Connector Studio creates ‘How To’ digital videos for HP Snapfish

by Connector on August 30th, 2010

Below is a video Connector recently produced for HP Snapfish.  Although this video is for the UK market and used in a large marketing campaign with the Daily Mail, we had a happy client for this ‘How To’ video produced here in Dublin.

The lovely voice you hear is from the excellent voice-over artist Nicola Lyndsay sourced from Piehole.ie

Connector College – Career Connections Event

by Diarmuid ORiordan on April 21st, 2010

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

Connector at launch of 'Your Country, Your Call'

by Sarai Fernandez on February 17th, 2010

Conor met the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese & her husband Martin, at the presentation of  “Your Country, Your Call’. This is Martin’s initiative to help Ireland come out of a period of economic depression in 2009.  The event was help in the National Library & was hosted by MC Mark Little who made the big announcement.

‘Your Country, Your Call’ is a national competition which aims to find two transformational proposals that will enable the Irish economy to grow. There is a broad range of categories from sports and arts to communications and technology, and the best part:  a prize fund of €200,000.

I was invited to the blogger review event on Monday evening in the Guinness Storehouse & hear about the exciting plans for YCYC.  Some of the team are also coming to the Connector Tribes event next week to tell us more about this great contest.  Please check it out at www.yourcountryyourcall.com

Connecting @ Love Lab Launch

by Conor on February 11th, 2010

Look who I connected with @ Love Labs launch at the Science Gallery this evening … !  The one & only Chris De Burgh who opened the exhibition with a few nice thoughts on ‘love’ & his lovely daughter, the lovely Rosanna Davison, former Miss World.  Chris has sold 45 million records … WOW !  That’s a lot of Red Ladies.

Congrats to the Michael John Gorman & the brilliant Science Gallery team for another great event & don’t forget Connector is there on the 25th February for the Connector Tribes event @ 7pm.  Yes, some Tribal Love is on the way !

The Clinic connections

by Conor on November 1st, 2009

I was delighted to see my friend Natalia Kostrzewa make her accomplished debut on The Clinic on RTE this evening.  Natalia has been a great help with Connector and I am delighted my prediction for her is coming to pass !  Wishing her all the best with The Clinic and all her great work !  The photo is of Natalia & myself having a wee chat at the Connector  Halloween bash.

Connect @ McDonnell Connor's launch party

by Conor on October 6th, 2009

Michelle Connor is the lovely wife of EightyTwenty’s David Connor and is making a big name for herself as a professional photographer.  Michelle is very well suited to being the other side of the lense as you can see and as it happens her sister Suzanne McCabe is a well known Irish model.

Michelle is busy organising a night out in Krystle for a small launch party to kick off McDonnell Connor photography next week with her new business partner, the highly accomplished photographer, Tim McDonnell.  The event is on the 15th October in Krystle Night Club and starts at 8pm.

Guests on the night can enjoy having their portrait taken in our portable studio – all images will be professionally edited and available for our guest to see the next day on our fanpage.  We have a top makeup artist there on the night to provide the ladies with last minute touch ups before they hit their shoot!!

Friends of Connector are all invited, especially those with an interest in digital photography & I look forward to checking it out.  If you want to come along, pls RSVP to michelle [@] mcdonnellconnor.com

Their fields of expertise range from Corporate Assignments to family portraits and fashion photography. Special studio opening offer is a full photo session, all images professionally edited and your favorite image supplied in contemporary 12×18 inch bloc – all this for only E100.00 for a limited time only.

With hi-spec studios in Howth and Ranelagh, they cater for all photography requirements.  Check out their large work showcase at www.mcdonnellconnor.com or become a fan of their Facebook Fanpage.

Connecting with the stunnalicious Dita Von Teese

by Conor on September 26th, 2009

I was at a great lunch reception in Bentleys on St. Stephens Green on Thursday at the launch of Vodafone 360.  Why was it so good ?  Well the amazingly stunnalicious Dita Von Teese was there along with loads of people I know including my ex-colleagues at Vodafone and bunch of fellow bloggers & tech journalists too.  Plus the food was great, location perfect and it was a sunny day in Dublin so thanks to Niall Harbison for the invite & Fred for the great video below.

Pictured is the internationally renowned burlesque star and style icon, Dita von Teese who is surrounded by a 360 degree wall of mirrors. Unfortunately she only seemed to be in the room for a couple of minutes and no attempt seemed to be made to accomodate photo bloggers to get photos of her or with her.

As for the service, it looked great on the touch screen devices it was demonstrated on and it defintely something I’d like to try as my operator O2 don’t have anthing quite like it.  In essence, Vodafone 360 is a brand new set of internet services for your mobile and PC which gathers all your friends, communities, entertainment and personal favourites in one place.  At its heart Vodafone 360 has the most personal address book available, bringing together all of your contacts from your mobile phone, social networks and other internet accounts.

Connector on Near FM with Jacqui Carroll

by Conor on September 15th, 2009

Today I will be interviewed on Dublin’s Near FM by my old friend Jacqui Carroll.  We worked together on a short movie project called ‘CONMAN‘ a few years ago and it was so much fun ! Jacqui has done lots of MC & presenting work and was always very professional with her media work.  I have not heard her on radio but am sure she does a great job, knowing Jacqui !

We will be chatting about Connector for 15 minutes at 10.30am & the details are as follows -

‘LIFELINE’ on Near 90 FM
Wednesday 16th September 2009
9.30 – 11am
Watch online www.near.ie/webcam
Repeated @ Midnight

Connector Fashion Event

by Conor on August 30th, 2009

Connector is organising events every month for over a year now and we have some very interesting events lined up for Autumn & Winter 2009.  So we look forward to meeting you at one or all of the evenings we are organising entitled ‘Connector Fashion’, ‘Connector Music’ & ‘Connector Movies’.  The idea is to showcase these interesting areas for a unique evening of digital entertainment & networking.

We are looking for volunteers, speakers, partners & sponsors and interested parties can contact conor@connector.ie

Connector Fashion, Date TBC, October 2009, Dublin 2

Connector Intern Andrew's Farewell

by Jamie Richardson on August 19th, 2009

Summer is nearly over, and that could only mean that Andrew and I will part ways with Connector …at least in the geographical sense.

In fact, Andrew has already departed! Last week was the end of his internship program, so we celebrated his farewell last Thursday evening. We started the night out at O’Donoghues and later met up with BalconyTV’s Tom, Stephen & their intern Jess for a wonderful farewell meal at Hugo’s.

The night was great fun, and we got to enjoy live music from Tom who was performing at Hugo’s. Incredible music Tom, great job!

There was definitely a “Connector” theme to the night, with Andrew’s gift of Connector-colored cufflinks from Conor, as well as a wine bottle that looks oddly familiar …

What a great summer it’s been and we’re undoubtedly sad to see Andrew go! I’ve got a couple days left before I’m heading back across the Atlantic as well . . .