Congratulations to everyone who’s made it to the semi-final rounds of the Irish Web Awards, just announced. Tension is mounting for the event on November 6! Tickets went on sale yesterday at the early price of €30. There’s also a number of categories still available for sponsorship.
If you want to find out both what the Irish 2014 budget has in store for you and what people think of it .. then why not follow it on Twitter? Following the hashtag #budget2014 will give you insights into both what the Irish government has planned and how people are perceiving it. Some of […]
Tickets for this year’s Web Awards are now on sale. At the moment the tickets are priced at €30 per person. There’s also a number of categories still available for sponsorship.
Another week – another awards ceremony! It certainly feels that way at this time of year. Blog Awards Ireland was held in Naas, Co. Kildare, on Saturday night and proved to be a hugely enjoyable evening. As you can see from this video, the lighting was somewhat dark and atmospheric which was fun for the […]
Last night Technology.ie’s Michele Neylon attended the Net Visionary Awards, the IIA’s annual recognition of Irish tech talent. As CEO of Blacknight, sponsors of the category for the Most “joyous to look at and splendid to use” Web Design, he was there to present an award. But when when IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill stood up […]
Journalist Bill Thompson will be speaking at the Royal Irish Academy next month. The lunchtime talk is entitled “The Open Data Society and Its Enemies”: The talk will be grounded in his own experience as a journalist, developer and support of open data, and will explore ways in which open standards for networks, catalogues and […]
The guys over at the .me domain registry are running a competition for startups in conjunction with their conference – spark.me. The conference, which is being held in Budva, Montenegro will feature a number of international speakers and include the startup competition. If you’re involved in a startup that has received less than $2.5 million […]
As mentioned yesterday, the shortlist of nominees for this year’s IIA NetVisionary Awards is now available. As of earlier this morning the public voting is now open – and it’s only open for 3 days! You can cast your vote for a number of categories: “You Did Good” – Best Use of the Internet for […]
The Irish Internet Association‘s annual awards will be held on September 27th and they’ve published the shortlist of nominees today. Public voting on five out of the fifteen categories should open tomorrow. Full details on the official site. Disclosure: Blacknight is sponsoring the “Most Joyous to look at and splendid to use Web Design” category […]
The 2013 Eircom Spiders will be held on November 28th in Dublin’s Convention Centre – hopefully this year they won’t coincide with the Irish Web Awards! Nominations are now open, though unlike many of the other Irish Internet industry awards, the Spiders expect you to pay €150 per nomination. (You can get a 25% discount […]
