Mike Stopforth

This is an unbelievable story that Bronwyn Patten from Dell South Africa sent through to me the other day - thought you geekier types might appreciate it…
Geraldine bought her son a second-hand Dell Latitude laptop (see Dell’s most recent Inspiron range here). One day, in the interest of security, the young man left his [...]

If you look very carefully you’ll notice that the Golf is actually leaning, along with the people inside…
Ok so I’m kidding but heck, what a phenomenal photo…

Hat tip to the Yellow Llama.

After suffering the tragic loss of Ashley Callie earlier this year it’s good to see that the Isidingo production team and cast still have a sense of humour…

Gino Cosme, a colleague of mine at Cerebra, has managed to do what I so desperately want to do but lack the fortitude to accomplish - he’s not only published a free Introductory Guide to Social Media for download, but he’s keeping it regularly updated.
Gino is a huge asset to Cerebra as our account director. [...]

A few weeks ago Susan Shabangu, deputy safety and security minister, came under fire for her comment at a police imbizo when she encouraged police officers to shoot to kill criminals, or more directly - “kill the bastards”.
Family friends of ours are currently spending their days and nights in ICU at the Glynnwood hospital next [...]

So it looks like the cat’s finally out of the bag. I have never written about Bolton the Magnificent, inventor of blogs and master of the Interweb Netsite on this blog before - at the time when the Bolton Deventer meme was at it’s peak I was pretty busy and missed out on the [...]

The team at Brandsh have combined with Standard Bank to provide yet another awesome to it’s clients (and potential clients) via the StandardBank.mobi mobile portal - ATM and branch location services.  Navigate to http://standardbank.mobi on your cellphone right now to check it out.
The service is painfully simple to use but incredibly powerful. Standard Bank [...]

When considering all the the captains of all of South Africa’s professional sporting codes since readmission, none have received as much flack and endured as much pressure from fans, fellow players and media alike than Graeme Smith, and yet despite all that produced such excellent results.
Yes, read that sentence again if you need to.
I have [...]

Standard Bank have broken new marketing ground by becoming South Africa’s first major brand (or any brand for that matter) to publish a social media release for our national Pro20 cricket tournament, of which they are the major sponsor. It seems quite appropriate that the progressive, game-changing nature of the 20-over format of cricket [...]

The team at Zoopy.com have edited and published a video of my talk at the recent New Media Marketing Conference. Here is the clip (complete with English phrases that I tend to make up on the fly. I reckon it’s just part of my charm…):

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