I couldn’t make it to Congregation today , but I’m watching the hashtag #Cong14 with interest as about 50 participants engage in ‘huddles’ to discuss social media, marketing and content in various locations around the village of Cong, Co Mayo. The venues are bookshops, cafes, bars, and an art studio dotted around the little village famous as the location of […]
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RTÉ’s GAAGO Selects Stripe as Payments Partner
GAAGO, RTÉ and the GAA’s online streaming service for Gaelic Games outside of Ireland, announced today at Web Summit that payments disruptor Stripe has been selected as the long-term payments partner of GAAGO. Since the service was launched in May this year, Gaelic Games fans in over 150 countries have been enjoying the new reality of […]
Still Hustling: A Conversation with Pat O’Mahony [Audio]
TV and radio producer Pat O’Mahony has a reputation as someone who is as comfortable with new media as with old. That’s partly due to a series of Christmas programmes he made for RTE in 2009, 2010 and 2011 called Now That’s What You Called News. Based on Google’s Zeitgeist Report on popular searches, the show […]
Irish Viral Video Humour is Serious Business
So we’ve had the Americans Taste Irish Snacks video from Buzzfeed. Now watch Irish people return the compliment. [youtube]http://youtu.be/-Vjd4YtAImM[/youtube] Same idea, all the way down to the brick-wall background. So is it a success? Well it’s got almost a million hits so far, and they’ve gone on to do Tourists Try to Translate Irish Slang […]
Video: ‘Net Visionary’ Mark Little explains The Vision Thing
Mark Little was an inspiring winner of the Dot IE Net Visionary Award on Friday night. There’s been a lot positive comment on the video of his speech, and that of IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill. Afterwards he gave an interview to Technology.ie. I reminded him that, when he founded Storyful, nobody knew what a “social media news agency” was. […]
Úna Spills the Beans on Food [Podcast]
Our guest on today’s podcast is Úna-Minh Kavanagh, blogger, journalist, broadcaster and campaigner. (Download here: 19:38; 11MB; MP3 – or click the player above). She’s worked for JustEat.ie and interned with Storyful and most recently worked for Her.ie. Now she’s taking a new path so I Skyped her to find out more. Úna’s going back to […]
Russian Blogging Crackdown Law Takes Effect Today
If you’re in Russia and you’ve got a blog with more than 3,000 daily readers, you must register with the media regulator, Roskomnadzor, according to a new law which comes into effect from today. The new law also puts restrictions on anonymity, requiring that popular bloggers publish their surnname, initials and email address. Tommy Collison writes that one of the […]
Storyful’s Aine Kerr is an Honest Broker for User Generated Content [Audio]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
INM Create Almost 40 New Digital Media Jobs in Dublin
Independent News & Media (INM) has announced that it is making significant investment in its digital arm through the creation of close to 40 new roles in its Dublin office. A recruitment drive has begun with roles such as Multimedia Designers, Product Managers, Mobile Engineers, Technical Architects, UX Designers and Digital Sales Specialists on offer. […]
Digital an Integral Part of the Marketing Mix – Adrian Hopkins, Sunday Business Post [Video]
These days it’s not enough to simply organise a conference, says Adrian Hopkins, you need to create a community around the event. Adrian is the Conference Director with The Sunday Business Post, organisers of The Digital Media and Marketing Summit, which was held last week at Croke Park. Almost 400 people attended the event to […]