Connector Tribes Final Lineup

by Sarai Fernandez on February 23rd, 2010

Do you trust your business & government connections?

by Conor on February 7th, 2010

Connector No. 18 Review

by Mallory McSweeney on February 7th, 2010

The Champagne Bar in Ron Black’s on Dawson Street was buzzing with the sounds of new connections being made last Thursday evening as Connector No. 18 brought together dozens of people for a few drinks, a few laughs, and of course  plenty of social networking!  To check out the photos, click here >>

January’s event featured several rounds of speed networking for those interested in making several connections in a short amount of time as well as a few tables of Connect 4 for more casual connecting.  I think there was a record number of business cards exchanged at our eighteenth event!

Connector also raised (money) for Haiti at this free event, which will be donated through Adrian Garry’s trip to Haiti.  And of course thanks to our great volunteers from DIT Event management (1st years) who helped us on the night.

Connect @ Brainfood Store

by Sarai Fernandez on February 7th, 2010

The Brainfood Store focus on gathering high quality speakers and leaders in business and marketing together to discuss and share learnings and experience, and their next event is The Digital Festival, a complete new concept in conferencing which will bring to Dublin a world class international panel to talk about different areas on Digital Marketing and Communications.

The full day seminar (8.30 to 17.00) will be on Feb 24th at the Berkeley Court Hotel and the price is 375€ (+VAT) but at Connector we have got an incredible offer: 270€ +VAT (21%). If you are interested in attending to the event, go to the Brainfood Store tickets’ website and introduce the code BFSCON. This will allow you to save over 100 euros in your tickets to the Brainfood Store. Besides that, full time students can get their tickets at a very interesting price: 100€ (VAT incl.)

The speakers at this conference include Peter Kim, managing director for the Dachis Group; Shel Israel, author of ”Twitterville”; and Brent Hoberman, Co. Founder of  Lastminute.com. For more information about the speakers, check the itinerary

Connector goes to the Movies

by Mallory McSweeney on February 7th, 2010

Last Wednesday evening Connector hosted the first of many monthly movie meet-ups at Cineworld on Parnell Street.  The group that gathered was brought together by the Dublin Midweek Movie Club facebook group and was a diverse collection of Dubs who all share a love of film! 
We saw Irish director Jim Sheridan’s latest effort, Brothers, which was thought to be a good film by all.  Afterwards, most of the group made our way to The Church on Jervis Street for a post movie drink and a fun and lively discussion about all things cinematic. 

Connector plans to continue to host a monthly movie meet up on the last Wednesday of each month, alternating between blockbusters and independent/documentary films.  Please join the Dublin Midweek Movie Club facebook to stay informed and participate in choosing next months film!  We look forward to seeing a lot of new faces at this months meet up!

Connector Networking Event @ Dublin Web Summit 2

by Sarai Fernandez on February 5th, 2010

Yesterday Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, were the keynote speakers at the Dublin Web Summit in Dublin’s Trinity College. The great expectation this event created ended up in massive crowdofover 400 people.

Other speakers as Wired’s Editor-at-Large, Ben Hammersley, and former Iona CEO, Chris Horn shared their stories and insights about the current situation in front of a very mixed audience, but all interested in entrepreneurship and theInternet.

After the conferences the delegates assisted to a Networking Event organised by Connector where each attendee had a Connector coloured badge identifying the category they worked in so as to encourage conversation and create an ‘ice-breaker’.

Conor is picture with Matt from Wordpress at the No Name Bar after-after-party !  Connector is built on Wordpress so we are big fans of his creation !  Well done to Paddy Cosgrave for organising such a great event for the Dublin web scene.

Connector Weekly – 1st Feb 2010

by Sarai Fernandez on February 1st, 2010

This week at Connector … We are about to launch Connector Training Courses, to get more info click here.

Connector @ Events

Last week was great for Connector too! We had the Speed Connector, and we fundraised to support our pal Adrian Garry’s volunteering trip to Haiti. And now we’re looking for Tribes to parcitipate in our next event “Connector Tribal Love” on the 25th Feb at the Science Gallery

Conor was a guest for the Bootcamp at Stillorgan, the show run by the SFA which helps business to become more professional, more productive and more profitable, check their next venues on the website.We are going to the

ESB Des Bishop’s Gig at the Button Factory this Wednesday with 10 winners from Connector.

The second edition of the Dublín Web Summit will be on thursday, and besides high profile speakers, Connector will organise the networking party after the workshops.

Cool things are happening in Dublin the next days: The Irish Film Institute is having a free movies day on January 8th,  the Postgrad Fair on the 16th and the Dublin Central Library will host a  free workshop for jobseekers on the 25th.

