Connector Tribes Final Lineup

by Sarai Fernandez on February 23rd, 2010

Sponsor a Tribe

by Conor on February 11th, 2010

This is a great book by Seth Godin. Tribes is a great way of expressing the phenomenon of online/offline groups/communities.

We are looking for sponsors for food/drink/prizes for our Connector Tribes event in the Science Gallery. So if you are a brand wondering how you can credibly get into social media, this could be your chance!  If you connect us to a sponsor, you will win yourself a brand new unsigned copy of the Tribal Bible ;-0

Please contact Conor on 086 811 8833 or email conor [at] connector.ie for more information.

Connector ‘Tribal Love’

by Diarmuid O'Riordan on January 24th, 2010

Connector ‘Tribal Love’ – Thurs Feb 25 @ The Science Gallery, Trinity College

Connector and The Science Gallery are connecting to bring you ‘Tribal Love’. It will be an event themed around Tribal attraction in the digital age. As well as some prominent guest speakers, we will showcase some of the top Tribes from Dublin.

It’s really exciting to be connecting at this great venue. The Science Gallery ‘Love Labs: Science of Desire’ exhibition, runs from the 11th of Feb to the 12th of March 2010, and as part of this Connector ‘Tribal Love’ will look at the science of ‘group chemistry’.

Tribes are communities of connected people with shared interests & ideas. Whether its 5,000 Shamrock Rovers fans turning out to a windswept Tallaght Stadium for an Eircom League game, or 44,000 people joining a facebook group called ‘I want John Joe from the Late Late Toy Show to fix my clock’: its a human condition; to be connected to an idea; to a movement.

It promises to be one of our best events with a great mix of Tribes from the online and offline worlds featuring. Some of our old friends will be back, along with new tribes with passions for the likes of music, film, fashion and sports.

Please Click through to view our presentation and check back for more details before the event…

Connector Awards 2009

by Conor on November 30th, 2009

Here at Connector, we’re all about connecting individuals but we’re equally fascinated with connecting Tribes, which are communities with shared interests.  Back in May, we held our Connector Tribes event, and at Connector Launches we saw some new Tribes such as The Digital Times and Bloggertone launch themselves to the Digital Public.

At our Christmas Party we’d like to reward the ‘Tribes of the Year’ and today we’re delighted to announce our shortlist for Tribe of the year, congrats to:

Culch.ie
Dartmouth Square
D Light Studios
Synth Eastwood
Funky Seomra

RSVP – Register for this event on Facebook Events (or if you don’t have a Facebook account, Register Here >>)

We will also be announcing 2 Connector ‘Person of the Year’ Awards (Male & Female) on the night. The awards are for friends of Connector who have had a successful year worthy of some peer recognition.  So why not come along to our Christmas Party with some friends and see who has been crowned with one of these new awards.  We’ll also be giving our predictions for the people & tribes to watch in 2010, same as we did with our ‘Top 10 to watch in 2009‘.

The night is sponsored by Peroni and we can’t wait to celebrate our great year with you. We hope to see you there & before then, next week is Tribes Week and we’ve written about each of our five shortlisted Tribes. Check back here to see if you can spot your Tribe and you can check out our Tribes page for more info.

Connector will be giving a Tribes workshop in the new year which will include some really important advice on getting sponsorship, utilising social media to it’s full potential, community management and content creation including podcasts, webTV and blogging. Email conor or rob [at] connector [dot] ie for more information about this event.

Synth Eastwood – Connector ‘Tribe of the Year 2009′ (Shortlisted)

by Conor on November 30th, 2009

As part of Tribes Week, we are featuring all of our shortlisted Tribes on the Connector Blog today. Each of these Tribes have been shortlisted for the Connector Tribe of the Year award. The winner will be announced at Christmas Connector.

Synth Eastwood is a music, art and technology based group that presents different artist’s work from around the world at a gig type exhibition.

As they say themselves:

Since the group’s first show in May of 2006, the number of artists submitting has doubled for each show. In addition to the submitted work bands are invited to play, along with the Synth Eastwood band who perform a set based on the show’s theme. In fact all facets of the show even down to the layout and structure of the exhibition space are considered in relation to the brief.

Check out their presentation at Connector Tribes:

Connector Launches Review

by Rob Cumiskey on November 27th, 2009

Thursday the 26th of November 2009
Kobra Bar, Leeson Court Hotel, Dublin 2.

Connector decided to create an event based around new business ventures. By using connections made through previous events run by Connector, Conor was able to gather a group of new innovative entrepreneurs and invited them to speak on the night.

These businesses included: Digital Times, Bloggertone, Event Elephant, Style Tonic, Webstrong (relayto), Progressive Productions, Photo Ireland, O’Leary Analytics and finally Jumper Productions.

Each of these businesses had 5 minutes to showcase their ideas, in front of many people in the business community. In following the Connector theme, the speakers were able to network with other organisations in a variety of different areas with the hope of making connections.

Conor decided that it would be of good spirit to support the Mo’vember Charity in aid of Cancer. With numerous kind donations made on the night. Thanks everyone!!!!

Overall, the night was a huge success, new innovative business ideas were shared and many expressed a huge interest in the Connector event.

Check out the event photos on Facebook.

By Sarah Bell and Siobhan McSweeney

Please see below for last night’s Powerpoint (excluding Digital Times)