Mike Stopforth

Bill Clementson’s Blog: Why you should buy an OLPC XO Laptop
Makes sense to me…
(tags: article blog opensource resource science society technology Charity Hardware computer Linux laptop olpc)

Seth’s Blog: Conceal vs. Reveal
Cool thoughts from Seth.
(tags: communication legal marketing Customer godin)

This month sees 27-15 Jozi and 27-16 Durban taking place on the 27th November in their respective cities. It’s hard to believe we’re on our 16th dinner countrywide! Congrats and thanks to all who have worked so hard to make 27 a highlight in the tech / marketing calendar.
Special thanks must also go [...]

Intranets in Trouble - Shel Holtz
Shel reflects on some revealing statistics about the corporate intranet
(tags: intranet communication corporate social web2.0 enterprise2.0)

Four websites 90% of social media geeks and techies will follow almost religiously: Techcrunch, Read/Write Web, Engadget and Gizmodo. Four websites that between them realistically publish at least 200 posts a day. Good posts. Not great posts, but good posts.
Even if they were the only four websites I followed [...]

I’ll be joining Guy Taylor on his Radio 2000 show, Risky Business, this coming Wednesday evening at 19h00 to talk about Cerebra, social media and suchlike. Feel free to phone in to abuse me

I’m a drummer - it’s a lesser known Stopforth fact I play weekly in our church band and on the very odd occasion when I get some spare time - not having a kit at home limits my opportunities to practice and play. Considering I’ve been playing some time now I’m a [...]

A few weeks back James Johnson, Site Editor at InternetEvolution.com, contacted me to ask if I’d contribute to ThinkerNet, a moderated blog network of Internet experts (much like our local ThoughtLeader.co.za).
I was pretty honoured to be asked, and then when I saw the list of people I’d be writing with I was positively blown away [...]

Voting Irregularities in Weblog Awards 2007? Engadget and Gizmodo Duke it Out
Clearly SA is not the only place where blog awards suffer controversy. We need a global IEC for blogging comps…
(tags: blogging web blogs competition awards)

Promote Your Brand on Facebook
Fantastic article by the Ideate team on how to promote your brand on [...]

My loyalty to the many feeds pouring into my RSS reader on a daily space is fragile - if you’re like me you process about a hundred incoming feeds on a daily basis, leaving you with the reality of having to make decisions regarding which of those you’ll give decent attention to.
This is not always [...]

I’ll listen to the news when I get in my car, and I’ll watch the odd 7 o’clock repost on the telly after work. Sometimes I’ll check news online. But I don’t get news delivered to my RSS reader - I check that too seldom to warrant it.
I’m unsatisfied though. I still [...]