Archive for the social media category
Gain social media work experience with Connector
by connector on March 2nd, 2010
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.
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
Connecting with Des Bishop
by Sarai Fernandez on February 4th, 2010
Yesterday our 10 contest winners, Conor and I went to see Des Bishop at The Button Factory, sponsored by ESB Customer Supply. The gig was excellent, where Des Bishop talked about many things, among others his father’s illness, with his unique style making hilarious things that other people could find uncomfortable to talk about.
After the gig we have the opportunity to do a short interview to Des, who told us some tips for young comedians on why they should engage in social media. The video of the interview is coming soon, but for the moment here are the photographs we took with him.
This event was the final point in the campaign Des Bishop and Jim have run to encourage people to save energy during the last 6 months. We want to thank Des for his time which we enjoyed, to ESB Customer Supply and McConnells for the tickets and Eleanor for a wonderful warm-up at the event.
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.
Connector on Social Media in the Irish Independent
by Conor on January 28th, 2010
Connector made it into the Irish Independent today & thanks to John Kennedy for the opportunity. Read online version here >>
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.
The Late Late Toy Show’s John Joe connects online & offline
by Diarmuid O'Riordan on January 24th, 2010
Oh to be young again. John Joe is at that great age, he is 8. He is discovering the magic of Roald Dahl, the delight in laughing hysterically at nothing in particular and the general rough and tumble of being a happy and carefree young lad. And all of us can remember wondering what we wanted to be when we grew up: a soccer player, a farmer, a fireman, an horologist, or maybe we wanted to line out for our county on All Ireland Final day.
Now I know what your thinking, no child in their right mind would want to be a farmer with the price of milk the way it is.. Your right, it is a dead-end job. A horologist on the other hand; that’s a profession for an 8-year-old to aspire to! And thats just what our friend John Joe wants to be.
John Joe is a one of a kind. He got a style and vocabulary of an old English gent, the logic defying sense of humour only an 8-year-old can have and he wants to be an horologist when he grows up. There are 47,077 members on the “I want John Joe from the Late Late Toy Show to fix my Clock” group on Facebook, and the RTE video on YouTube has had 220,739 views. John Joe’s “Clockside mix” dance tune has had 78,784 views!
There is something more to his new found fame than just the obvious. Its very similar to the Breffmania group which has 26,816 members on Facebook. I think people in these groups are getting most of their information from the web, but they still have their quota of TV, maybe 2 or 3 shows a week. Shows like the Toy Show, The Apprentice and the X Factor are filling a lot of these people’s quotas.
The less TV people watch, the more interested they are in what shows they do actually view. Perhaps people are viewing these shows with the attitude that it is more of an event, more of a novelty; like they feel about going to the cinema. So when they do watch, They want to get online to see what everyone else thinks and to get their views across also.
Traditional media still has a huge ability to connect people, and the evidence of this is the fast growing online communities growing as a result of offline content. Perhaps the future of offline media lies largely in their ability to connect with their audience online.
Fashion blogger’s new year resolutions
by connector on January 11th, 2010
By Laura Dunne
Hello all! I hope your Christmas was filled with over-indulgence and friends and family galore as mine was. As the year (and decade for that matter) draws to a close, our focus inevitably shifts to the future and what next year will hold both personally in our careers and private lives to the emerging trends that will define the next decade.
Over the holidays, I’ve had the great pleasure of catching up with all of my favourite blogs and have even discovered a few more gems. One of the most interesting things I’ve read all year was by Yuli Ziv “On Fast Fashion Content and The Importance of Being Earnest”
Following a piece written by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Yuli felt compelled to address an issue facing all bloggers- the originality of content. Particularly in the fashion blogging realm, writers often succumb to simply re-hashing content from numerous sources in place of actually contributing to the global discourse.
While sharing content is arguably one of the most essential roles blogs play today, I can’t help but agree with Yuli that we are merely pandering to a culture which favours quantity above quality- where our sole motivation is slotting ourselves into a pop-culture driven machine where fashion bloggers the world-over are “creating” trends seemingly free of influence from the corporate retailers who have controlled what our perception of “fashionable” is for decades.
I would argue that these corporations have more control than ever before through “sponsoring” certain blogger events and “donating” products to fashion bloggers to review on their blogs- how is it that the majority of popular bloggers just so happen to be wearing basically the same clothes no matter how off-kilter they are with mainstream trends?
Yuli argues that bloggers don’t write as such but rather create content as fast as we can to capture the publics interest before others do. While I’m not from any type of creative writing background myself nor have I ever claimed to be, I myself am guilty of posting blogs just because.
My hope for 2010 is that bloggers will consider more carefully what they choose to write about and find their own voice amongst the masses. The internet should help to create social tribes and friendships which are not dependant on location but rather on mutual passions and interests- this can never occur in any real sense if we are blogging to fit in with a clique of successful bloggers who have honed their craft after years of practicing and hard work. I send you forward to consider the eBook “What Matters Now” as a template for how to face the coming year and to help remind us the power the internet can play in spreading positive messages- each of the 60 featured authors shares a thought on what should matter moving into 2010.
Here’s hoping that the next decade will be a good deal better than the last!
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.”
Connecting with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder
by Conor on November 29th, 2009
I was at a great talk by Jimmy Wales on Friday night at Trinity College as organised by the hugely impressive young entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave of Lectures Ireland. Jimmy Wales is the man behind 2 of the world’s most used web sites Wikipedia & Wikia & we chatted afterwards and found him to be very interesting as you would expect!
Key takeaway statements ‘ Culture is getting smarter’ & ‘New media means new communities’.