Mike Stopforth

So often, when considering customer service (bearing in mind this is the classic splinter-in-their-eyes vs. log-in-mine scenario), I find that it’s the really simple, easy, intuitive, affordable common-sense things that make an almighty difference.
Take for example our experience at the Rose Cottage ‘eetplek’ in Dullstroom, the once quaint Mpumalanga village (now thriving metropolis), as we [...]

Does You Company Need a Social Media Risk Management Strategy?
Dennis asks questions around the demand for dedicated resources and competencies regarding social media in modern companies.
(tags: social media web2.0 blogging podcasting branding advertising business management customer CRM)

South African Marketers Need to Take More Risks Online
Gino writes another great post on the subject of social media [...]

Or at least is a very accommodating guy who has the time of day to listen to an arb pleb from Benoni. I got in touch with the marketing and PR genius yesterday to ask him to have a look at Afrigator and he kindly obliged, linking to it from his blog. It’s playing [...]

It’s a little raw and unsophisticated, but we’ve added a very basic Help page to Afrigator to explain a little more about the site and how to use it. You never know, you may find something useful there
For example, did you know you can pull an RSS feed from every page you [...]

So I’m sure the question on all of your lips is, why the hell create another blog aggregator straight after the successful release of the super-slick and buzzworthy Amatomu? What could Justin and I (we are behind it, yes) hope to achieve by competing head to head with the Vincent? Who needs another [...]

I nearly wet my pants:

This guy has made 5 second (ok, not really 5 seconds, but who cares) comedy clips of great movies. Priceless. There are bunches of them. I’ll never leave home again.

I nearly had yet another serious car accident this morning as a sign on a silver Telcoline bakkie (pick-up) next to me caught my eye, the content of which nearly sent me careening into the barrier from shock…

I had to take a pic and subsequently ignored the hoots and swearwords in all eleven official languages [...]