Colm O’Regan is doing his standup show Dislike in Project Arts on December 16th and 17th. Colm did a mini-version at the Web Awards this year and it got a great reaction from the web savvy crowd. It’s worth a look if you’re a Facebook addict, someone that loves the web and/or someone that finds the bailout and financial crisis to be sad but also darkly funny. Or you will after. Tickets are the same as a packet of cigarettes after the next budget. (€12/€10)...
When Fund It was announced ages back along with other grant announcements like 180k on a hologram about Irish Coffee, I was slightly cynical. Sure it was just a clone of Kickstarter. And it was and is.
Fund It though is localised and with it, it has a vibrant community of people in the arts, trying to build creative or crazy projects with the help of the general public. I’ve been impressed with the way people are taking to it both as those soliciting funds and those contributing 5 euros, 10 euros or 500 euros. I’ve asked three people who have used Fund It for projects to share their thoughts on using Fund It. To note: I started writing this post in August and have finally had time to put it all together now.
I interviewed Philly McMahon from ThisIsPopBaby about Year of Magical...
Being a Mulley type awards gig, we try and make it as informal and fun as we can. Or childish. Sometimes this is the same thing.
I had an idea for the Web Awards that we could start handing goodies in the form of sweets out to people in the audience. Then when I fleshed this out I thought a fun way to do this is to package the sweets in airline trays and hand them out row by row. And to make it more fun again I envisaged drag queens (it is my objective to have drag queens be involved in some way in a Mulley gig in the next while just to intimidate and amuse some straightlaced hetero males) dressed up as trolley dollys handing out the trays to rows of people. A combination of the High Life and Willy Wonka.
Sourcing the trays was the issue though. Drag queens are a plenty. I think I would...
If you were to bump into this witty and cultured guy at a friend’s party and think he’s a good laugh and he invites some friends and you to another party, you take his car and on the way to this other gaff you realise it’s not his car, he just lifted keys from the original party and he’s actually on second thoughts a bit mental and with a scary dark side and you have no idea where the fuck you’ll end up or if you’ll escape, then you’re slightly experiencing the genius that is Neil Watkins and his play The Year of Magical Wanking. And if you only breathe out after that last full stop, this is what the play will do to you. You can’t be prepared, so go with it. Funny, scary, intelligent and with spit in your face honesty. It could just be a...
Jack in Media Contact asked me to do a workshop for the Media Contact Mash conference in May and asked me to figure out what I wanted to cover. He also wanted to try out something new and make me a “media sponsor”. New meedja/social meedja etc.
The idea being that I use my media channels (Blog, Twitter etc) to highlight the conference and my workshop and I get a return if anyone that follows the link above or here buys a ticket. Being honest, I like the idea but have always tried not to make any money from this blog apart from linking to my business site. I can’t bundle my share into a ticket sales reduction as then every media partner would be ignored if mine were cheaper so whatever is made from ticket sales kickbacks via those links, I’ll probably put it to...
The fouth annual Leaders Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, 18 November 2010 in the Vertigo Lounge, County Hall at 7.15pm.
Supported by IBM, Enterprise Ireland, KPMG, Berkley Recruitment, Worky, Pepsico & Software Skillnets.We are delighted to announce that Mr.Denis Collins, Global Sales Executive, IBM will be your host for the night. This year’s keynote speaker is Mr. Neil Leyden, Calico Media, Winner of “Your Country, Your Call – Making Ireland a Global Media Hub” initiative.
Neil Leyden is a media consultant, screenwriter and entrepreneur. He is the prime mover behind the International Content Services Centre, an initiative which aims to make Ireland a global content management destination that streamlines the storage, localization, delivery and...
BlogTalk 2010 is back again in Galway. Registration for BlogTalk is €149 for two days (early bird). There are also have student / unemployed / one-day rates too.
Some of the speakers include:
Dan Gillmor (director, Knight Center): Activist consumers and responsible media creators in a networked age
Stowe Boyd (social tools authority): Social media blur: blogs, networks are turning into real-time streams
Don Thibeau (director, OpenID): Open identity for open government
Charles Dowd, Sonia Flynn (Facebook): The Facebook Platform
Ade Oshineye (Google): Social networks versus conversational networks
Full breakdown of talks.
Might be worth a visit for Dan and Stowe alone....
The young lad Traynor’s accent is spot on there!...
Via Barry’s Tea Facebook – Want a picture of you to feature on Barry’s Tea Gold Blend packaging? You have until this evening to send in a pic of yourself which may get featured. You don’t have to be from Cork to enter. Email the pics to: barrystea@thinkhousepr.com Sooo much potential for poses using a tea cosy or two.
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After the good feedback of the first one, we have another Tweasurehunt planned for this Saturday. More clues, more fun. Prizes too. And all for free and you might encounter some interesting cultural elements in Dublin City Centre too.
You don’t really need to know Dublin well, street names perhaps, if you’re weak on this, why not join up with someone that is?
Sign up by leaving a comment on the post over here....
