FB community honours murdered Professor

This afternoon, Professor Mike Larkin of UCT’s law department will be laid to rest in Rondebosch. He was stabbed and murdered for the briefcase he was carrying home from work last Friday evening, most likely resisting because of the exam scripts therein. From what I have heard and read of Prof. Larkin over the last week, the inconvenience the loss of these scripts would cause his students was probably foremost in his mind, instead of his own safety.

You might wonder why I am writing about this here on a blog about political marketing and new media (not withstanding the warning in my first blog that I might climb on a political soapbox from time to time), and not as a contribution to the DA’s Eye on Crime blog. There are two reasons…

Groups, Pages and Politicians – marketing the DA on Facebook

I’ve been playing around with the new developments in Facebook (you can read about them here). I set up a ‘Democratic Alliance’ page. First problem with Facebook (clearly due to the US focus on the personality rather than the party): ‘Political Party’ isn’t an option in the organisation types when you create your page. I had to select ‘Non-profit’ as the closest description…