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Refresh Dublin

Niamh Redmond — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:48:12 +0000

“Refresh Dublin is an event that promotes design, technology, usability and standards. It is a part of and inspired by the Refreshing Cities movement. The intent of Refresh Dublin is to provide a cross-discipline insight into all things design, interactive, creative and technical, so that different disciplines can learn from each other.” – RefreshDublin.org

How did Refresh Dublin start?

I noticed that Jared Spool was speaking at a Refresh Seattle event last May. The Portland and Boston events looked really good also. Refresh Belfast started earlier this year and that’s doing great – growing to over 200 attendees at the most recent event. Before long, the word was out and there was no turning back – Refresh Dublin was born. After a few tweets, e-mails and an initial meeting, a few people from the web and interactive media community in Dublin came on board.

While it has taken a while to organise the event – for example, the sponsorship details, a venue and our first speaker line-up – we’re finally getting there. The first Refresh Dublin event is on this Thursday, October 29th from 6pm in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin with speakers Sabrina Dent, the Playhouse Dublin team, Eamon Leonard and Mercury Girl Inc. All of the tickets have already been allocated but if you would like to receive updates about future events, you can sign-up to the mailing list, follow @RefreshDublin on Twitter, join the Facebook group or the LinkedIn group.

Suggestions & Voucher Competition Details:

We are welcoming ideas and suggestions for future Refresh Dublin events – For example, how many speakers should we have present at future events? Who would you like to see speak at future events? What themes or areas wold you like covered? Would you prefer in-depth topics and analysis or an overview of a specific area? Technical? Creative? A mix of both? Any other comments?

Thanks to our sponsor, Irish International, we will be running a competition to win 2 x £50 vouchers for Amazon – the first way to win is to comment below with your ideas about Refresh Dublin. The second way to win is to write a blog post about the first Refresh Dublin and then tweet about it – link to your blog post in your tweet and include the tag “#RefreshDublin”. Winners will be selected at random and you have until midnight on Monday the 9th of November to enter. If you would prefer to e-mail us your feedback, you can reach us at refreshdublin@gmail.com.

Ticket to Build Conference – Competition Details:

This competition is now closed. Congratulations to John Keyes who won the ticket.

Thanks to Andy McMillan, we have 1 free ticket to Build Conference to give away. In order to win, you have to:

- Be attending Refresh Dublin or on the waiting list.

- Answer the following three questions and post your answers to @RefreshDublin on Twitter with the tag ‘#RefreshDublin’ or our Facebook group .

- First person that posts the correct answers wins.

Q1. The Lincoln Inn in Dublin went down in Dublin pub folklore as the last city centre bar to offer what to customers?

Q2. What will Tim Van Damme be speaking about at Build Conference?

Q3. Part of the Refreshing Cities movement manifesto is to “Gather Great _____” – what’s the missing word?

Thank you:

A big thanks goes out to the people and organisations that helped make this first event possible -

Our sponsors: Irish International, the Science Gallery and Bombay Sapphire.

Our speakers: Sabrina Dent, the Playhouse Dublin team, Eamon Leonard and Mercury Girl Inc.

The organisers: Niamh Redmond (@nredmond), Mark Conguista (@interactivemark) from Irish International, Elizabeth McGuane (@emcguane), Clodagh Kelly (@clodaghkelly), Stewart Curry (@irishstu) and the staff in the Science Gallery,

And the other people/ organisations that helped or supported us: Andy McMillan – the Refresh Belfast & Build Conference organiser, the organisers of Design Week 2009, Blacknight Internet Hosting, Eventbrite ticketing software, Campaign Monitor e-mail newsletter software, Meabh Redmond, Ciaran Harris, Ángel Luis González, Martha Rotter, Shane Diffily, Peter McKenna and Studio Rua.

Is there any more information about Refresh or how can I set-up an event in my own area?

I am planing on writing a future blog post about my experience of setting up/ organising this event. This is intended as a guide to and tips for anyone considering setting up a Refresh event in their own city or area. If you would like to know more about the Refreshing Cities movement, the new Refreshing Cities website will address that (launch date to be announced). The short version is that Refresh Dallas announced it. Aaron Post found it, asked if he could do a Refresh Phoenix and then they had the first real Refresh Meeting. From there they spoke to others in various cities to get the Refresh movement up and running.

- Niamh.

How do I update my Facebook status using Twitter? Send Tweets automatically to Facebook

Niamh Redmond — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:09:08 +0000

Are you a user of Facebook and Twitter? Finding it difficult and/ or quite time consuming to manage your digital presence? Then why not consolidate your digital life stream by letting Twitter do all the work for you and use it as a Facebook status management tool?

(Note: This will mean that the tweets that you post on Twitter will automatically update your Facebook status but not vice versa – i.e. If you update your Facebook status directly in Facebook it will not update your Twitter page. If you want to send your Facebook status updates to Twitter automatically, try fb2twitter.com or Twitterfeed instead. If you are looking for a tool that will update all of your social networking channels, try Ping.fm)

How to sync your Twitter updates with your Facebook status:

Install the Twitter application for Facebook (You can also access this application by searching for “twitter” within Facebook – it will be the first application on the list, developed by Twitter.)
Add the application to your Facebook profile
Log into your Twitter account (via the Twitter application within Facebook)
Click on “Allow Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status”

You should start to see your tweets update your Facebook status within 30 minutes. If you don’t see the updates try clicking here to ensure that you are allowing status updates from Twitter.

That’s it!

Some other useful applications for managing your Twitter updates:

Recommended desktop Twitter client: TweetDeck, my personal favourite
iPhone/ iPod Touch Twitter clients: Twitterrific / Twinkle / Tweetie / Twitterfon

Related links:

A list of Twitter apps on the Twitter Fan Wiki

Connect with me:

If we are working in the same industry or share similar interests, why not follow me on Twitter or connect with me on Facebook?

- Niamh.

Recommended Firefox add-on: Web developer by Chris Pederick

Niamh Redmond — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:30:58 +0000

Web Developer by Chris Pederick.

I have been using this Firefox add-on for over a year and still think it’s great.

“The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.”

51,675 weekly downloads
8,033,519 total downloads.

More information at: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/