Watch out soon for more from this enterprising bunch in the Bizz Soc in NUI Maynooth whom I met on Friday to discuss their social media.

Connector supporting the NUI Maynooth Business Society is a post from: Connector

As you may have noticed connector.ie hblog as been very quiet lately – let me tell you why.

As we now have more specialist social media services for businesses we have moved this B2B activity over to SocialMedia.ie

Our Connector events and bloggers are now active over on a new B2C site called connector.TV

So now I am going to use connector.ie as a blog for our social business and everything else that does not fit onto those two new sites. What do you think?

Chat again soon.
Conor

Connector.ie is back in action is a post from: Connector

The Connector Team has been incredibly busy in recent months and making lots of new connections and ideas we’d love to share with you!

We have lots of up-coming opportunities and are especially keen to talk to aspiring bloggers and event organizers around Ireland.

Connect with us via our Facebook page.

Connector News

• We have moved to new offices! Now you can find us at the Gateway House (133 Capel Street, Dublin), the former home of the famous dance group Riverdance.
• Did you miss Showcase Ireland? Well then you also missed Conor’s social media seminar “Meet Your Customers in the New Market Place”. You can take a look at it here.
• Check out some of the events our bloggers went to in the past couple of days! For example Annie went to have fun at RAM´s Pocket Radio´s concert while Megan attended the launch of Don Mullan´s new book.

Connector Training

• Social media can be useful for any business and they know that in the Digital Marketing Institute. That’s why they brought Conor in to lead workshops called “Social Media Marketing for Business”.
• We also launched a Social Media eBook which is based on a proven Connector 10 C´s Strategy Model and breaks down the utilization of social media into ten clear steps. Check it out!

Connector Consulting

• Conor is now a mentor of the Dublin City Enterprise Board.
• We have also acquired new clients from the field of interior design and personal transportation.

Connector Top 3 Connections

• John McColgan, Neil Leyden & the Gateway Ireland Team
• Eimear Dunne from Quirc & Dunn Design
• Quentin Ahern from Army of ID

Connector Team

• After months of great work our digital marketing executive Dave Dungan has decided to pursue a web development career in Jason Roe’s company. Thank you Dave for your great work in 2010! We’ll miss you!
• On the other hand new people are now partnering with us on projects – Igor Walter (PR), Graeme Hanna (planning), Greg Fry (training) and Shirleen Flynn (events).

Connector Meetup

• The Connector Team is going to meet up at the Dublin SoundCloud Meetup Day.
• Join us also at the Project Arts Centre where we plan on seeing the hilarious play called Connected. The tickets will be only 12 € so come and join us!
• The Facebook Garage event will be taking place at our new offices – the Gateway House – on Wednesday 9th @ 5pm. Check out more info here.

If you have any interesting news or know of any events taking place around Ireland share them with us via our Facebook page!

Connector Weekly News is a post from: Connector

The following is the presentation Conor Lynch made to the ITAA Skillsnet & the Digital Marketing Institute on Friday at DIT, Cathal Brugha.  Facebook‘s Maggie McPartlin & Julien Muller were the other speakers in an interesting and lively conversation about the role of social media in personal branding.

And if you want to get your name out there and new social media skills, remember you can get blogging experience from the new blogger network @ connector.TV
Personal Branding & Social Media – connector.ie

View more presentations from CONNECTOR.

How to build your own Personal Brand using social media is a post from: Connector

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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

Connector Brainstorm @ Science Gallery, 6pm, Thurs 25th Nov is a post from: Connector

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

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

Speakers (7-9) for The Long Debate:Marie Walsh, Frédéric Herrera & Gordon McConnell is a post from: Connector

How to create a Social Media Strategy in 10 steps is a post from: Connector