Review of iia Audio Video Culture Event
by Nicola OReilly on April 27th, 2010
On the 22nd April 2010 the IIAs Social Media Working Group held an event entitled Audio Video Culture: Behind the scenes of audio & video content online. Conor the current Chair of Social Media Working Group at the IIA was the chariman for this event.
Speakers from RTE, RaboDirect, Channelship, Mason Hayes and Curran, CEUD NDA, Google Ireland and YouTube all spoke at the event and helped to make it a great success. Pictured is Sebastian Missoffe from YouTube in action from Conor at the top table!
There was very positive feedback with most feeling they learned a great deal about audio and video content online.
Connect with Dragons Den @ The Entrepreneur Show
by Laura Goucher on April 10th, 2010
Things are beginning to warm up for The Entrepreneur Show which will be held in the RDS Dublin on April 23rd and 24th. It is set to be two days of the biggest networking and business knowledge gathering event ever seen in the country. Connector will be present at the event with a stand and with Mr. Networker himself Conor will be taking part in some of the panels and discussions about building new connections.
The Entrepreneur Show is designed to inspire visitors to do new and better business. It will host an array of speakers from all sectors of business, to inspire you in your business development. It will give the opportunity to learn and develop new business ideas and the necessary skills to put them into practice.
Not only does it give guests an opportunity to do some serious networking, it will also feature over 80 guest speakers from some of the most knowledgeable business minds like the UK’s Dragons Richard Farleigh and Rachel Elnaugh, the Irish Dragons Sean Gallagher, Bobby Kerr and Gavin Duffy and the Entrepreneur of the Year Terry Clune.
The show is made up of five different areas,the Inspiration Chamber will host an inspiring group of Entrepreneurs speaking about their journeys through their business life. The “New Ventures” Arena will feature recently developed companies sharing their journey through the early stage of their business, this will educate visitors on how beneficial mentors and investors are to a new business and also tips on what qualities to look for when investing.
The “Think Tank” Auditorium is a new feature to the show which involves different business sectors participating in the show and a live audience of entrepreneurs, enaging in panel discussion and audience interaction. One of the most exciting areas for visitors to the show is the “Invest test” Sessions which will feature businesses looking for investment and will be judged by a live panel of experts including the UK Dragons. The Exhibitor’s Area will demonstrate the tools and services needed to develop your business development these demonstations will over vast areas including mentoring, life coaching and design services.
Two day tickets to the event are priced €35. Proud sponsors Google are giving the first 10,000 visitors who purchase tickets online €75 worth of free Google ad words to kick start marketing their business online.
Those who purchase tickets online before midnight on Monday the 12th of April, will enter into prize draws for Entrepreneur show hampers sponsored by companies such as henparty.ie, hairybaby.com and many more. For more details, click here>>
The Dubliner connects with Neil Hannon
by Jamie Richardson on July 11th, 2009
The first of a series of The Carmen Dubliner Club summer interview series began with The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. Held last Thursday, on July 9th at the Clarence Hotel, the Connector team popped in to check it out.
The Dubliner Magazine gave away 10 free tickets to their readers for this event sponsored by Carmen wine. Afterward, Carmen held a wine reception for the guests but unfortunately we weren’t able to stay for it.
Popular presenter from RTE John Kelly conducted the interview with Neil Hannon, which started off with a conversation about Hannon’s childhood. The audience, captivated by Hannon’s humor and pleasant disposition, was laughing along with cheerful account of his earlier memories.
With the Carmen Dubliner Club summer interview series just beginning, we anticipate the rest will be just as fascinating as the first. Check out The Dubliner’s website or Facebook page.
Dragon's Den Connections ?
by connector on March 22nd, 2009
On the 6th January I went to the filming of the Irish Dragon’s Den in Rathfarnham in Dublin. This is an Irish version of a hugely popular TV show from the UK, of which I am a big fan. You may have seen the Irish Dragon’s Den on RTE1 on Thursdays recently.
