Graphic / Web Designer Wanted – Dublin Temp Job

by Connector on May 30th, 2011

A Connector partner is looking for Graphic/web designer for 2 weeks (7th – 17th June)

Requirements:

Be able to change existing layouts of the print adverts, brochures etc in Quark Xpress 8
Some knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Update of the websites ran on wordpress.
Design of the HTML emails. (Changing the existing template).
Basic knowledge of HTML.

Ideally, that would be one person. But also can be one for Graphics and another for web updates.
Basic training. Hourly rate.

My phone 0863244506 (text pref)
Email: victor.terent@gmail.com

Connector Brainstorm @ Science Gallery, 6pm, Thurs 25th Nov

by graeme on November 7th, 2010

WHO : www.connector.ie – organising “social networking social events” where we bring together diverse on-line & off-line communities to make new social, commercial & business connections.

WHAT : Four great opportunities for you to participate in our NEW event format called Connector Brainstorm :

1. BRAINSTORM : REGISTER TODAY to join in the Connector Brainstorm which is for members of Connector.

6 tables, 6 topics, 8 to 10 participants per table
3 brainstorming sessions lasting 40 minutes per session
With each table chaired by a moderator, using different brainstorming techniques
Awards for each moderator’s  selected “Most Valuable Ideas” and for the Brainstorm’s “Most Valued Players” of the evening

2. CONNECT : Meet & make new business & social contacts across a diverse range of businesses and services in Dublin.

3. LEARN : We have draft outline of 6 topics for discussion but you have the opportunity to sponsor  your own topic of discussion. Use the Connector Brainstorm event to make new connections & generate new ideas for your chosen topic.

4. SHOWCASE : Promote, advertise, market and sell your new business idea, product or service by sponsoring one of our 6 tables and brainstorm a topic specific to your business.

WHY : an excellent, cost-effective opportunity to promote & leverage your brand, product or service during & after the Connector Brainstorm event. It’s not always what you know, but rather who you know that will open new doors of opportunity.

WHEN : Thursday 25th November at 6pm

WHERE : Science Gallery, The Naughton Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Pearse Street, Dublin 2

HOW :  To participate in the Connector Brainstorm event, REGISTER NOW to secure your place.

For more information on sponsoring a topic or table at this event, please contact Conor Lynch at 86 8118833 or via email at conor@connector.ie

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

by malte on November 4th, 2010

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

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

by malte on November 1st, 2010

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 (7-9) for The Long Debate:Marie Walsh, Frédéric Herrera & Gordon McConnell

by malte on November 1st, 2010

Marie Walsh, Chartered and European Patent Attorney

Marie Walsh has been advising entrepreneurs on their intellectual property rights and particularly, on patents and trademarks for the past 20 years.  Marie graduated from the University of Limerick in 1987 with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Chemistry. Marie is a qualified Irish and European Patent Attorney and is also qualified as a UK Chartered Patent Attorney. She is also qualified as a Community Trade Mark Attorney. Marie has an MBA from Open University Business School and is an active alumni member.

Marie has provided training seminars on Intellectual Property to innovators at various seminars and conferences.  Marie is also a lecturer on the IP Diploma course of The Law Society of Ireland.

Frédéric Herrera

Enterprise Development Executive & Enterprise Platform Programme Manager at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design, and Technology. Frédéric Herrera’s Specialties: Digital Libraries and currently managing a gvt-funded programme for 50 start-ups operating in the digital media sector.

Gordon McConnell

Gordon McConnell is Deputy-CEO and Director of Business Development for the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship. From 2005 he was as Head of Strategy and Administration in the President’s Office in Dublin City University, and from 2009-2010 was Director of Programmes for the Ryan Academy.

Gordon has a background in industry, venture capital, strategic consulting and start-ups. He was part of the founding group for two start-ups; the first was a dotcom Business-to-Business site that was established in 1998, while the other was the HotOrigin early stage venture capital company in 2000, which invested in early stage software companies.

Gordon has worked with a range of corporate clients in strategy, while consulting in Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He has also advised several technology start-ups since he left HotOrigin. Gordon has taught a number of subjects at graduate level including entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and organisational management in a number of higher education organisations including All Hallows College, Dublin City University, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has also produced research on a number of areas including the development of high technology clusters, innovation in social entrepreneurship and the digital media sector in Dublin. He also authors the Ryan Academy blogs.

