Tag: Blogging

  • 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…

  • Reasons not to steal bandwidth

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    [Final Update] – Post title changed one more (and final) time. I have updated this post one final time because I didn’t realise how quickly and more importantly how high up my post would come in a search for Noah’s name. I have spoken to Noah and he is genuinely sorry and I don’t (now)…

  • Shel and Rick coming to town!

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    Shel Israel (former PR exec turned social media consultant) and Rick Segal (highly respected VC) are coming to Cork next Tuesday. Rick and Shel, as well as attending the blogger’s dinner that Pat has arranged for them, are also making themselves available to meet entrepreneurs on the afternoon of Tuesday Oct 17th. If you have…

  • Firefox 2.0 rc2 GB keeps crashing

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    Tom Raftery
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    I downloaded the latest Firefox rc2 this morning. Being based in Ireland I downloaded the English (British) version for my Mac because there is an inbuilt spell checker and I didn’t want all my spelling flagged as incorrect by a US spell checker! Why is spell checking important in a browser? Well, I write all…

  • WIT Workshop

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    The business blogging workshop I held in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) yesterday seemed to go very well. The online feedback was very positive as were a lot of the comments during the course of the day. The workshop itself was quite challenging to pitch because the attendees spanned communications, marketing, business development and deep…

  • WIT

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    I’ll be in Waterford Institute of Technology all day today giving a seminar on business blogging – expect few posts today!

  • Les Blogs 3

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Loic has posted dates for Les Blogs 3. It is on December 11th and 12th this year. I went last year and I can honestly say it was the highlight of the year for me. Still no mention of line-up or pricing but unless it is outrageously expensive, I’ll be going. See you…