Connector Weekly News
by Igor Walter on February 9th, 2011
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 Placeâ€. 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 Businessâ€.
- 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!
Connecting with Paddy MaGuinness
by Jamie Richardson on August 13th, 2009
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!
Connections made with Don Mullan
by Jamie Richardson on August 4th, 2009
“I’m an ideas man.â€
 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!
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Connector Weekly News – 7th June '09
by Conor on June 7th, 2009
Connections Made
- May have some free tickets to the Irish Derby from Maria @ Kildare Village
- Was at the opening party on Fri night for BANG! Studios in Dublin 1 … welcome Vassilis !
- Connected Niall Harbison with some advise on T-shirt printing (from my site www.conman.tv)
- Connector’s good mate Alex has started a new site called www.eclicks.eu – talk to him, he’s good !!
- Was at an Nokia inter agency day with Eighty:Twenty, DDFH&B, Direction JWT, Mediacom
- Helped Don Mullan showcase his interview with the last remaining Titanic survivor – thanks to Nokia
- Heading towards 500 followers on Twitter … hope I ain’t boring them I don’t like qwitters !
- Met my mam for dinner in TheChurch.ie plus met Barbara McCarthy there too
Connections Wanted
- We’re looking guests for Connector No.11 on Friday12th June in TheChurch.ie …
- Seeking people or companies looking for Digital & Social Media Training or workshops …
- Celine Mullen is running an event designed for those made redundant or seeking new job opportunities …
- I would like to find a cool car/van asap – any one some connections for a bargain Connectormobile ?
- Looking for volunteers in Web TV, Blogging & Event Management … are there summer interns out there ?
- Anyone up for a Galway Races break (28 July-2nd Aug) as I may rent an appt or house for Connector
Connecting You / WLTM
- Who would you like to meet & why ?
Don Mullan connects with the 'Baby of the Titanic'
by Conor on June 7th, 2009
A Tribute to Millvina Dean
Born 2 February 1912 who died 31 May 2009, aged 97
by Don Mullan
Don Mullan travelled the world with his Nokia N95 video/camera phone and photographed & interviewed world famous and some not so famous people he met along the way. His photos and stories are amazing and I met him recently at a Nokia exhibition of some of his mobile photos in Dublin. Below he interviews Millvina Dean, who until recently was the last survivor of the Titanic.
“I first met Millvina Dean (The baby of the Titanic) at a HMS Titanic Convention in Southampton in 1997 with my children. It was my eldest daughter Therese’s fascination with the James Cameron’s movie ‘Titanic’ that brought us there. From the moment we met Millvina, there was an instant friendship.
In recent years Millvina asked me to help her write her memoir. With the assistance of Therese we had travelled back and forth from Dublin to Southampton over the past two years, sometimes alone, sometimes together. Sadly, our project was not complete when Millvina passed away.
What we loved about Millvina was her sense of fun and childlike nature. She was an intelligent woman, alert, articulate and fiercely independent. We loved spending time with her for she had a great gift of making people she met feel
special and loved. In answer to our question, “What is the secret of your happiness” she answer, “You need only two things. A sense of humour and a kind heart.”
Millvina loved reading and gardening and spoke with great affection about the little birds that visited the feeding trays she had constructed in her front and back gardens.
Following an accident in 1995 she was moved to a nursing home. Her bedroom there was filled with things that were important to her: photographs of Titanic related trips she took abroad with her faithful companion Bruno; fresh flowers brought by her many friends; two cuckoo clocks; bundles of fan mail from around the world; and a wonderful collection of teddies, cloth dolls and toy animals.
One day she took great delight in showing Therese and me two little singing puppies who performed ‘I’ve Got You Babe’. She called them ‘Sonny and Cher’ after the American singing duo who had a number-one hit with the song in 1965.  Her obvious delight and innocence was such I immediately began to record the moment on my Nokia N95 mobile phone.
I dedicate this video to everyone who knew and loved Millvina. I hope it brings a sparkle to their eyes and warmth to their heart. I also hope that those seeing this for the first time will come to understand why Millvina Dean was so loved and revered by those who knew her. Millvina died an old and fulfilled woman but she retained, right until the end, a young spirit with the most beautiful childlike nature.
Please enjoy this treasured memory of Millvina Dean. It is my hope that in the months and years ahead we will begin to create a life-giving memorial to the baby of the Titanic, supporting the valiant work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. There could be no greater way of keeping Millvina’s spirit alive.
God Bless You Millvina Dean. All who knew and loved you are filled with gratitude for the privilege of encountering your life. And we are especially grateful to your dear father Bertram who sacrificed his own life to save you, your brother Vere, and your dear mother Georgette. “
Nokia – Connecting People
by connector on April 22nd, 2009
Ok, so Nokia started connecting people first … I give that to them ;-0
However, I must also say they put on a good event too and one such event was on this evening in Gallery One in Dublin.  It was to launch the world’s first mobile phone photography exhibition featuring the inspirational photos of Don Mullan all taken with his Nokia phone. The exhibition was opened by the FAI CEO John Delaney who generously gave a ticket to the Ireland v Italy World Cup match in October to everyone in the audience … what a great result !!
Well done to Aoife & the Nokia team for such as well organised and attended event. The photos are on view to at the Gallery One until the 28th April & I helped promote the event on Pix.ie (with Marcus MacInnes in attendance tonight too) & Facebook with Eighty:Twenty. Â I am pictured with Don & Aoife & some of the amazing mobile phone photos.
