Mike Stopforth

Or at least I thought so. Sure, we struggled to hear at times as we competed with another party upstairs at Primi Forum Melrose Arch, but all in all I think it was a super evening.
Just under 100 people rocked up to the biggest 27dinner so far, we might have even clocked 100 as [...]

There are still 25 or so places remaining at this month’s 27dinner in Jozi. Please don’t forget that it’s being held on the 28th do to the fact that the 27th falls on a Sunday.
We’re lucky to have Charl Norman and Jason Hobbs presenting, and I’m pushing and prodding another speaker to join us. [...]

Popular business social network LinkedIn and the New York Times have struck up a content partnership that makes a whole lot of sense to me - in fact the MyGenius blokes should think of integrating something like this into their site… (because none of the other changes I suggested have been implemented, yet).
From ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn users [...]

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing | chrisbrogan.com
More succinct, simple guidelines from ChrisBrogan.com - this guy is prolific and a worthy addition to any RSS reader…
(tags: marketing socialmedia social web2.0 strategy blogging blog business advertising)

TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities
Somebody likes making lists. TechCult.com has come up with their list of [...]

…my book. But let me first tell you why.
Quirk eMarketing have once again firmly established themselves as our country’s leading eMarketing authority with the release of their textbook eMarketing: The essential guide to online marketing. From their blog:

eMarketing is a 300 page textbook aimed at tertiary education students, business owners and marketers who [...]

Thanks to Neville’s Muti link I’ve just picked up on a very intriguing post by Y Combinator, the seed-funding venture firm built around Web 2.0 startups, talking about ideas they’d invest in.
Being a bit of an entrepreneur myself I was immediately drawn to the post, and a couple of things surprised me…

First of [...]

Without a doubt the supremely popular Guitar Hero 3 video game has millions of wannabe musicians (and even established musicians) the world over fulfilling their long-held dreams of being an axe-wielding rock star, but what if guitar is not really your thing?
What if you’d rather fantasize about being the greatest sitar or accordian [...]

I was a fortunate kid - my folks committed to giving my brother and I two good holidays a year, and for over ten years, every year, we made pilgrimages to the Kruger National Park in July (when it’s perfect for game viewing) and to Pennington on the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal in December.  [...]

This is a little late in coming but I’d like to take a moment to share my experience of Internet Solution’s Internetix event in Cape Town with you.
I was invited to speak at both events (Jo’burg is still to come, Cape Town was held yesterday) on the subject of Harnessing the Social Web.  To be [...]

Now before you get suspicious, I’m not going to agree with Tank Lanning’s Sports24 column about our win over the All Blacks in Carisbrook this last weekend because his name is Tank (albeit that is a compelling enough reason on it’s own) - I’m agreeing because he is 100% right.
You may be wondering why I [...]