Category Archive for "Twitter"

Did George Hook Cause the Twitter Numbers to Jump?

I was part of a panel at the last Enterprise Ireland eBusiness Masterclass moderated by Darragh Doyle and had the pleasure of listening to Roger Galligan from Cognotent (also Irish blogs and Irishpressreleases.ie).   In his presentation he discussed how the traditional media was…

How much time does social media take?

The IIA Social Media Working Group (disclosure – I am a member of this group) produced a white paper on blogging and launched it at a well attended breakfast last week.   Brendan Hughes, eCommerce manager with FBD, Michelle Daly, Paddy Power…

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…

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…

Will the Arts lead the Web 2.0 Wave?

The Arts Council ran a thought provoking conference yesterday in Dublin Castle entitled New Media New Audience.  The attendees ranged from small theatrical organisations to service providers.  It was positioned as a thought platform but the organisation went beyond that…

What a Twitterific Awards

Congratulations to Pat Phelan who won the overall IIA  NetVisionary award last week.  This really is the awards season with Damien Mulleys Web Awards earlier in the month and the Golden Spiders still to come.  The awards was one of the first…