Will the Arts lead the Web 2.0 Wave?

The Arts Council ran a thought provoking conference yesterday in Dublin Castle entitled New Media New Audience.  The attendees ranged from small theatrical organisations to service providers.  It was positioned as a thought platform but the organisation went beyond that…

Will the Arts lead the Web 2.0 Wave?

The Arts Council ran a thought provoking conference yesterday in Dublin Castle entitled New Media New Audience.  The attendees ranged from small theatrical organisations to service providers.  It was positioned as a thought platform but the organisation went beyond that…

The Business case for Social Media

The IIA Social Media working group recently organised an afternoon session with Neville Hobson entitled The Business Case for Social Media.  The session was well chaired by Brendan Hughes and viewed remotely by students of the Tipperary Institute courtesy of Bernie Goldbach.  Neville has…

What a Twitterific Awards

Congratulations to Pat Phelan who won the overall IIA  NetVisionary award last week.  This really is the awards season with Damien Mulleys Web Awards earlier in the month and the Golden Spiders still to come.  The awards was one of the first…

Product Testing for the Brave

I signed up for Fuel My Blog a good while ago and effectively forgot about it until I received an alert from them on Friday for product reviewing.  The site is offering a new service where they build a profile…

Store Displays Gives New Window to PR

Grafton Street experiences rates of pedestrian traffic up to 12,000 people an hour and is a ripe audience to help communicate and support PR campaigns, once you get the formula right. A lot of PR campaign focus solely on the media…

RTE taking on Bebo

The Examiner ran a piece on RTEs plan to run Aisling’s Diary, a three minute “Snack TV” soap aimed at teenagers.  Its almost a Bebo in reverse.  Bebo started Sophies Diary online and are now looking to the major tv stations…

Failte Ireland Embraces Social Networking

Congrats to Failte Ireland who are in the final stages of awarding a social networking tender. Building a series of Bebo profiles, a game and support website the initiative aims to promote a career in hospitality. Great to see government…

Building Applications in Facebook

Facebook offers a great medium for building relevant applications and is one of the reasons that it has maintained its current numbers of subscribers. We have built an application called Get Creative which is a database of Public Relations, Marketing…

Using blogs to maximise your sponsorship

I presented at the recent IIA Congress but as time keeper had a great chance to see the key note addresses. PodCast and Presentations are available from their website. There were lots of great speakers but as usual there was…

Irish Times Goes Audio

Following the training of Irish Times staff a few weeks ago the fruits of their hard labour can now be seen online. Now Irish Times journalists go out with trusted pen, paper and digital recorder. Journalists recording interviews is nothing…