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  • Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study

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    I am speaking at the it@cork Green IT breakfast event tomorrow morning (5th March ’08). My presentation is “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study” and I will be using CIX as a case study on how innovative thinking can lower your carbon footprint and your costs. The event kicks off…

  • Twitter vs. FaceBook

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    While everyone talks about the power of FaceBook as a cool means of getting a message out, you hear very little about the power of Twitter as a communications tool. I inadvertantly compared the two in recent months and found that Twitter was by far the more potent communications tool (in my unscientific test, at…

  • "Education only hampers learning"

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    Last Wednesday I had the very great pleasure of collecting Prof. Hans Rosling from the airport to bring him to the it@cork conference (where he kicked off the day with an inspirational presentation). In the car, on the way to the conference though Prof Rosling made a comment which I thought was extremely unusual for…

  • Conferences can be fun!

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    I am back in Cork after the Eventoblog conference in Seville over the weekend. Now I am helping with last-minute preparations for the it@cork conference. It is on this coming Wednesday and it is going to be a real ‘wow!’ event. Apart from the incredible speakers that are lined up, the delegate list is like…

  • CIX open day

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    Cork Internet eXchange (aka CIX) are having an Open Day on the morning of November 29th at 10am. This will be your final opportunity to have a gander around the innards of a data centre in the making. After the 29th, ducts will be closed and off-limits areas will be off-limits! If you are interested…

  • Cubic Telecom wins an it@cork Leader Award

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    A big congrats to Pat Phelan and the Cubic lads on Cubic Telecom’s winning the it@cork Leaders Award in the Emerging Company category. Pat was up against some very stiff competition and I am glad I wasn’t involved in the judging ‘cos I know Tom Keane of Nitrosell and Paul and Frank from YouGetItBack as…

  • 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…

  • Cork tech scene

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    There’s a nice write-up on the Cork tech scene in the Silicon Republic today