Category: IT@Cork

  • it@cork conference program announced

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    As Chair of the organising committee for this year’s it@cork Technology in Business Conference, I’m delighted to announce that the program has been announced and registrations are now open. The conference is on the 28th of November in the Radisson, Little Island. This year’s theme is Connect and Innovate and we have a spectacular line-up…

  • Monster steals email addresses and spams it@cork membership

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    This morning one of it@cork‘s members forwarded us an email conversation he had with John Burns, Monster‘s Business Development Manager in Ireland. We were incredulous when we read it. It started with an email from Monster’s John Burns to 189 recipients and CC’d to our member (!). Our member replied to John that this was…

  • Congrats Jeff

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    I was delighted to see Jeff Nolan has started to work for NewsGator. Jeff, who has previously worked for Teqlo and SAP was one of the best speakers we had at the it@cork annual conference last year. NewsGator, the company he is joining, are the leading RSS client company, powering FeedDemon and NetNewsWire as well…

  • Embedding Google Calendars

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    Spectacular! I’ve just noticed that it is possible to embed Google Calendars in a blog post or website! http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=irish__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com&title=Irish%20Holidays&height=614 This is going to be very useful for events like the it@cork conference, or multi-week events like the blog training course I delivered a few months back. I’m sure there are lots of other applications. What…

  • Marcio Galli's talk in Cork

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    Fair dues to Damien Mulley and it@cork for putting on a great Firefox event last night. Marcio Galli is a Consulting Software Developer at Mozilla Foundation based in Brazil. He gave a fascinating talk entitled “Talk: Read, Write, and Recycle the Web with FireFox 3“. Watch the it@cork blog for a detailed review of the…

  • Blog training course discussion area

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    Paul O’Mahony is one of the people sitting in on the Blog Training Course I am running for it@cork. Paul has been blogging for a while now and I first met him at the Irish Blog Awards earlier this year. Paul made a suggestion in the comments on his own blog that I put up:…

  • Cork – the ideal location for your IT business?

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    it@cork has published the results of its member survey. 165 members completed the survey giving a detailed insight into the how I.T. is faring in Cork. The main points are: 70% of respondents indicated that their businesses achieve average-to-excellent value from recently qualified IT graduates 30% of respondents indicated that their organisations had openings for…

  • Blog training course

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    it@cork are running another Blog Training course commencing on Wednesday May 9th. I will be giving the training and it is open to members of it@cork for a charge of €50 and to non-members for a charge of €100. The course will be run over 5 consecutive weeks on Wednesday mornings at 09:30 for an…