The Long Debate is at hand:

Check out now the next three scholars, that will bring their expertise to the exciting debate on 11. Nov. We strongly recommend to register now, click here

Did you know: The “Long Debate” is an evening full of lively discussion and networking. Inventorium has devised a special debate format, 18 of Ireland’s key contributors and commentators have been invited to give their views and opinions. Each speaker will present his or her viewpoint for five minutes, the emerging conversations will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.

Ron Immink

Ron is a serial entrepreneur and author of a number of best selling business books. He has started several, grown a few and sold one company. Ron has worked in entrepreneurship, training, consultancy, publishing, education, innovation and tech transfer.

In 2007, following his passion for books, new learning and entrepreneurship he started Bookbuzz™, a company that has developed an innovative, proven and highly effective learning and consultancy methodology that harnesses the collective wisdom of the organisation, using inspiring business books to stimulate ideas, design innovative strategies, improve decision making and boost fresh thinking. Clients of Bookbuzz include some leading multinationals in Europe and the USA.

At the same time he co-founded www.smallbusinesscan.com in partnership with Ulster Bank. A free and open platform where owner managers can create and share the business knowledge, the insights, the experience and the contact networks needed to generate new growth for their own business and create a new beginning for the economy. Smallbusinesscan is now the fastes growing business support website in the UK and Ireland.

His expertise is around entrepreneurship, story telling, narrative, dialogue learning, social learning, social media and collective wisdom.

Ron Immink

John Collins

John Collins is assistant business editor with The Irish Times. A journalist for 16 years he specialises in technology, business and internet issues. He has been contributing to the paper’s popular technology pages since 2005 and has been on staff since early 2007.
He was the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Technology Journalist of the Year in 2006. Prior to joining The Irish Times he was a freelance journalist contributing to publications including The Sunday Business Post, Computerscope, Business Plus, Ireland.com and Smart Company.

John was editor of PC Live! Ireland’s best selling computer and Internet magazine for five years. He has been online since 1995, and has written for a range of Irish and international publications including The Irish Independent, Silicon Republic, Business & Finance, TVB Europe, The Web Magazine, i-D, Hot Press and Apple Report.
John has commented on technology and business issues for a range of radio and TV programmes for both RTÉ and independent stations, as well as co-presenting the RTÉ2 series, TechTV.

John Collins

Theo Lynn

Theo Lynn is a lecturer in Management in the Dublin City University Business School where he teaches at postgraduate level on Strategic Management. Theo holds a Ph.D. in Law from University College Dublin and the title of his thesis was “The Irish Corporate Governance System and the Role of Irish Occupational Pension Funds as Institutional Monitors”. He is the Programme Chairperson for the MSc in Business Management, is Deputy Director (Technology) of the Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre (www.link.dcu.ie) and is Principal Investigator on the Global Grid for Learning project (www.globalgridforlearning.org).

Theo Lynn

A unique format and networking opportunity: We invite you to this very special discussion The Long Debate which will take place as part of the Inventorium project, during Dublin Innovation Festival. Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

The Long Debate: Speakers (13-15) out now – expertise at hand! – Ron Immink, Theo Lynn & John Collins is a post from: Connector

A unique format and networking opportunity

As part of the Inventorium project, The Long Debate will take place on the 11 Nov during the festival, at NDRC. An evening of lively discussion and networking, Inventorium have devised a special debate format, 18 of Ireland’s key contributors and commentators have been invited to give their views and opinions. Each speaker will present his or her viewpoint for five minutes, the emerging conversations will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

The Long Debate – get involved now: A unique format and networking opportunity. is a post from: Connector

Speakers (10-12) for The Long Debate: Alan Costello, John Handelaar,  Steve Gotz

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

Alan Costello

Alan Costello, BSc, MBA, Managing Director of Ruby Consulting.  Ruby Consulting current focus is on supporting start-ups in commercialisation and assisting them with funding from angel/family funds and VCs.  Alan has worked extensively with 3rd level Institutions & Entrepreneur programmes as VC/commercialisation advisor and business plan judging.  He is also Commercial Development Manager on www.spiritofireland.org, a €multi billion renewable energy project in Ireland.  Alan’s background is in Blue Chip Pharmaceutical companies covering traditional Pharma, Biopharma, Medical Devices and Generics, spanning areas from R&D to product marketing.

John Handelaar

Founder Kildarestreet.com and Broadcast Media Professional.

Steve Gotz

Commercial Development Manager at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation.

We invite you to this very special discussion The Long Debate which will take place as part of the Inventorium project, during Dublin Innovation Festival.

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

Speakers (10-12) for The Long Debate: Alan Costello, John Handelaar & Steve Gotz is a post from: Connector

I was delighted to speak to a packed room at the Dublin Web Summit and made a lot of new local and international connections.  Click on the image for a link to for the Late Late Show appearance by Dublin Web Summit organiser Paddy Cosgrave with Jack Dorsey and Michael Birch, the founders of Twitter & Bebo respectively.

Seeing this event up close and how the DWS has progressed since the first event last year has been fantastic.  Huge credit to Paddy who is a seriously talented young entrepreneur who is destined for more success with the Dublin Web Summit series and Founders. Some of you may recall I put Paddy in the ‘Connector Top 10 for 2010′ and he has certainly had a great year!

