Obama Online – Was it really that easy?

Joe Rospars from Blue State Digital presented a quick overview in the Camden Court Hotel on Wednesday 25th on how online media helped win the US presidential election.  The alert for the bloggers orientated session was hastily sent out and got…

Obama Online – Was it really that easy?

Joe Rospars from Blue State Digital presented a quick overview in the Camden Court Hotel on Wednesday 25th on how online media helped win the US presidential election.  The alert for the bloggers orientated session was hastily sent out and got…

Twitter Mosaic – Cool Tool – Now what do I do!

New Twitter applications seem to pop up on a daily basis. I tried Twitterfone recently but discovered I need to speak a little bit more carefully as first post was a bit garbled. Stumbled across this one on IGO People…

Online giving new life to business cards

Conferences, Business After Hours and networking events usually result in the collection of a large selection of business cards.  In the not so distant past they were collated alphabetically and neatly arranged into rollerdecks before gathered dust.  The proactive ones followed up with…

UK Digital Brands Coming to Ireland

Net imperative ran an interesting event this week in Guinness Storehouse.  It was a pretty full house, wide range of understanding amongst the attendees, had a good line up and strangely enough was free.  Perhaps Piaras was right about the future…

What you were doing yesterday might damage what you are doing today

Trevor Holmes kindly pointed out to me that my ‘What I’m doing’ message on Linked In was out of date.  My message was that I was busy pitching, which was true at the time, but looked very odd when I…

PR and Bloggers Can Live Together

Last nights PR and Blogger meet up in Edelmans offices passed off with any physical harm to any of the attendees.  Billed as collision course the atmosphere was pretty friendly and more curious than frictional.  Overall some interesting points: – most…

Some likely changes to the PR industry!

I started this post as ‘the Future of PR companies’ but it was too broad and looked like an enormous post so I have distilled to some observations. The public relations industry is posed to change enormously and at the…

Recession impact on ORM

At a recent meeting someone shared a short story with me that brought up how the recession and people having a lot of time and possible greviences on their minds could create real Online Reputation Management issues. In this instance the founder…

Business Blogging Survey

One of the Irish Internet Association Working Groups is currently undertaking a blogging survey to gain insight into how much time companies spend blogging, why they blog and how they measure success.  Blogging is still at relatively early stages in…

Happy Christmas Videos

Last year we plunged into the 40 foot for our online Chritmas video greeting but this year we have gone with a more sedate theme of “the night before Christmas and not a Chritmas tree to be found.   This…