Mike Stopforth

After leaving the 27 Dinner at Relish last night embarrassingly early to catch a flight at 06h30 this morning back to Jozi, to speak to Investec at 11h00 in the Crocodile Ramble North of the frikkin’ N14 with some of the craziest people on the planet, it’s time to reflect.
It was cool to see how [...]

It’s the 27th, again, and time for the second 27 Dinner. Tonight’s event is booked out, and next month’s event in Jozi is already half full (not half empty). Please, if you want to be there make sure you get your name on ASAP. It’s looking as though we’ll be shifting venues [...]

I arrived in the ‘Your Mother’ City this morning at 10h00. It is now 17h30. In that time Dave and I have been sworn at by an irate man and his dog, been the victims of a road rage incident, watched two people have an all-out bare knuckle boxing match in the middle [...]

I’m speaking at a conference next week - Customer Management World Africa 2007 - part of the deal is that I get two guest passes to the event. The event has a great line-up, including the likes of Clem Sunter, Mixael de Kock (Maverick), Gidon Novick (Kulula) and Kevin Utian (Nando’s) to name a [...]

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: using blogs to boost the bottom line:
More blogging wisdom from Hugh
(tags: advice blog blogs Blogging article)

How to Add to Blogging Conversations… And Eliminate the Echo Chamber
Really useful and insightful post from Darren - compulsory reading for bloggers
(tags: blog howto problogger BLOGGING COMMUNITY Marketing ethics)

Ok, it’s just a bit of fun, but interesting how this site has aggregated results from a number of URL resources to generate a ‘value’ in dollars for your URL… www.dnscoop.com

My Site is worth$7,020
How much is your site worth?

What did you land up with?

The social Web is interesting. One of the new themes, memes, dreams, whatever you want to call it, that is prevailing at present is that of OpenID. The funny thing is, if you’re anything like me, it takes moment or two (and some serious Wikipedia time) to grasp these new concepts, and yet [...]

Love him or hate him, you gotta hand it to him - Mark Keohane is one smart dude.
Long before I was trying to sell social media to South African companies… actually, scratch that. Long before I ever blogged a thing. Nope, scratch that too. Long before I had even heard [...]

I got an email from Eric Edelstein, entrepreneur and Web guru, the other day. In it he highlighted one of his many online ventures, Mobile Q and A, a forum for all things cell phone in South Africa.
He encouraged me to check out the site and post on it. First I was a [...]

I was recently interviewed on e-TV’s live morning show as a follow-up to the Online Industry Summit. My Capetonian buddy Chris posted this on YouTube (the visual quality is a bit kak but the sound is intact).

I was pretty nervous - as you know I have a face for radio - so if you [...]