Its been an interesting week on twitter. And its not even over! We’ve seen the launch/re-launch of 3 SA initiatives and the motivation/incentive behind user interest and uptake has been of interest to me.

As a recap:

No 1: The relaunch of www.women24.com. Congrats to the team for a great new look. They ran a fun RT Twitter campaign with a Woolies R1000.00 voucher. I’d be interested to know what return they saw in a. new registrations and b. no of RT’s, but from a voting community of just over 600 people 46% have said that the new design is fab!

No 2: The launch of www.womenshealthsa.co.za Congrats to Touchline and Cerebra for this great new space. It has been noted that this is a 1st iteration release, so perhaps thats the reason for not shouting out about it too much or running anything promotional in social media channels just yet. I have no doubt that there is something exciting and engaging planned.

No 3: And finally the space that saw a network member uptake of 300 people in 24 hours (and growing), www.siliconcape.com. Interesting that with little to no planned promotion the uptake took a life of its own, and I am attributing that to the fact that the SA twitter community is made up of tech/online/media enthusiasts so it is an appropriate natural adoption and because its something new that holds promise. I look forward to being a part of this community and having a space to contribute to the growth of the #SiliconCape.

So there, in the week of 09.09.09, three big SA networks surfaced. Nice!