Mike Stopforth

Steve Rubel thinks this pic rocks…

No disrespect to Steve intended, but I nearly wet my pants.

A while back I did something that pulled me, quite unwittingly, into the middle of a heated debate around Wikipedia Inclusionism vs. Deletionism (I may just have made both of those words up).
To cut a very long story short I authored the first iteration of the ‘Enterprise 2.0‘ article on Wikipedia after reading material on [...]

This post has been in draft phase for months now, after I promised a series on building your personal brand online.
However, thanks to the sharing magnificence that is Muti, I’ve discovered someone cleverer than me at Lifehack.com has come up with a brilliant post on the same subject and heck - you know [...]

Decided to try catch up on some RSS feeds this morning, seeing as I’ve been missing out on all the good news lately, and it appears Bloglines has deleted all my feeds. They’re just not there. What a pain.
I guess it’ll give me an opportunity to finally switch to Google Reader, which I’ve [...]

Dear Graham of Stormhoek,
I am sorry for forgetting to mention you and thank you for the generous donation of fantastic wine that helped us (some more than others, Dave), get comfortable last night.
Dear Goodman of Knowledge Upgrade,
I am sorry for forgetting to mention you and thank you for being brave enough to face the wrath [...]

Lesson Numero Uno of building an online profile / social media profile:
Everything you publish is important.
Uno de Waal, Social Media consultant and all-round-dude-of-note has taught me a lesson in this regard. You can never afford to sit back and just write stuff. You have to think about who is reading what [...]

David Rattray was murdered in his KwaZulu-Natal home on Friday evening.
I did not know David. I was, however, blessed to share a stage with him at a conference late last year, and hear him speak. I go to many conferences, I hear many people speak. But David Rattray’s raw brilliance, his unbridled [...]

Two pretty significant things happened last night. We had our first 27 Dinner in Jozi - 27 is a series of meetings for techies, geeks, media practitioners, speakers, businesspeople, entrepreneurs and more - and by all accounts it was a big success. If you missed it, there’ll be a 27 held on the [...]

iBurst’s SMTP woes « Goozeberry: A Blog for the Future
Goozeberry’s iBurst pain
(tags: iBurst vodacom wireless broadband connectivity)

edublogs: The importance of creating a network
Really well thought out and written post from Edublogs
(tags: network blogging networks socialnetworking)

THE AD GENERATOR
“The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with re
(tags: advertising art generator flickr design marketing cool)