Mike Stopforth

LinkedIn
Social Networking for business
(tags: web2.0 socialsoftware socialnetworks networking network)

geekdinner / JoziGeekDinner
Stormhoek brings the Geek Dinner concept to Johanessburg. Nifty!
(tags: Stormhoek wine Johannesburg SouthAfrica Africa blogging blogs bloggers)

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Social Networks: Execs Use Them Too
BusinessWeek reports on the use of LinkedIn in the enterprise.
(tags: business linkedin network networking social socialnetworks socialsoftware web2.0 wisdomofcrowds)

The Craft of Connection
Organizational network analysis is helping companies share knowledge worldwide, one natural broker at a time.
(tags: ONA SNA km knowledgemanagement collaboration enterprise2.0 socialsoftware socialnetworks)

Feature on Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us
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One of the themes that popped up at the recent Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging was making money from blogging. Alec Hogg, in his address to the delegates, spoke to the fact that it has never been easier to ‘micro-publish’ and earn money from it, provided you can differentiate yourself, generate some significant traffic [...]

Wikipedia says “Craigslist is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.”
So why the heck don’t we use it (asks Jon)? Or do you? Tell me if you do and if it [...]

A few days ago I wrote about LinkedIn - the web-based social networking tool with a business application.
I hadn’t realised that just three days before that BusinessWeek Online had run a story on the ever-increasing use of social networking tools like LinkedIn in companies titled Social Networks: Execs Use Them Too.
From the article:
Recruiters at Microsoft [...]

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Exploring, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

My little man on walkabout…

I’m a young, white South African who sells social software solutions to corporate South Africa. I call myself a blogger, this is my blog.
You’ll understand why then, when I heard that “Africa’s first citizen media and blogging conference” was being held in Grahamstown, South Africa, that I wanted to be involved. [...]

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Leaving Gtown, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

At 6am.