Fluffy Links – Thursday April 8th 2010

April 8th, 2010

Fantastic summary video of Blog Awards 2010 inc the funeral entrance.

Irish review site, as in As Gaeilge

TEDx Liffey is next week. Grab some tix, they’re almost gone.

Paul Dervan wants to bring charities, marketers and students together to work on projects. Great idea.

FunConf just got funner. FunConf is the one day web conference on a bus driving through Ireland. Very limited seating obviously. Speakers inc Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO.

Win an iFad, forget the aul iPad.

BeLonG To Youth Services are launching a campaign called Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week, you can follow them on twitter.

Another year, another Storyland. Follow Gerry the Butcher on Twitter. Watch him on YouTube and vote for him if you wish.

New Chemical Brothers tune, 12 mins long!
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Fluffy Links – Wednesday April 7th 2010

April 7th, 2010

Love this post from Phil about movie spoilers.

New blog, nice concept. Couch Surfing in Dublin. Great database of gaffs to rob too.

Good post from Frankie P about using multiple feeds for Facebook Notes.

New blog: Alternative Tunings. A blog about the Irish alternative music scene.

What is The Board? “The Board is a support group for your business, provided in the form of structured monthly board meetings”

Via Eoin. Some great presos on recycling campaign ideas.

Via Anrooooooo, TED talk on simplifying legal jargon.

Via the Award giving and winning Jim Carroll -> Mountain Men – Animal Tracks
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Fluffy Links – Wednesday March 31st 2010

March 31st, 2010

New blog, at least to me. Mary Egan.

TEDx Liffey is April 15th. Limited tickets. Very cheap. Speakers: Mick Wallace, The Happy Pear, ARK Change Your World, Dylan Haskins.

Grannymar once again proves to be an inspiration. I ought to have more fun.

Peig and tellys, Ireland 2010.

So this is where Jonathan is.

Uh oh, don’t tell Fran Hollywood about a foam Mario getting knifed.

Nice ideas. Nokia and World Bank fund mobile apps for/in Africa.

Amazing story of a genius thief.

Love Panti’s vid from the Blog Awards:
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Miriam O’Callaghan intros report on Death of Blogging

March 30th, 2010

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Totally awesome video I must say. Update: Yes, Charlie Brooker’s newswipe was the inspiration for this.

And Miriam is on Twitter now.

Best Blog Awards photo so far.

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Upcoming public events I’m at

March 29th, 2010

Galway, Cork, Dublin

To answer some of the emails and messages about training events:

April 14th, Blogging Workshop with Galway Executive Skillsnet.
April 22nd Building Cost Effective Reputation for your business Free for it@Cork members.
April 29th Social Media for Business in Cork with PFH – €150
May 4th Online PR Training Course in Dublin – €210

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My last Blog Awards

March 28th, 2010

Was not this one. Luckily I didn’t publicly announce my retirement. This was meant to be my last Blog Awards but a few things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go on the night so the beatings will continue til the morale improves and I’m happy with a Blog Awards. Maybe I’ll get it right the 6th time or the 7th.

Notes like the below make it all worth it though:
Note from a new blogger

Please do blog and email and give thanks to the organisers. It takes considerable effort to run this and year on year less thank you emails are sent while complaint emails go up. It makes a difference between the organisers enjoying doing this or seeing it as a chore.

Thanks to Nathalie for the photo. Thanks to Jim Caroll and Rick O’Shea for positive messages about running events.

If you’re a progressive hotel you’ll be emailing and offering your hotel facilities at a deep discount. 300 good spending bloggers, most will stay in the hotel if it’s of good value and many will take lots of pics of the place too. The Blog Awards is not going to be in Cork, Dublin or Galway next year. So loads of choices.

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Fluffy Links – Wednesday March 24th 2010

March 24th, 2010

RTE’s greatest Irish figures. Please. Production company guy on radio the other day made it sound like it was designed to wind people up. Get a scientist on the list.

Meanwhile for the next six weeks RTÉ is asking the public to put forward their ideas and suggestions for how it might improve its services and meet the needs of its audience better. Make your voice heard. Do a Liveline on Liveline!

Hearing good things about the book Beating the Recession. Pat has a review up.

Eason launches an e-book store. Er, pricey.

Via Ebby. Funny and offensive. Eating off the People’s Princess.

The kids have been using the anti-kids buzz/alarm sounds for years in class. Still, clever enough of Fanta to help kids rebel.

Tories launch anti-Labour site, get mauled online within minutes. Fantastic timeline.

Lady Gaga Telephone Makeup “Tutorial”. I love the fact that a whole market can spring up of people using YouTube to try and be more like their idols. Take note.
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Training: Social Media for Business – Cork April 29th

March 23rd, 2010

Update: June 2012 – See here for more up to date courses on Social Media/Digital Marketing.

I’m doing a training course with PFH towards the end of April, €150 for the day, course max is 15. It’s fairly practical in nature. A few people have been on to me about doing a public course in Cork, so here you are. You better book it now! Email: training@pfh.ie Or ring Catherine 021 230-3010 or Sally 021 230-3040

Outline for Social Media for Business

Introduction
What is social media?
What are the current and upcoming trends in online marketing/social media

LinkedIn for business
The benefits of using LinkedIn for business
Making a LinkedIn profile that gets you and you business noticed
Seeking out leads and partners with LinkedIn
Building your reputation through sharing your expertise in LinkedIn Discussions

Facebook for business
Why is Facebook relevant to my business?
How businesses use Facebook to get custom and build reputation
Facebook Pages for business
Using Facebook’s analytics tools to better cater to your customers
Facebook Ads – Highly targeted inexpensive ads bring quality customers

Twitter for business
What is Twitter and why should a business use it?
How to interact on Twitter with consumers and other businesses
How adding value on Twitter creates strong word of mouth

Developing a social media/online marketing plan
How to figure out objectives in social media
How to measure your campaigns and see do they align with your objectives

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Fluffy Links – Monday March 22nd 2010

March 22nd, 2010

So the famous Debz is back with her Thrifty Mammy blog. Here’s a fantastic blog post on 10 great deals in Aldi.

Paddy’s day, not Patty. To be used again next year.

Like this blog from O2 Ideas room.

Oops, ad fail on the Indo.

Google says a cupla focail as gaelige.

Jonsi covers MGMT.

The end of the agency.

Via Metafilter and other sites. The Ibex
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Workshops on Design Thinking

March 20th, 2010

(Disclaimer: I’ve done work for Innovator and IntertradeIreland in the past)

Innovator are doing a few workshops on “Demand Led Innovation” around the country in the next few weeks.
Some details here.

This practical two day workshop using design thinking principles will guide you on looking at your company and markets in new ways and show you exercises on how to transform your business, allowing you to generate new revenue models for existing and new markets.

250 euros for two days, two staff can go along. More details.

Now they’ll be using the Civil Security sector (Travel security) as the industry used to develop new business ideas but the principles work for all industries. I’ve chatted to them about this and already have come up with some ideas around training and communications. Think about all the ways you can make it easier to get through airport security and less stressful, from training security staff to be more efficient and polite, to making signs that take the guesswork out of things, to iPhone Apps and even Twitter apps to pre-prep those who’ll be flying out. There’s a pretty big market for that. A lot of the time too it just iterating an existing product for a new customer or maket type.

Hoping to get to this myself.

Creating Dharma Beer 03
Photo owned by MacWalsh (cc)

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