Do you want to know how I get on ? Does Connector get the cash or do I just make some new connections ? To find out, watch RTE1 on April 2nd (Thursday) @ 10pm (approx) … and watch this blog for details of a meetup to watch the show in town that evening.
I went to the filming with 5 of my Connector buddies namely, Niall Whittle, Brendan Phelan, Conor Maloney, Natalia Kostrzewa & Tania Zorilla.
I went with these friends from Connector for the following reasons -
1 – It would best explain what Connector is all about – people connecting on personal projects
2 – I could share the experience of a full scale RTE production with them
3 – They were free to take some time off work /study to join me
4 – They could give me some moral support !
I went on the show to pitch them ‘Connector’ as an investment opportunity they could invest €50,000 in return for 10% of my ‘business’. I hope to explain to them and the audience why it was worth investing their hard earned money in Connector.
While I knew that Connector was in very early stages and it would be hard to win over the hard-nosed Dragons, I decided to go ahead with the show anyway. I had a business idea with a nice logo, a blog and some events under my belt … I thought it would be a great experience no matter what happened.
The Irish Dragons are successful entrepreneurs and business leaders who have been there, done that. They are: Gavin Duffy, Bobby Kerr, Sean Gallagher, Niall O’Farrell and Sarah Newman.
Did we connect ?? Watch & find out !
Connect with Michael Hayes
by connector on February 2nd, 2009
I met the cool actor & presenter Michael Hayes from RTE’s ‘How Low Can You Go’ last week in Cocoon with his lovely girlfriend Ailsta. He pestered me for a photo so here it is Michael 
He even tried to make out that he did not gatecrash the January Connector, even though he was spotted by the Connector Security Team climing in coming via the roof of the Sycamore Club (allegedly) ! I’d say his lovely girlfriend gets him out of a lot of trouble. Luckily Baz is scared of heights & we were spared complete havoc !
Connect with my CONMAN Haughey T-shirt
by connector on November 25th, 2008
I am going to wear this old CONMAN.tv classic today … if you like it, please feel free to buy one here
Watch below for a great clip from December 2006 starring Andrew Maxwell in RTE’s ‘The Panel’ – watch out soon for thepanel.tv
Connect with The Panel
by connector on June 10th, 2008
A while back I had my 15 seconds of fame as a T-shirt salesman called ‘CONMAN’ who Dara O’Briain plugged on ‘The Panel’.
embedded by Embedded Video
YouTube Direkt
Tens of thousands of Irish people saw this live RTE TV show featuring the brilliantly funny Andrew Maxwell and almost 40,000 have watched this classic clip on YouTube.
Charlie Haughey T-shirts – now there’s another way to get a $uspiciously Good message onto TV.
Connect with Green students
by connector on June 4th, 2008
I was talking to the ECO-UNESCO team at a recent Green event in the RDS and I was telling them about Bebo & YouTube and how they should use web video & social networking to connect with young Green students around Ireland.
Elaine Nevin, ECO-UNESCO Director, listened & fair play to her as now we have 40 videos going live online from their annual awards in the Mansion House, featuring RTE’s Aidan Power.
This was arranged by connector.ie with help from Progressive Productions in Ranelagh. Thanks also to Fernanda & her team who were very helpful. l will report back soon on some stats and how well these videos perform in terms of YouTube views. Some brand or company should sponsor this next year … it’s a fantastic event.
embedded by Embedded Video
YouTube Direkt
Connecting with Gay Byrne
by connector on May 26th, 2008
Just when I thought there would be no connections today, phew, Gay Byrne comes to the rescue !
I spotted living legend Gay Byrne, outside Crowe’s Bar in Ballsbridge. He’s looking well but declined an offer to be interviewed by connector.ie much to my disappointment !
The traffic was quite loud but I think he told me he was waiting for his missus to come and buy him a drink. Lucky fella as it was very sunny there watching the world go by, almost unrecognisible in his shades and hat.
Good man Gay. ‘The Late Late Show’ taught me everything I know in life !!
