Tag: IT@Cork

  • Thanks Microsoft

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    Tom Raftery
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    Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not shy about taking potshots at Microsoft. However, recently Microsoft impressed me mightily so it is only fair that I acknowledge that here. Microsoft Ireland are the main sponsors of the upcoming IT@Cork Web 2.0 half day conference. When the whole controversy broke about O’Reilly’s issuing…

  • IT@Cork Web 2.0 Mini Conference Google Calendar

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m involved in the organisation of the June 8th, IT@Cork Web 2.0 mini-conference, as I have mentioned previously. I’ve set up an IT@Cork Web 2.0 calendar with Google Calendar. It has the schedule for the talks and a bloggers dinner the evening before which Damien is organising (thanks Damien!). The calendar has two ways you…

  • When is a good day to hold a conference?

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    I am involved with the not-for-profit, IT Professionals networking organisation, IT@Cork. We have our annual conference around the end of November – last year’s was spectacularly successful with speakers like Robert Scoble and Charles Handy. I thas come time to organise this year’s conference and I’m wondering what is the perceived wisdom on good days…

  • Web 2.0 conference in Cork attracts international speakers

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    Tom Raftery
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    IT@Cork – the not-for-profit, networking organisation for IT professionals, is holding a half-day conference on Web 2.0 on June 8th next. The speaker list includes Salim Ismail, co-founder of PubSub, Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the business blogging book Naked Conversations and Fergus Burns, founder of Nooked. The preliminary conference agenda is as…

  • Qumas sponsors second IT@Cork podcast series

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    Tom Raftery
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    Wohoo! Qumas today agreed to sponsor the second IT@Cork Member’s podcast series (the first series was sponsored by Microsoft Ireland). This is great news for the IT@Cork podcasts – they have landed yet another blue chip sponsor and continue to publish interviews with Thought Leaders from the IT@Cork membership. [Disclaimer – I run the podcasts…

  • Business uses of RSS event in IT@Cork

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    Tom Raftery
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    IT@Cork are running an event in the National Software Centre Atrium next monday evening on the Practical Business uses of RSS. There will be speakers from Microsoft Ireland, the CSO and Nooked. Microsoft’s speakers will be starting the event explaining how rss is set to become ubiquitious – what with it being built into the…

  • IT@Cork member podcasts begin

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    Tom Raftery
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    IT@Cork is a not-for-profit organisation which facilitates networking amongst IT Professionals – by the holding of evening events, mini-conferences and the annual conference. IT@Cork has 220+ member companies drawn from fmcg, to banks, to pharmas to IT companies. I have been working with IT@Cork to set-up a members podcast and we published the first podcast…

  • Anyone have contact details for Tim O'Reilly?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I am organising a Web 2.0 mini-conference for IT@Cork for early June of this year. I have some good speakers lined up but I’d love to get Tim O’Reilly along to speak since he wrote a seminal piece on Web 2.0. Also, the fact that Tim is from Cork originally and this is an IT@Cork…