Connector Intern Event 2010 Review
by Shelsea Rawson on July 29th, 2010
When I plan events, it’s always more fun if it is planned for a good cause. There is something to be said for doing an event with the purpose to help another. With this intern event, Barnardos was our charity partner. Barnardos mission is to challenge and support families, communities, society and government to make Ireland the best place in the world to be a child.
To help this intern charity event come together we received sponsorship from The Church, Jameson and Shamrocker Tours. The Church allowed us to invade their club downstairs while providing us with welcome food and a free glass of wine or beer. Shamrocker donated a trip for three days around Ireland, a chance for an intern to see other parts of the country. Jameson graciously donated several bottles of their famous whiskey, along with a lunch for four, and an 18 year old bottle all for us to raffle off; along with providing our guest speakers a bottle of their gold whiskey.
Our speakers for the night were Orla Tighe and Neil Leyden.
Orla Tighe is the fundraising manager for Barnardos. She told a moving story about a little boy she had met that is in programs at Barnardos, she talked to the struggles that he has in his life and how Barnardos helped this boy and his family move towards a better life.
Neil Leyden is the project manager at Gateway Ireland. He spoke to what Gateway Ireland is striving to do. They are focusing on promoting Ireland to the world and harnessing the vast majority of people in the world with an Irish connection. He focused on people with an Irish connection around the world and how they can bring these people together for a common purpose through various social media outlets.
The event all in all was a success; we talked, mingled, danced, enjoyed ourselves, and most of all did it for a great cause. We learned about the cause and we learned about how vast the Irish culture is spread no matter where you are in the world.
We would like to give a big thank you to all of our sponsors and our speakers for coming out last night. It was a great time and we could not have done it without you.
And thanks also to Jason Roe from BTW who kindly helped us raise more money for Barnardos at his event also in The Church. Their collection brought in approx €250 which is brilliant for a meetup and much appreciated by us and Barnardos.
Dublin goes to Africa!
by Iza on May 19th, 2010
Africa Day! What a sunny and colourful day it was. The festival in Iveagh Gardens last Sunday brought a new energy and vibe to the city. The day was filled with music, dance, performances and overall it was a celebration of the diversity, potential and unrivalled energy of the continent.
The festival was organised by Irish Aid which is the government’s overseas aid programme. Working on behalf of Irish people, they help to tackle Africa’s most pressing issues such as poverty and hunger. Throughout May Irish Aid is supporting events celebrating African culture and the Irish African community.
So far Connector has been involved in various fundraising events in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Haiti and Movember.
As May in Ireland is blooming with African rhythm and beauty, Conor Lynch & the team have partnered with Emma Doherty, Will Lynch and Aidan Killian to show support to the Beautiful Gate – an NGO based in Cape Town, South Africa.
To raise funds, we’re hosting a comedy night at The Good Bits on May 28th. Till then Hakuna matata folks!
Connect online by phone
by Sarai Fernandez on December 10th, 2009
It’s only hours for the Connector Christmas Party, one of the greatest events in the whole year and a must-be if you want to be connected.
As all you know Connector runs monthly meetings where people can make professional and personal connections offline. But we want people to keep their connections online as well and to encourage that, we will raffle two wonderful social mobile phones, and all the benefits will go to the Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
The winners will get an INQ Mini 3G, courtesy of the mobile network 3. This little treat that we are offering has an authentic Twitter application, which will let you be always on’ and send tweets and retweets via the internet rather than using SMS.
It weights only 90 gr., has a 2 megapixels camera, usb and bluetooth and it also includes a ‘plug and play’ HSDPA modem enabling high-speed wireless broadband on PCs and Macs. And all this things in a tiny candy bar shaped phone with the coolest design!
Connecting For a Good Cause
by Sarai Fernandez on December 9th, 2009
A long time ago, in 1872 some good people from Dublin founded a tiny hospital for poor children. It had only 8 beds. But the idea was so successful that only 4 years after that, there was such an increase in activity that they had to ask The Irish Sisters of Charity to run the busy hospital.
Over time, this hospital grew and grew, andis now known today as The Temple Street Children’s Hospital, one of the most important hospitals in the country, which leads investigation and treatment in several areas such as neurological, eye, craniofacial, kidney, airways and metabolic disorders. The great success of this centre is that they’re always involved in new projects to improve the experience of staying in a hospital for both the children and parents.
Now this hospital is raising funds to develop a new dedicated Cystic Fibrosis and Respiratory Out-Patient Unit, that will cost €2.7 million. They are also looking to buy new equipment, some machines which can help in the diagnosis or in the treatment of ill children.
The fundraising office for Temple Street Hospital has thought of 12 ways that everybody can help the Hospital, and therefore the children and their families. At Connector we would like to join this good cause and that’s why we are going to fundraise at our Christmas Party. So if you also think that healthy children is something worth to fight for, join us on thursday’s evening at Lillie’s Bordello: make connections, have fun and connect for a good cause.
Temple Street Children's Hospital
Christmas Parties season
by Izabela Zelazna on December 8th, 2009
Christmas Tree on O'Connel street, Dublin
It seems like the Christmas Party season has fully started. This week brings two major events that are a must-be for young professionals looking for networking opportunities and fun.
Firstly, on Monday 7th December, The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) hosted the IIEA Young Professionals’ Network Christmas Event. IIEA is renowned for being Ireland’s leading European and international affairs policy analysis think tank and is an independent, not-for-profit organisation. The IIEA events were the platform and forum for many prestigious guest speakers, to name Gordon Brown, Gunther Verheugen or Mikhail Gorbachev. This year’s Christmas event was the occasion to focus on the review of the political, economic and social highlights of 2009, nicely wrapped up and commented by three wise men of Irish journalism: Marc Coleman from Newstalk 106-108, Matt Cooper from Today FM and Sunday Business Post’s own Pat Leahy.
The highlight of the week, however, should be the Connector Christmas Party on 10th December, in Lillie’s Bordello. We are already counting down to the night full of fun and excitement with awards for ‘Tribe of the Year’ & “Person of the Year”. We will also ask people of good heart to support out cause and donate money to Temple Street Children’s University Hospital. Drinks and food at the night will be sponsored by Peroni beer and Realex Payments. Don’t forget to take your business cards and leave your contact details to the girls standing in the Connector corner (with our new pull up stand by Applied Signs& Dispay!)
So put your party hat on & see you on Thursday.
The event starts at 7pm in Lillie’s Bordello at Adam Court, Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
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Dartmouth Square – 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.
Darthmouth Square has been a huge success in 2009. From a standing start, this tribe has grown to almost 1,000 members of Ranelagh locals & fans who have reclaimed this green area and put it back to great use for the community. Darthmouth are using this public space for local events. Low impact, fun, educational, green, cutting edge, theatrical, non commercial, charitable, if you have any ideas, they want them! Donations at events pay for the parks enhancement and future events.
Dartmouth Square from late April to August 26 2009 from Peter O’Brien on Vimeo.
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)
