Tag: blogger

  • Sky Handling Partners engage in fraud and libel against blogger? – contd

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    Sky Handling Partners have a shitstorm on their hands. Yesterday someone in their organisation committed computer fraud (a criminal offense)  and libel against Damien Mulley – seemingly in revenge for a post he published where he outlined how poorly they treated him after losing his luggage! Now, instead of trying to engage with Damien. Instead…

  • World champion blogger?

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    I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…

  • Salim, the early bird…

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    The first of the speakers for the it@cork 2006 Business and Technology conference flew in last night. Salim Ismail, founder and CEO of Confabb (coincidentally a conference aggregation site!), is taking a couple of days before the conference starts to drive around beautiful West Cork and Kerry. Salim will be arriving back in Cork tomorrow…

  • Arguments against business blogging?

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    A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…

  • The next great Cork Blogger's dinner

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    The plates are hardly dry from last night’s great blogger’s dinner and we have another spectacular one planned. The date is November 28th, time and venue are yet to be decided – mark it in your calendars now! November 28th is the eve of it@cork’s 2006 Business and Technology conference, so I made sure to…

  • Last night's blogger's dinner

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    Last night’s blogger’s dinner was a great success – thanks to Pat for organising (and paying for) it. Shel Israel and Rick Segal were the guests of honour and both had lots of interesting info to impart. Rick talked up MusicIP – I missed the start of the conversation but I assume MusicIP is a…

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…

  • In-car GPS units

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    I drove to Dublin on Saturday. I had a couple of small jobs to do and I was going to the Blogger meetup in the Market Bar afterwards. Now I don’t know Dublin well at all so I was mighty relieved when a friend offered me the loan of a Sony GPS unit for the…