Mike Stopforth

I had the pleasure of spending an evening seated next to Ravi Naidoo, founder of Interactive Africa, the Design Indaba and the brain behind successes HIP2B2 and South Africa’s 2010 Word Cup Bid at an SAB function the other evening.
Ravi is one of those unique beings who has the ability to draw you, almost instantaneously, [...]

* This article appeared in the Citizen newspaper on 24 June 2006 [Link].
You might have heard of Bill Gates. If you’ve kept up with breaking news you’ll know that Bill announced that he would be “gradually” stepping down from his full time role as chief software architect at his monolithic brainchild, Microsoft. By July 2008, [...]

“The essential thing in ‘heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Thanks to all the bloggers (Jon, Dave, Conrad, etc.) who helped spread the word about the SAB bead4need apprentice challenge.
The bead4need team was just one of the four or five syndicates that put their brains and their networks together to raise funds for charity as part of their management development programme.
I am [...]

* This article appeared on the Biz-Community website on 20 June 2006 [Link].
One of the many reasons I like Firefox - the free, open source web browser - is that the community supporting Firefox continually comes up with little applications, called extensions, that through a simple installation process add great functionality to my browsing experience. [...]

I picked up on a great Fortune article on the CNNMoney.com site about MySQL, the open-source software designers, over the weekend.  It unpacks the dynamics of this completely decentralised organisation, and just what makes it tick as well as it does. 
This, according to the article, is a challenge facing many companies - new [...]

* This article appeared on my MoneyWeb blog on 12 June 2006 [Link].
…and your clicks for free.
Alex Tew is 21 years old, a student from Wiltshire, England. On August 25th of 2005 he launched the Million Dollar Homepage, an ambitious attempt to raise money (according to Alex) for his varsity education.

Quite simply, [...]

I recently presented at an SABMiller Management Development Programme. One of the groups on the programme have taken the bull by the horns and are leveraging social software and viral marketing for maximum reach on a pretty exciting project. Their objective is to raise USD $10,000 before June 16th by auctioning off 3 [...]

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lew

Flummoxed by Web 2.0 terminology? Bamboozled by the jargon? Check out the Giant Glossary of Blogging Terminology.
Citizen marketers continue to have a field day with the Snakes on a Plane meme - now even ‘Bono’ can be seen and heard (the impersonation is brilliant) singing in honour of Samuel L. Jackson [...]