Connector Links

Some links we like on the Internet… : Business Chamber, a free tool for local networking; Sagespark, a platform with lots of tools and services for small business; Bump Technologies an application for your mobile to share contact details, and 2night a website and a magazine to help you decide where the fun is going to start.

Social Media

And some news about the Social Media: A special report on Social Networking by The Economist, new data about time spent in social networking sites and a webinar run by the Irish Internet Association.

Have a look at the latest appearances on the media: On Thursday, The Irish Independent published an interview with Conor and The Sunday Times tackled Social Networking with the Conor highlighting the issue. Besides that , Conor wrote his regular column in The Digital Times and we have sent out the January eNews.

Connect with Dublin Facebook users

by Sarai Fernandez on January 27th, 2010

A year after the great success of the First Dublin Facebook Megaparty, the second edition is coming. It will be this Saturday, January 30th, at The Purty Kitcken in Temple Bar. The party will start at 7.00, and the entrance will be free till 11.00. After that there will be a 10€ fee including a free drink.

Last year this party got to gather +1.000 people, and at the moment there are more than 300 people confirmed for the event at the Facebook group. Some of you could have noticed, it’s at the same time as Tradfest, and wonder: why? Well, because this is an international party, and proof of that is that the same event will be run in Rome and New York the same day.

DJ’s Eoin Long & Justin Walsh will perform at the party, and photos of Facebook users will be showed through a video loop. If you want your photo to appear there, you have to email it in advance as an attachment to megaparty@vivadublino.com.

Weekly Connector – 25 Jan 2010

by Conor on January 25th, 2010

By Conor Lynch & Sarai Fernandez

It’s not easy being a Connector and last week was particularly busy with long group meetings & training.  I had seperate  meetings with ‘The Board’ in NCIRL, an  ‘Anonymous Group’ in Ranelagh & the annual meeting of the Chairs of the iia Working Groups in the Digital Hub.

I received a card from the Guinness Storehouse ‘honouring’ me with the title of ‘Ambassador’ for their 10th birthday year. I can get in free only if I bring down friends who can then get 10% off the entry ticket. That’s not very much at all for an ‘Ambassador’ to SHOUT about – a better idea might have been to invite down the Connector group for one of our monthly events & generate conversation that way ?

Events Calendar

Every week Dublin hosts so many events that it can be hard to choose. And at Connector we want all you to keep connected with the coolest events, conferences, seminars, workshops and more that are being held in the city. That’s why we will now start to issue a weekly blogpost including all the interesting stuff we have been connected with, so keep an eye out for them every week.

Dublin Midweek Movie Club

The Dublin Midweek Movie Club will be meeting on wednesday 27th to watch “Brothers”  by Irish director Jim Sheridan and starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. After the film the group will go to The Church to discuss the movie over a drink.

As you know, we are hosting our Connector Nº 18 at Ron Blacks next Thursday January 28th. For those interested, you can take part in our second time to have ‘Speed Connector’. This is like speed dating or speed networking & you’ll have 3 minutes to connect with somebody else and then … move on! Don’t forget to bring your business cards and prepare your elevator pitch … there’s no time to waste. we will also have a ‘Connect 4 Contest’. You can register here.

Dublin Facebook Megaparty

Fun will continue on the 30th during the Second Dublin Facebook Megaparty, at the Purty Kitchen from 7.00. For more details, join the Facebook Group!

February Events

Those are the must-be in January, but you can start booking some events for February now – Connector ‘Tribal Love’ is on the 25th & is in the Science Gallery.  The Dublin Web Summit is on the 4th or the Brainfood Store the 24th. Both are conferences for the digital sector and both of them will have a very interesting networking after-party with Connector.

March Events

Want more? On March 4th the Irish Internet Association Social Media Group will have a half day event. Keep an eye in our blog for future details … have you any ideas for Connector Events? We’d love to hear from you!

Dublin Web Summit – 4th Feb 2010

by Conor on January 4th, 2010

You should get your ice skates on and get a ticket to the Dublin Web Summit 2 which looks like one of the best speaker lineups on these frosty green shores EVER !  At only €100 per ticket, these will be sold out in a matter of hours and are a snip at that price.

A major well done to the the one & only Mr. Paddy Cosgrave for pulling the DWS2 together and for being such a great supporter of Connector in recent months.

“Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, will be the keynote speakers at the Dublin Web Summit in Dublin’s Trinity College on Thursday, February 4th, 2010. They will now be joined by Wired’s Editor-at-Large, Ben Hammersley, and former Iona CEO, Chris Horn. For more details on speakers and what will be discussed at the Summit see the latest newsletter by clicking here.”