SpunOut.ie, Ireland’s youth information website, has partnered with social networking platform Twitter to launch a new ‘Online Safety Information Hub’ to mark Safer Internet Day 2015 (February 10th). Each year the global online safety community celebrates Safer Internet Day to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make the internet a better […]
Malachy Browne is our guest on today’s podcast. With a solid background in both journalism and technology, he worked for Village magazine and co-founded Politico.ie before joining Storyful as News Editor. In December he joined international news startup Reported.ly, where he is Managing Editor and Europe Anchor. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download […]
If you’re using social media for your business or even for personal use tweaking your profile so it looks well is important. But which size image can you use? This handy graphic explains it all: source
Here’s part 2 of our chat with Pat Divilly at OMiG (Online Marketing in Galway) December meeting. He’s built a successful business on social media and content marketing, so we asked him about his approach to content. [youtube]http://youtu.be/x24YWd0j2f8[/youtube] Part 1 of the conversation is here. Blacknight is sponsoring OMiG’s first Galway Digital Summit tonight at the Ardilaun Hotel. […]
Pat Divilly is a business phenomenon. With a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition, he was waiting tables in Galway just two years ago when he started doing bootcamps on Silver Strand in Bearna. Through word of mouth and social media he’s grown his operation to over 800 subscribers generating €60,000 per month – and he doesn’t […]
Monday next, January 26, is International Community Manager Appreciation Day – yes – it’s a thing – and Boards.ie is joining other companies in Ireland and around the world in celebrating the work of community managers. Formed in 1998, Boards.ie is one of Ireland’s oldest and most successful online communities. Its CEO, Sean Coughlan, is my guest on […]
A Deloitte report released today analyses Facebook’s impact on the global economy. Some headline takeaways: Facebook enabled $227bn of economic impact Enabled 4.5m jobs globally in 2014. The full report, which was commissioned by Facebook, goes into more detail about how Facebook’s impact was felt in various regions of the world, but the graphic below […]
Here’s some information which, naturally, we all hope we’ll never need to use. But if the moment did arise, ignorance would be no comfort. It’s a great example of how to communicate an important message in a memorable way. Please take 40 seconds to watch it. [youtube]http://youtu.be/gtbUB1XPW_o[/youtube] Credit is due to St John’s Ambulance in the UK for this […]
The latest Ipsos MRBI social media survey results were released earlier today. Facebook continues to reign with 60% of Irish people having an account. 72% of them use Facebook every single day, while only 37% of Twitter users are active on a daily basis. Dating app Tinder is apparently being used by 5% of Irish […]
On the biggest day for online purchases in the calendar, new research from the Irish International Business Network (IIBN), reveals that almost a third (29.6%) of Irish businesses now believe e-commerce could help them grow their business, up from 16.2% last year. The IIBN Inter-trade and export report, which looks at the attitudes of Irish businesses […]
