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_ Mike Stopforth » About
I am a consultant, writer and speaker. I help companies translate real value from Web 2.0 trends and technologies for better business. I’m privileged to have the opportunity to write a weekly op-ed column for the Citizen newspaper and am a technology commentator for popular business and marketing websites including Moneyweb […]

_ Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light
This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch this.
It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence […]

And so it begins…. We’ve started getting some really good feedback for the Tech 4 Africa conference (last check we were up to about 30 replies after a day or so of being up and emailing to an initial beta group for testing) which has totally surpassed our expectations. When the automated notification emails […]

Sometimes you need to extract yourself from things to get a clear perspective, and get some inspiration…

GTD

We’ve been a long time in preparation for this, and it’s taken a huge amount of work to get to this point, but I’m happy to say that we’ve launched the site for the TECH4FRICA 2007 - Technology for Africa: A web and emerging technology conference, and we’re starting to mail the people we know […]

I’ve just had an interesting experience these last few weeks, where I’ve been woefully underwhelmed by a supplier that I thought was going to do a lot better than was eventually produced. Throughout the process I was defending the supplier with my colleagues, thinking that I would hold on ‘cos that great piece of […]