Mike Stopforth

I first met Jon Foster-Pedley while working together on a Management Development Programme (MDP) for the South African Breweries last year - he provided the content and I the social media platform for the initiative.
I’ll never forget it - we both arrived early for a meeting with the logistical team. He is [...]

Dennis Howlett, a fellow Social Media Collective member, got in touch with me the other day to chat about a new project he’s working on - check out FreeAgent Central. In short, FreeAgent Central is Freshbooks, but aimed at a UK market and (according to Dennis), better.
I am financially challenged. It’s not [...]

What are you all squealing about? What is so terrible about MTN and Jupiter drawing from public domain user-generated content and simply producing slicker or better (debatable) versions thereof?
Doesn’t the entire blogosphere work that way? Somebody comes up with something cool - an idea, notion, concept, buzzword - and then everyone piles in [...]

Sonja Blignaut of Dialogue Africa and the Center for Complexity Studies here in SA has been kind enough to let me know that one of the smartest, most intriguing thinkers I have ever had the pleasure of meeting is on his way back to SA. Dave Snowden (of Cognitive Edge) will be facilitating a [...]

Ok, so maybe our UK and USA counterparts will be wondering why we’re over the moon with excitement at the overwhelming one inch of snow we received this morning across most of Johannesburg, but if I say that the last time this happened in our part of the world was on the day I turned [...]

Just for fun, my list of the 10 most influential bands (not solo artists, so Josh Groban didn’t qualify) of all time, in my humble opinion (and in no particular order):
1. The Beatles
2. U2
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Queen
5. Nirvana
6. The Who
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Metallica
9. The Beach [...]

Sue Blaine has written a piece, published in today’s Business Day, about ‘The Changing Face of Internet Communicating‘ (is that right - communicating?? - sure it should read communication??). Dave was interviewed for the piece and Cerebra, our company, got a cool mention.
Part of the article is a wiki experiment that will be live [...]

Every now and again, a pure gem…

I am in the enviable position of having gone to school with (and I daresay she spoke one or two words to me while we were there) South Africa’s next Charlize Theron - Carice Goossens.

Carice is the front-lady to one of South Africa’s coolest up-and-coming acoustic-rock acts, Gently Scar’d, who are being recognised not just [...]

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
Awesome summary of Facebook platform (now that it has released it’s API)
(tags: facebook Web2.0 api socialnetworking programming social business)