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

Conor recently spoke at the Hotel Website Marketing Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin on getting started on Social Media. Below are the slides for your viewing pleasure.

Hotel Website Marketing Conference @ the Crowne Plaza Hotel is a post from: Connector

The ISME (Irish Small Medium Enterprises) Roadshow featuring Connector wants to connect with regional radio stations and with local newspapers to ensure local businesses get the most from his 12 years experience of online marketing.

The aim of the roadshows are to help connect the Connectors, help local businesses learn how to market online and connect us with bloggers in the main towns of Ireland for connector.TV Conor is also happy to talk about anything to do with social media.

Connector seeks to connect with Irish regional radio and newspapers is a post from: Connector

‘Taste of Darkness’ exhibition in Frankfurt’s Dialog Museum was an unique experience. By introducing me to the world of blindness, it opened my mind to other sensations.

Stepping into the darkness was intimidating, overwhelming and dangerous experience. My brain switched to alert mode, sharpening other senses to the limit. Out of my comfort zone of the world I know, I found myself feeling panicky and anxious. However, I had the other senses to guide me: hearing, taste, smell & touch. It made me realize that the more grown up I become, the more I explore the world with my eyes only. Unlike a little child, who wants to touch and sample everything within reach.

The exhibition was exciting and fascinating. My favourite part was when we were asked to lay down on the floor and enjoy the music. It was amazing how I could feel the bits tickling my feet, experiencing the music as a sort of a sensation going through the body, awakening the muscles and nerves.

In another ‘room’, I could even touch emotions, like friendship, anxiety and loneliness; curved in wooden blocks. Even Pepsi tasted sophisticated, pleasing the taste buds on my tongue…

I think that the communication between people should be inspired by the ‘Taste of Darkness’ experience as it shows that engaging messages which stimulate all the senses, will be exciting and memorable. That creating playful and interactive content will bring a positive outcome, be the opportunity to learn and understand.

This 1,5h journey, however, left me wondering how the online world deprives people from other senses. How poor is the virtual reality as it merely depends on what we can see&watch.

In Connector we are bringing the online into offline as we believe that they are complimentary to each other. Join our upcoming event and find out yourself.

Taste of Darkness in Frankfurt is a post from: Connector

Today the Connector Interns had the pleasure of meeting with Paddy MaGuinness. Paddy, recommended to us by Don Mullan, our last interview, to meet up with. The web of connections has just begun, and Connector is keen on having many more!

Despite the fact that the chat was a little under an hour, we were able to discover a wide range organizations and projects Paddy has been involved with over the last year. A clear leader in international development, Paddy has worked with Niall Mellon Township Initiative Concern Worldwide, Traidelinks, and the Global Housing Foundation to name a few!

But most remarkably so, was Paddy’s Lifetime Humanitarian Medal presented to him by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. For more on this go check it out >here>>

We  enjoyed meeting Paddy, and hope to see where his passions take him next! The Connector Team is also looking forward for many more connections to come!

Connecting with Paddy MaGuinness is a post from: Connector

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First off I would like to start off and thank The Church right off the bat.  All of their staff did a great job cleaning, organizing, and catering to our needs for the party.  Next I will send my thanks out to our lovely ladies who were involved with the photography, and signing guests in.  They did a wonderful job and deserve a big hand.

I was very satisfied with the turnout because I honestly had no idea how many people would show up.  It is great to sit above the bar and observe people who have to move people out of the way just to get to the bar.  This made me smile and I realized that we threw a kick ass party for students!!

Lastly I would like to say how much I enjoyed working with Jamie on this event.  She was a great co-worker, and as a team we worked well together to throw this bang. I look forward to planning more parties in the future for large amounts of people.

~Andrew~

The Connector Intern Party! is a post from: Connector

“I’m an ideas man.”

 This is perhaps the most unmistakable quality about Don Mullan. Ideas. He is full of them. Social entrepreneur, humanitarian, author, world traveler, top mobile phone photographer, and ideas man.

The Connector Team had the pleasure of spending a couple hours with Don a couple of weeks ago. We chatted about his recent and highly successful exhibition of photos from his Nokia phones. The exhibition, called “A Thousand Reasons for Living” was the world’s first amateur photography exhibition based solely on mobile phone cameras.

The exhibition, put on by Nokia Ireland, was a huge hit. Look at Don’s photographs, and it’s easy to see why!

It was a great pleasure to meet Don and we hope to hear more of great work from the ideas man himself!

Connections made with Don Mullan is a post from: Connector

Being an intern for Connector isn’t just something that happened by chance. Well, perhaps it was chance that landed me with Connector and Conor Lynch, but the part about being an intern here in Dublin was very much intentional. Confused? Allow me to explain.

Andrew Sigle and I pursued internships in Dublin through a program run by a company named EUSA. Essentially, we were placed in internships based on our majors in college. And now here we are, Americans, working for Connector for the summer!

Andrew and I, however, are two of many interns in Dublin this summer gaining work experience. There are quite a lot actually! Due to this wide array of people from across the U.S. doing a variety of internships throughout Dublin, we wanted to host an event in order to bring everyone together for a fun night of making connections.

Come join us on Wednesday July 29th @ The Church

Connect @ the Connector Intern Party is a post from: Connector

The Toyota iQ may be the world’s smallest 4-seater car, but its new social networking campaign is far from minuscule. Project managed by Conor Lynch as Strategic Planner @ EightyTwenty.ie , Toyota Ireland tweeted that they  are in pursuit of 4 Irish bloggers that want to test drive the iQ for the next 6 months while recording their experiences on Twitter.

This tiny car may be designed to reduce both congestion and CO2 emissions, but the buzz surrounding this campaign is growing by the minute. The chosen bloggers will get to test out the Toyota iQ for the remainder of 2009. In exchange, these bloggers will write about their adventures with the iQ. Sounds like a fun ride to me!

Interested in participating? Check out the details here >>

Toyota iQ connects with Irish bloggers is a post from: Connector