Mike Stopforth

Not all that long ago I was musing about the Stork Blogging Ad on TV, and now I hear from Kwame Mdaka that there is a viral campaign on the loose linked to another Unilever brand - this time Lipton Ice Tea.
Apparently if you buy 20 x 1.5 liter bottles of Lipton Ice Tea (about [...]

Gareth Knight is doing some research for a conference, called TECH4FRICA he hopes to host next year right here in Johannesburg.

Help him by providing some idea of what you’d like to see at such a conference - it would be great to get a couple of really hot speakers out to SA on some prevalent [...]

If you’ve stumbled across my blog because of the the Aston Martin post on Digg and this is your first visit, welcome!
My name is Mike. I’m a 26 year old South African entrepreneur. I spend most of my time translating tangible business value from Web 2.0 trends and technologies for South African corporations.
I [...]

Some dude submitted my post about the Aston Martin to Digg and it seems to be doing ok…
Feel like adding your vote and making me famous (well, more famous)?
DIGG IT!

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Jo’burg International?, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

According to my brand new Garmin Nuvi 360 and the Garmaps Southern Africa edition installed on it, this is Johannesburg International Airport. Ran a timing experiment this morning [...]

not the 2010 logo
South African citizen’s response to the 2010 logo…
(tags: 2010 soccer SouthAfrica)

MediaWiki is the open source software used (and originally written) to power Wikipedia.
Much of my work involves meeting corporate clients, initiating internal communications audits and diagnosing areas of pain that social software may (or may not) assist with. Once we’ve figured out the pain, we match a software solution to that specific need. [...]

An interesting post titled “Does your company need a Chief Web Officer?” from David Berlind, a ZDNet blogger, has got me thinking about where ‘Web responsibilities’ fit in the modern day enterprise.
I had a really interesting meeting with a formidably tall (he’s a pro basketball player) and talented dude called Kwame Mdaka from Ontogeny [...]

Techies (affectionately??) refer to Internet Explorer’s latest release as IE7.
Somebody has registered www.ie7.com. Microsoft may not be chuffed with what they’ve put there. You tell me.
Thanks for the link Dave.

Creative Commons Search
Creative Commons’ Search engine facility - search for licensed items using Google, Yahoo!, flickr, etc.
(tags: CreativeCommons copyright search searchengine media photos)

MS Firefox launches … at chilibean
Finally Microsoft sees the light. Thanks Paul, I wet my shorts.
(tags: Firefox Microsoft browser funny humor)

Andrew McAfee
Welcome to my world…
(tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0 adoption software social IT business)