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

Connector Brainstorm @ Science Gallery!

by graeme on October 28th, 2010

Get a Job Jumpstart from ICBE’s Begin Again

by Dave Dungan on October 7th, 2010

With the tough economic times more and more professionals are finding themselves out of a job. They are finding that there are little or no opportunities in their areas’ of expertise despite years of study and hard work. Most are also keen to adapt and re-skill in order to get back to work.

The Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE) have recently launched the Begin Again™ initiative aimed at getting unemployed professionals back into the workplace.

The programme offers a combination of work-placement, training and mentoring  and focuses on maximising canditates current strengths, but also helping them to adapt to new roles.

They will be holding introductory meetings entitled ‘Jobs Jumpstart’ on Thursday 14th October in north and south Dublin.

• Stillorgan Park Hotel, 10am-12pm (South Dublin)
• Dublin Skylon Hotel, 2:30pm – 4:30pm (North Dublin)

These meetings aim to introduce young professionals to the Begin Again™ programme and show them the potential to get their careers back on track.  The programme is free and you can retain your social welfare payments while you are with the host company.  Over 20% of placements have secured new jobs since the start of the programme in August.

For more information on these events please visit the official Begin Again™ Facebook Page and these events have also beed added to LinkedIn here for North Dublin and here for South Dublin.

Begin Again Facebook and LinkedIn Inbox X Reply | David Dungan ✆ to me show details 4:25 PM (1 hour ago) Hi Conor, The Begin Again Facebook Page is setup and viewable here The events have been added to the events tab and also appear on the wall There is an add created with a preliminary budget of €25 per day that will show on Facebook for users in Dublin The events have also beed added to LinkedIn here (North Dublin) and here (South Dublin) Cheers – David Dungan Connector Email: david.dungan@connector.ie Mob:0879853029 Reply Forward David is not available to chat

Connector Intern Dublin Event featuring Bobby Kerr from Dragons’ Den

by Andrew Sides on July 15th, 2010

There are many intern groups here in Dublin this summer and the interns here at Connector have been hard at work planning an intern event for all them. We wanted to create a night that brought everyone together, is fun, educational, and for a good cause.  Check it out here on Facebook.

The intern event will be benefitting the not-for-profit Barnardos, a local Dublin charity that serves the people of Dublin. The event will be on July 28^th from 6pm – 10pm at The Church. There is a suggested donation of €4 and every cent will go towards Barnardos. The Church has kindly donated a free welcome drink and finger food to all the interns that come and show their support for Barbardos.

We will also have several speakers for the night; a representative from Barnardos to talk about the work that they do, Bobby Kerr an entrepreneur that started the largest coffee company in Ireland, and Neil Leyden from the exciting new Irish global marketing project called Gateway Ireland.

We will be raffling off great prizes as well, including but not limited to a great 3 day trip around Ireland courtesy of Shamrocker Irish Adventures, 1 Bottle of Premium 18 year old Jameson Whiskey and much more!  We hope to see all the interns that are here in Dublin out for this special night of fun, community, and excitement.

You will receive a raffle ticket for every €3 donation or two raffle tickets for €5.

Andrew and Shelsea will be the MCs of the event for the evening and can’t wait to see you all there.

Burson-Marsteller Fortune Global 100 Social Media Study

by Connector on June 14th, 2010

This is an interesting  article from the Burson Marsteller Blog….

‘Following in the footsteps of consumers, large international companies are now becoming active participants in social media. A recent Burson-Marsteller study found that 79 percent of the largest 100 companies in the Fortune Global 500 index are using at least one of the most popular social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs.’

Read more about Innovation_and_insights on Burson-Marsteller’s Blog:

Crafting outstanding presentations using storytelling techniques

by Connector on June 14th, 2010

Conor saw this presentation being made for the first time at Bizcamp in Dublin recently.

It covers applying  storytelling techniques to create outstanding presentations for a better engagement with the audience.

Claudio really is a good presenter!

Please take a look and see what your story would be for your next presentation!