Connector Weekly – 19th April
by Nicola OReilly on April 19th, 2010
Connector is set for another busy week of connecting! Here is a roundup of the main events for this week:
On 20th Connector will hold its Digital & Social Media Workshop. This strategy workshop will help participants understand how social media is changing our culture, and importantly, the way consumers share information and make buying decisions.
After that, Connector will also be hosting Career Connections a event only for students at the Science Gallery at 6:30 pm. With this event Connector is helping to connect graduates with potential employers. Many graduates this year will find it hard to get a job but those at the Students Event won’t be amongst them. Recruitment experts from Microsoft and Google will give advice about graduate programs, career choices and personal branding. Greg Fry from Careers Coach will be speaking at the event too.
Public Affairs Ireland presents a half-day event in Dublin on the 21st. It will be of interest to people who would like to have a better understanding of how new media, the web and email can enable better access of information and provision of services to the public.
Conor, as the current chair of the IIA, will introduce the Audio Video Culture: Behind the Scenes of audio and video content online on Thursday April 22nd. This will offer an in-depth look at how to maximise the impact of video and audio content for your business.
On 23rd & 24th Connector will hold a stand at The Entrepeneur Show. 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. Connector will be present in several panels and will also have a stand in the show, helping  through the recession to learn new skills, connect to those in the know and help broaden their career prospects next weekend. Come down to check out the Connector Stand!
And don’t miss The Entrepreneur Show After-Party that Connector will host in Lillies Bordello, on Friday 23rd from 7pm. Connector will be offering a unique and fun way to network throughout the night!
More updates next week.
Connector Tribal Love Invite
by Sarai Fernandez on February 25th, 2010
Connector Tribes Final Lineup
by Sarai Fernandez on February 23rd, 2010
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.
Connecting and Seeding New Ideas
by Sarai Fernandez on November 25th, 2009
Don’t you think it would be wonderful to have an intelligent duvet that converted your regular bed into a self-making bed? Well, these are the kind of brilliant ideas that the Science Gallery was looking for when they organised a seed-dating event called “What if…”, based in the exhibit under the same title. The idea was simple: get a group of people from different backgrounds together and give them 3 minutes to do a brainstorming exercise. They were asked to come up with a new idea, that can be just be just for fun or even the base of a new business or investigation.
What at first sight looked like a geek party, turned out to be a very cool meeting that I really enjoyed. Besides the self-making beds, there were ideas such as an amazing bacteria that cleans your teeth during the night and gives you fresh breath in the morning, and a system that could tell if two people are compatible using neurobiology and neurochemistry.
A free lunch at the Science Gallery Café was waiting for the couple who came up with the best idea. We, the participants, were our own judges. The winner, believe it or not, was this one: What if I could convert the friction of my cat’s tongue to power my PDA using a fish-flavoured USB?. Close to it was the one which definetely got my vote: Floating shopping bags!!!!!!! I not only want the shopping bag, but the handbag, and the laptop bag and the suitcase. Everything floating. I just have one question: will my stuff be safe from thieves up there?
Connecting @ TED X Dublin
by Rob Cumiskey on November 13th, 2009
Connector were in attendance at the second sold out TED X Dublin event in The Science Gallery last night, and a great night it was. We were privileged to see some of the most innovative and inspiring speakers in Dublin at the moment.
Speaking at the night were:
Kate Coleman, Founder of Right to Sight
Kate gave a very important speech on needless blindness and how we can make a difference in the 21st century.
Mark Leslie, Managing Director of Martello Media
Mark spoke brilliantly about IsIsm, and being open to all ideas.
Tom Hadfield, Creator of Soccer.net and heading up the Le Whif Project
Tom gave a speak on the new way to ingest food – inhalation. We were privileged to be able to try some ‘Whiffable’ chocolate.
Simon Dennehy from Perch.ie, Ergonomic Furniture for Primary Schools
Simon Dennehy’s spoke about his work on ergonomic furniture for primary schools and its aim to rectify the fundamental problems associated with the current selection of school furniture being used in primary schools in both Ireland, and globally.
There were also some really great video presentations from TED Global throughout the night, the stand out one being from William McDonough on Cradle to Cradle Design:
