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.

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.”

Connect with Colm Lyons from Realex Payments

by Conor on December 1st, 2009

BIG thanks to Colm Lyons from Realex Payments for supporting the Christmas Connector Party this year – his company have generously helped us put on this event & we hope you make his team feel very welcome on the night !

Colm was the guy (pictured above left) who presented me with my Internet Marketer of the Year award in 2005 & his company is one of the shining lights of the Irish web scene & he is a great supporter of those trying to follow in his footsteps.

In 2005 Colm was acclaimed and rewarded for his leadership when he was a finalist of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. As an industry figure he was Director and Chairman of the Irish Internet Association for over four years – during which time the association significantly enhanced its position. In 2009 he founded the Internet Growth Alliance in early 2009 to help Irish Internet businesses. Most recently he was awarded the ‘Internet Hero Award’ at the Golden Spiders in Dublin.

The company now employs 70 people in Ireland, Great Britain and France. In addition the company currently has 15 vacancies advertised on its website, as it continues to expand its operations in Ireland and abroad.  They recently announced profits of €720,000 as turnover increase to €6.5 million. The company has experienced year on year growth since its foundation in 2000 & now process payments for over 3500 clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone, Aer Lingus, Quinn Insurance, Motortax.ie.Wow!

Connector Launches Event

by Conor on November 11th, 2009

Connector is looking for 10 new businesses to step forward and tell us their story at a great new Connector Event on the 26th November 2009.  We are also accepting newish businesses who have a new web site, web or mobile app or video to show off.  Maybe you have a new fashion design ?  Maybe a new killer home made chocolate bar ?  You tell us what you been up to and we will help you spread the word !

Does this sound like you or a friend of yours ?  If so please register your interest with Event Elephant – The final list of presenters will be unveiled on the 19th November.  Good luck !

Connector @ Windows 7 launch party

by Conor on October 28th, 2009

This was a BIG launch party given the state of the Irish economy !  Thanks to Piaras from Edelman for the invites to the eagerly awaited launch of Windows 7.  The event was held at the Button Factory and the highlight was this ’80’s tastic’ performance by Spring Break !

#Media140 Connections

by Conor on October 24th, 2009

I did not realise that Monday the 26th is a bank holiday in Ireland and I booked into a Twitter type ‘real time media conference in London, called Media 140 (with reference to Twitter’s 140 character limit). It aims to cover everything a brand needs to know about twitter & ‘real-time social media’.

I will use the time to catch up with some old friends and colleagues and report back some learnings from the conference.  The one day conference will explore the impacts of real-time social media on agencies, marketers and brands.  The hashtag for the conference is #Media140 & I hope some of Ireland’s social media heads follow the day online.

As they say – “If brands are your business, Media140 is a conference you can’t afford to miss.  Are your brands social? Are they staying ahead of competitors in the social media space? If you answered ‘no’ or ‘um, not sure…’ to either of those questions, you need to come to Media140 in London, on the 26th October 2009.”

Connecting with Martin Moylan’s latest video

by Jamie Richardson on August 18th, 2009

I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything that Martin Moylan can’t do! Check out the Canon Digital Video Contest’s Gold Award winner and his new endeavors!

Martin’s latest video, a tribute to The Dark Knight, is very impressive indeed! Not only did Martin direct this video, but played both roles using his Canon XH A1 . It’s truly a very stunning piece with great special effects as well! Work well done!

Have a look!

MARTINS DARK KNIGHT – tribute cut from Martin Moylan on Vimeo.

Hot House connectors

by Conor on May 7th, 2009

The Hot House is a great programme I spent a month on in 2008 and I met a bunch of great people I have kept in touch with since.  A good few have come down to check out Connector Meetups and here is a short interview with Michelle O’Keefe (Travel Affiliate) & Iarfhlaith Kelly (Webstrong) by Winter Foenander @ Connector No.9.

Connect with Eoghan McCabe, Damien Ryan & Michelle O’Keefe

by Conor on May 7th, 2009

We made the following videos @ Connector No.9 featuring short presentations by Eoghan McCabe (Contrast.ie), Damien Ryan (Results International Group) & Michelle O’Keefe (Travel Affiliate).

Connect with Pieter & Ronan from locle.com

by connector on May 5th, 2009

Nice guys, nice idea and we wish them the best of luck with locle.com and well done to Pieter especially for making such an interesting presentation @ Connector No.9