Michael Birch spent an hour or two as barman in the Guinness Storehouse Gravity bar last night where I snapped him beside a copy of the Founders book.  This book is a cracking idea for all the guests as it is a photo album of their weekend ready for them to take away before they leave the country.

Above I am pictured with Joe Fernandez who is the founder of Klout which is a great tool for measuring online influence.

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Dear Friend, enjoy this great clip. The next Connector Event is around the corner.

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Connector has two interns working with them from the States this summer. Shelsea and Andrew have joined the team last week and will be with us for six weeks. They have come through EUSA, a not-for-profit internship organization that every summer brings 300 interns to Dublin so they get work experience in Irish companies.

Here it is some more background about Shelsea & Andrew:

Shelsea Rawson is currently attending Seattle University as a junior and a strategic communications major. She is very interested in non-profit event planning and social media. She is involved in on-campus activities such as Dance Marathon, a 16 hour event benefitting Seattle Children’s Hospital; not only did she help start the project but also was internal co-director for the 2009 marathon. Other campus organizations that Shelsea has been involved with include the Orientation Advisor program and the Student Events and Activates Council, where she brought bands to campus bi-monthly for students to enjoy for free. Shelsea is also a supervisor at the Connolly Center and works in the Student Activities Office as an information assistant.

Outside school, Shelsea likes to volunteer her time to others and was recently involved with Neighborhood House, a non-profit organization in Seattle. Her most recent project was the organization’s annual breakfast event, which will house more than 800 people at the Seattle Convention Center.
In her spare time, Shelsea enjoys being outdoors and spending time with loved ones. If she ever gets a free moment, Shelsea can be found enjoying herself on a hike or somewhere near the water. She loves to travel and is currently on a nine month traveling adventure through Europe and Central America.

Andrew Sides is currently a Graphic Design major at American University in Washington, DC.  He was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri where his family still resides. Andrew is very involved in his community service fraternity at AU, Alpha Phi Omega. From 2009 to 2010 Andrew was the Membership Vice President for the fraternity and will continue to be heavily involved into his senior year.

Andrew’s major is also his passion. He loves to work on graphic design and spends most of his free time learning, researching and creating graphic design work. He was the web intern for the women’s pro soccer team in DC in 2009. He tries to integrate his passion with his work as often as he can. He loves soccer so mixing his internship with graphic design was a unique opportunity.

In his spare time Andrew follows the United States national team and attends matches as often as he can. He also enjoys traveling, music, video games and movies. His long term goals are to become a packaging designer, branding designer, or a movie poster designer, or maybe all three. He is currently in Dublin working with Connector and has really enjoyed the time he has spent here thus far.

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Connector college brought together speakers from Google, Microsoft, Careers Coach and Connector. The event for students took place at the Science Gallery and was themed around ‘I have my qualification, now what?’. It had some great insights for students in attendance on how to brand yourself, networking and job application techniques.

To organise the event, Connector collaborated with DCU masters student Roisin Lyons. Roisin did a really great job in organising the venue, bringing together our speakers and publicizing the event. Well done and thanks Roisin!

Bryna McCool works as a Senior Recruiter at Microsoft Ireland. She began proceedings and spoke about the process of graduate Recruitment. She continued on with some great interview tips before handing over to Careers Coach, Greg Fry.

Greg set up Careers Coach in March 2009 with the aim of assisting people with their Career Transition. He focused on using social media to build your personal brand, and urged attendees to bring these connections offline also.

Lindsay Brown continued the evening. Lindsay is a Recruiting Specialist. She recently moved to an in-house recruitment role with Google, having previously worked on the agency side. She gave great advice to students on dealing with recruitment agencies, techniques used by recruiters, networking and personal branding. Check out Lindsay ‘s great blog.

Conor Lynch rounded up proceedings and had a few hard acts to follow!  Conor capped off the evening with some good advice for students and information about how Connector gives students a chance to get great work experience and make connections . We collaberate with students, graduates & interns to run events, marketing campaigns and much more.

The ‘Career Connections’ event helped Roisin Lyons gain valuable project management experience, improve her personal brand and make some great connections. If any students would like further information about joining the Connector Team, don’t hesitate to contact conor [at] connector dot ie

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Are you interested in Digital Media, Social Media, PR, Marketing, or Event Management? Would you like to gain work experience?

Connector is looking for volunteers willing to gain work experience contributing to Connector.ie content and assist in our offline events.

The areas of activity would be digital and social media marketing, blogging, digital video/ web TV production, contact database and eCRM management, PR and advertising, mobile marketing, sponsorships, attending events, networking & administration.

So if you have excellent communication skills, have  IT skills & experience using the Microsoft Office suite, the ability to work in a team environment, good attention to detail & accuracy and enthusiasm in emerging technologies, send a cover letter and CV to conor@connector.ie.

You can get more info about Connector Campus, which shows the work we have done up to now within the colleges.

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If you were down at the Connector Halloween Party on Thursday night, you will no doubt have been very impressed with the event presentation.  Hats off to these 3 girls who planned, promoted & managed this event with some guidance from myself.

Pictured are Mallory McSweeney, Sarah Bell & Emma Greene, the latter two being Event Management students from DBS. They were also responsible for liaising with the venue, party entertainment and our sponsors Bulmers Light and Marks & Spencer.  A BIG thanks to the girls !

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