Public events where I’ll be in the next wee while:
Still some spaces for the Branding and Communications workshop on Thursday 22nd with it@Cork. Free for members.
Also a few spaces have opened up for the Online PR Course in Dublin on May 4th.
Measure It! meanwhile is on May 5th in Dublin. Two hour event from 10-12 in the Odeon. For PR people, marketing people and those in digital who want to share practical solutions on issues they are having with social media.
Media2020 is booked out. My 5 min talk on gadgets might have me show off my iPad. Using Keynote for iPad to design the preso.
Social Media for Business with Limerick City Enterprise Board. June 9th. Massively subsidised for members....
So for TEDx Liffey last night I was given 4 minutes to talk about being happy in business.
240 seconds is 4 minutes so I figured I’d do 8 X 30 second talking points. I started off by jotting down a few quick thoughts on some rough paper. Followed by some thoughts on two pages of notepaper. From that I wrote down the slide headers on a post-it.
After that I rewrote out all 8 points again. I then proceeded to read them out and time myself. Came out to be about 4 mins 10 seconds after a few read-throughs.
And from there was typing it up:
After that it was creating the slides which only used the text from the headers with the last slide taking lyrics from a Pogues song....
Galway, Cork, Dublin
To answer some of the emails and messages about training events:
April 14th, Blogging Workshop with Galway Executive Skillsnet.
April 22nd Building Cost Effective Reputation for your business Free for it@Cork members.
April 29th Social Media for Business in Cork with PFH – €150
May 4th Online PR Training Course in Dublin – €210...
Was not this one. Luckily I didn’t publicly announce my retirement. This was meant to be my last Blog Awards but a few things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go on the night so the beatings will continue til the morale improves and I’m happy with a Blog Awards. Maybe I’ll get it right the 6th time or the 7th.
Notes like the below make it all worth it though:
Please do blog and email and give thanks to the organisers. It takes considerable effort to run this and year on year less thank you emails are sent while complaint emails go up. It makes a difference between the organisers enjoying doing this or seeing it as a chore.
Thanks to Nathalie for the photo. Thanks to Jim Caroll and Rick O’Shea for positive messages about running events.
If you’re a...
The course will take place on April 22nd from 11am to 1pm
Free for Members – 40€ Non-Members – 40 places available
Location: Cork International Airport Hotel
Warren Buffet said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
DESCRIPTION: Reputation is earned and not bought
How do my costumers perceive me? Why would they buy my brand rather than my competitor’s? How would I persuade them that I am the one to trust? Should I be completely transparent? What should I communicate to my customers and how? How can I build a connection with my customers?… All these questions you are asking yourself will be answered on the course and more!!
This course provides a great...
Have a look at the twitter account DublinTweasure.
It starts at 2pm in Dublin City Centre.
What you need is a phone with web access, a team and knowledge or access to knowledge.
Cash prize for the winners too. Full details of what will be asked of you will be on the Twitter account....
Good News Friday is this Friday. Media Express is allowing you free access to their press release system if you send out positive press releases this Friday.
You can sign up now and even compose your release and then time it to go out on Friday. The idea is that Friday’s news then will be full of positive news on the day which is normally the most depressing of the year.
Download a prep pack too. (PDF) Light the scented candles, drink some hippy tea and start putting together nice news!
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Weather permitting of course. January 30th. 2ish.
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Want to take part in a treasure hunt around Dublin City Centre? Powered by Twitter. Follow this Twitter account. Cash prize but the glory is the big thing, right? Clues sent out via Twitter so phone with a Twitter client will be handy. You may be asked to take photos while running about and send them back to HQ via Twitter too. Full details in the next few days. Prepping you for it now. Teams of up to 6 permitted. You can tag along without a team if you want though.
Massive thanks to Willie White , Project Arts Centre and Alexia Golez from Golez Heavy Metal Extractions for building this game....
Conor will be at Le Web in Paris from tomorrow afternoon until Friday morning. If you'd like to meet up to discuss any aspect of the LouderVoice business then feel free to contact me via any of the following methods:
Mobile: +353-87-9790297
Twitter: @conoro
e-mail: conor AT loudervoice DOT com
Hope to see you there, it's building up to be the best Le Web......
For a few years now the Downtown arts and entertainment supplement which appears in the Evening Echo on Thursdays has featured listings from the event guide on peoplesrepublicofcork.com.
From the PROC:
We are delighted to announce that the Evening Echo will now print gig details from the Event Guide in every edition of the paper on page 30 as well as the full 7 day guide every Thursdays.
Good news for those looking for up-to-date listings when internet access isn’t readily available.
The PROC event guide can be found here:
http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/eventguide/...
As co-organiser of the first two Cork BarCamps, I’m thrilled to see the third one is happening next Saturday 14th Nov in the fabulous Cork International Airport Hotel. The able organisers this time around are Gordon Murray, Ciara Crossan and Ciara Feely.
BarCamp is one of those free conferences where you leave having gained far more from the day than you expect. It’s the serendipity that makes it special. I have built many friendships and business relationships with the people I meet there over the years.
