community.
The site aims to inform, entertain, and alert South Africans about the gadgets that are available to us. Our gadget reviews don’t just highlight the technical aspects but will also judge how well they work, where one can get them, and if our local technology infrastructure can actually support these electronic toys.
The site offers detailed written reviews, quirky video posts, aggregated gadget news from all across Africa, user ratings, and hot links from popular gadget sites from around the world.
Nudjit was co-founded by myself, Justin Hartman and Nic Haralambous.
