Mike Stopforth

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. [...]

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 [...]

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…):

Your comments, as always, are encouraged and appreciated.

I’ve had this review saved in my WordPress drafts for some time now, but after I noticed that Saul was kind enough to mention my blog in his post I felt a bit guilty that I hadn’t published it yet. So here goes…
Saul Kropman authors The Outlet - “Interesting commentary for interesting people” [...]

Congratulations to the following three suggestions for improvements to Afrigator, which according to my records, where the leading submissions on the Muti Hot page last night at 22h00:

Nic Haralambous
Nic suggested that we bring competitive rankings back to Afrigator.
In my honest opinion I think Afrigator has lost some fight since it decided not to rank blogs [...]

If you’ve found your way here because you heard me chatting to Simon Dingle, welcome! Please feel free to leave a comment below with any questions you may have. My thanks goes to 702 for the opportunity to have a quick chat on Talk at 9 after John Robbie picked up on my [...]

It’s our first birthday and in keeping with the spirit of innovation and community we’d like to ask you - the dudes who actually make Afrigator tick - to help us come up with some innovative new ideas for improving the experience, look, feel or whatever of the site…
Announcing the ‘1 TH1NG‘ Afrigator birthday competition!
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