Mike Stopforth

Check out the Afrigator blog for details on a few new features, they’re pretty small in comparison to some of the stuff we are working on but in the interest of reminding you that we haven’t fallen off the planet, check out our new Trends page and our very own Twitter channel!

So perhaps you’ve heard of fat blogging, a meme started by Jason Calcanis of Sequoia Capital. I first stumbled across the term on Joe Jaffe’s site. Basically, as I understand it, the idea is to declare your overweight-ness to you reading audience, with the intention of losing weight and having them (and other) [...]

How To Run A Corporate Blog / Wired How To’s
Simple yet helpful tips on running an outward facing corporate blog from Steve Rubel
(tags: blog blogging Blogs corporate enterprise marketing media social socialmedia tips PR)

First 4 Steps in Social Media for Businesses | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
LAMP - steps for adopting social media in your [...]

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Learn Zulu in eight weeks! Sounds like a plan
(tags: zulu learning southafrica education)

The guys at MyADSL were kind enough to invite Justin Hartman, my partner and tech genius at Afrigator, to talk a little about our recent mention in Business 2.0 magazine.
Click here to listen to the interview.
Nice interview - well done Justin, you did us proud bru

If you follow this blog at all you’ll know that I recently upgraded to a new vehicle after utterly destroying my motor of my previous car due to an unfortunate altercation with an over-sized rock on a dirt road in Delmas.
I decided to stick with Audi and after doing some homework agreed to my [...]

Terrappin Training is one of South Africas most prominent conference organisers. I am fortunate enough to have landed the odd speaking slot at one or two of their marketing and branding conferences, but long before I ever dreamed of speaking about social media, or even knew what a blog was, Terrappin was sending me [...]

So I’m rushing out of the house this morning, late for a meeting again, and I grab my staple sipping sustenance from the fridge before leaping into my car and whizzing out the gate.
I’ve been drinking Yogi Sip for as long as I can remember. So drinking one this morning was nothing [...]

I’ve been enjoying a bit of traffic over the last few weeks. If you’re a first time visitor - welcome. If you think I speak any sense feel free to add me to your RSS feeds.
If you don’t quite get RSS, that’s cool. Then you have the option of subscribing via email [...]

Maggie Fox, the lovely leading lady at the Social Media Group, kindly asked me to join her for a discussion around Cerebra in a recent podcast.
This is not our first discussion - Maggie and I had a chat a while back which was quite a success, apparently, and was keen to hear some updates as [...]