Mike Stopforth

It’s a good time to be a geek.
Afrigator is giving away an Apple Video iPod this next month to an existing user who invites someone new to Afrigator, and another iPod to one of those new users. Check out the competition page for more details. We’re also giving away limited edition [...]

How to Change the World: The Essence of Duct Tape Marketing
How to bootstrap marketing in your small business.
(tags: marketing Business strategy tips entrepreneurship books blog)

How to Change the World: The Big Dip: Ten Questions with Seth Godin
Guy interviews Seth - good things are bound to happen.
(tags: business marketing strategy career sethgodin interview books)

Your Company Blog Sucks, Now What? | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
Interesting thoughts from Mack Collier
(tags: article blog blogging RSS enterprise2.0)

Here’s good news - Niall Cook’s answer to the workplace’s call for a corporate del.icio.us has launched - check out Cogenz. I was a beta tester for the app and loved it.
Cogenz - a portmanteau of the words ‘collective intelligence’ - is a powerful application built on the .net framework (which is nice for [...]

So my beloved South African cricket team has blundered it’s way through to the semifinal stage of the 2007 World Cup. A Wold Cup which, in retrospect, has been marred by terrible tragedies (the alleged murder of Bob Woolmer), crazy upsets and shocking support from the Caribbean locals (although this has to be blamed [...]

I know that only this afternoon I was going on about how I thought Southern Sun Sucked after a disappointing service experience, but I’ve had to swallow my words.
I received a call two hours ago, at 20h15, only four hours after publishing the original post, from Stuart (General Manager) to apologise and indicate that he [...]

Help me out here - I’m livid. Just spent 30 min at the reception counter at Southern Sun Grayston trying to purchase a voucher for wifi access, seeing as I’m about to present to the National Speaker’s Association in 90 min. I really don’t want to have to rely on my phone which [...]

I’ve been quiet, I know. I’ve had angry life-threatening mails from my fans (read: family members) telling me to drub up some inspiration and right something. But I’ve been a bit busy. Herewith an update as to what’s on my radar:
Afrigator
Yep, Afrigator has pretty much dominated this blog for some time - [...]

SA blogging bonanza : Mail & Guardian Online
Lloyd Gegye talks about the explosion of blogging in South Africa over the last two years or so.
(tags: SouthAfrica blogs blogging bloggers Amatomu Aggregation)

7 Essential WordPress Hacks | Tubetorial
Some cool ideas for all you WP junkies out there.
(tags: wordpress tutorials hacks blog howto blogging video tips tutorial)

Utilizing Facebook to Network Yourself and Your Content
Nice ideas for using Facebook’s Notes section to promote your content!
(tags: Facebook socialnetworking socialmedia social web2.0 MySpace Pronet)

Google to Acquire DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion In Cash
Next in line - DoubleClick. Google continues it’s Web 2.0 spend.
(tags: advertising business company Google strategy DoubleClick)