Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… (more…)
Continuing on from my last post and in an attempt to start putting some of my New Year resolutions into action, I have salvaged, updated or setup accounts for all of the below. Check them out and connect with me to say hello if you’re on them too! If I don’t know you, am not linked to you in some way or don’t know of you, I may not add you (”cheek!” says you). However, I will appreciate the thought and effort that you went to in saying hi!
I’m planning to keep all of these for professional/ industry related purposes (within reason!). In other words, you won’t find embarrasing photos of me getting drunk or on holiday (you wouldn’t find them anywhere though!). I’m using LinkedIn and Facebook for career and industry networking, I’m using Twitter for less formal networking (and as an outlet to add my two cents worth, to sometimes vent and to ‘twitter’) and Im using Flickr to display my photography.
I think that that makes me sufficiently connected! 
Monday 17th December 2007, San Francisco - the operators of Torrentspy.com, the popular bit torrent search engine, have lost a copyright case against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) after it was ruled that they had tampered with evidence by ignoring a ruling to retain server logs and unique online computer addresses. In a ruling that could have implications for the privacy of Web site users, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, ruled that TorrentSpy has infringed MPAA copyrights. (more…)
I recently embarked of some further study. I am three weeks into a Diploma in Digital Marketing with Advertising, Public Relations and E-Commerce (Dip. Dig. Mkting) with the Fitzwilliam Institute. This is the first time that the Institute are running the course, which can always be a bit of a gamble. However, I’m not new to this having been the 2nd year group of undergraduate students to undertake the BSc. Multimedia degree at the School of Communications in Dublin City University in 2000, and that gamble paid off in the end. So far, the diploma course has been very good and has reached my (high) expectations. One of the key things that attracted me to the course, aside from wanting a formal qualification in the digital marketing and advertising arena, was that the Institutes approach in selecting lecturers that are directly working or involved in their area of specialisation and that can demonstrate their experience with examples related to their own jobs and companies. I was interested to see that one of the lecturers, Anthony Quigley, was recently interviewed by The Innovation Magazine, the monthly supplement of the Irish Times. Quigley, founder and CEO of Online-Marketing.ie, is considered one of Ireland’s leading experts in the areas of online and internet marketing.
I also attended my first “Marketing Breakfast” organised by the Marketing Institute of Ireland yesterday morning, which took place in the Dome Restaurant (more…)
A late night escapade to Q-zar and bowling in the Blanchardstown Leisureplex (how much fun! - I haven’t done that since my teenage years) saw me leaving the moped in work overnight the other night and subsequently having to resort to public transport the following morning i.e. get the train into work. Anyway, page 13 of my free copy of METRO contained an article about how open-source technology is transforming the economy, politics and science… so nothing new there exactly but it did get me thinking about mass collaboration, social networking, blogging and self-publishing on the Internet in general ( a lot to think about on a relatively short train journey!). And, I also learned a new term in the process, ‘wikinomics’.
“Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Or so the May 2nd, 2005 issue of Business Week stated, but which blogging software should you use?
Undoubtedly, web publishing in the form of blogging has gained popularity as a legitimate business, communications and marketing tool. Furthermore, any internet web manager, developer, designer or digital media industry professional who is worth their weight should maintain a blog, apparently. I myself finally got around to setting up my new blog using WordPress. So… why a new blog? And why have I chosen the blogging software that I have? (more…)