Whilst it does have a technical intent, the talks that work best are those that intersect technology, design, business, society or fun.
Anyone can speak at a BarCamp on any topic. You just turn up, grab a spare slot and have your say. If no-one finds it interesting, you talk...
Many thanks to Software Skillnet for their support of this event and to DeCare Systems Ireland, for sponsoring the student fund. We had students from WIT, Tipperary Institute, Tralee IT, UCC and CIT!
Please take a minute or two to review the event on our website and tell us what kind of Technical events you want in the future! Scroll to the end of this page to review
First up was Simon Ritter from Sun Microsystems.
Java Future S Ritter
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Next we had Ben Hale from SpringSource
Building Modular Dynamic Web Apps Ben Hale
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After the coffee break, Manik Surtani, JBoss was up:
Infinispan The Future Of Os Data Grids Manik Surtani
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We are still waiting for Kevin...
The 30th Beamish Cork Folk Festival will take place between Thursday 1st October and Sunday 4th October 2009 at venues all over Cork City.
From the festival website:
Highlights of the festival so far include;
• Mícheál ó Súilleabháin & Mel Mercier, Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden and Garry O’Briain in concert with the backing of the Galway based ConTempo String Quartet.
• The première of a new composition by Niall Valley. This piece has been commissioned by RTE lyric fm. Its performance have been grant aided by the Arts Council. The line up included Niall, Caoimhín and Cillian Vallely, Niall Keegan, Ed Boyd & Karan Casey and a String Orchestra.
• Frankie Gavin & De Dannan will arrive back in Cork for a concert with a new line up ; Michelle Lally,...
The recent it@cork iPhone Apps Event took place on July 8 and attracted an audience of nearly 90 attendees. Keith Davey of Marino Software, Des Traynor of Contrast and Daniel Heffernan of Appschool spoke at the event.
We’d love to get your feedback on the event by writing a review below. It’d be fantastic if you’d also try out the “login with Facebook” option.
it@cork plans to run more mobile development events, so we would delighted to hear your comments on potential topics and speakers in this space.
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Not a bad turnout! Well, we at it@cork are happy anyway! We organised 6 events this month, must be a record - attended by 191 attendees, mainly members. A few non members attended also, but at this stage most of them have been converted to members, as we recruited 13 new member companies also this month!
Here is what we organised in June:
June 9 - Intl Services Success Boardroom Session - 23 attendees (we couldn’t fit many more!)
June 9 - Heads of IT lunch hosted by Ruth Buckley, Cork City Council, 8 IT Managers
June 18 - Midsummer networking event at the Murphy Brewery. Always popular! - 85 attendees.
June 18 - Software Testing event with SoftTest Ireland - 15 attendees
June 23 - Intl Product Success Boardroom Session - 25 attendees
June 25 - Agile breakfast - 35 attendees....
Very good idea from West Cork Enterprise Board:
They are running 3 one-day Idea Generation Workshops over the coming weeks. The workshops are for people who are thinking about starting their own business but don’t have a business idea in mind yet and also people who have a business idea but want to study the idea further.
They will help people decide whether self-employment is the right route for them. Topics covered during the workshop will include: What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? How are new business ideas generated; How to select and develop a business idea and what steps should be taken when you have decided on your business idea. Delivered in a practical manner, case studies will be used and future worldwide trends will be discussed.
Thursday 18th June, 9.30am-4.30pm,...
The first Facebook Garage Ireland was a massive success with 150+ people in attendance and a bunch of great talks and demos.
We’re planning the next one for June and have put the call out for speakers/demoers.
If you are doing anything with FB Apps or Connect and want to let people know, then grab the opportunity. Remember, we had RTE at the last one and made the news!
All details over on the Web2Ireland blog....
Many thanks to everyone who turned out bright and early for this morning’s BizSpark Briefing. We had 50 attendees which is great.
The first presetnation was from Ronan Geraghty, Microsoft. If you have any specific questions, re the programme, please leave a comment here and we can get back to you.
Ronan Geraghty Microsoft BizSpark Introduction
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John Galvin from Cork based BackUpEarth.Com are currently participating in the programme and John presented what they are getting out of it.
BackUpEarth
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Finally, Catriona Lynch from C Infinity presented on the role of a hosting partner.
Catriona Lynch BizSpark Hosting Partner
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We’re trying to plan the rest of this year’s technical events. We’ve already received suggestions from the Tech Forum and through event evaluation forms and have turned them into a list of potential events. We’d like your help to decide which events to run this year.
Please fill out the survey below - it will take less than a minute - honest! (it’s mostly tick boxes). Make sure you get the technical events YOU’RE interested in this year.
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We took some video footage of the Virtualisation event that was held in January. This was very much an experiment and we learned quite a bit about what was needed for future events. Is this something you’d like to see again?
Tikiri Wanduragala, IBM:
Garrett Hartney, VMware:
Mark Twomey, EMC:
Patrick Irwin, Citrix:
Q&A:...