There were lots of family businesses at The Blacknight SME Awards, and we were reminded that families are part of communities, which they contribute to and benefit from. The winner of the Community Minded Business category was Fernhill House Hotel in Clonakility. Community involvement is a family affair, explained manager Michael O’Neill. They sponsor more than 50 local organisations and help to […]
Ciaran Cannon TD is our guest on today’s podcast, Fine Gael TD and former Minister of State for Training and Skills, he is the founder of the EXCITED Digital Learning Festival which will run from May 21st to 23rd in Dublin Castle. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 27:11; 16MB; MP3. The […]
The finalists have been announced for The Maximum Media Social Media Awards (The Sockies), to be held on Wednesday June 3rd in the RDS Concert Hall. The premier awards show in Ireland for all things digital marketing and social media, there are 27 categories this year covering areas such as Facebook, Twitter, Business categories, Campaigns and […]
“That’s the thing about an SME: you work with people; you don’t work for people”, says Colin Hession of L Mulligan Grocer. First things first: it’s not a grocer; more of a craft beer and gastropub dining experience. And it won the Best Retailer (Offline) Award at the Blacknight SME Awards. Technology.ie – like the SME Awards – […]
Christian Schinkoethe is co-founder and CTO at Rocket Rainbow Studios, a games development company. At The Blacknight SME Awards they took the prize for the Best Under-30s Business. Moments like these make it all worth it, says Christian. Technology.ie – like the SME Awards – is brought to you by Blacknight. Ireland’s premier provider of web hosting and […]
APWG, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, is the worldwide coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime across industry, government and law-enforcement sectors. Originally begun in the US, its European Foundation was recently established, and will receive a special focus this month when the organisation holds the eCrime 2015 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, in Barcelona. Foy Shiver is Deputy Secretary-General of APWG, […]
“I’ve run businesses out of school; I’ve never worked for anybody else full-time” explains Adam Ewart, when asked why he loves SMEs. His current venture, SendMyBag.com, is a door-to-door luggage service to help airline travellers avoid check-in, baggage fees and potential penalties. Passed over on UK Dragons’ Den in 2012, the company has since expanded rapidly in international markets and picked up the […]
“I love these awards – they’re fantastic” says Shawna Scott at the Blacknight SME Awards. She has reason to be pleased, having just won the award for Best Online Retailer (Irish Market) for her business SexSiopa.ie. What is her advice to online SMEs? “Learn as much as you can; try to do as much as […]
Fintan and Wendy Conlan love running their family business, ‘One Man and his Van‘. Sure, it’s hard work and stressful but “ultimately worth it”. “I would do nothing else but run my own business, because the rewards far outweigh the headaches.” ‘One Man and his Van’ won the Family Business category at the Blacknight SME […]
Last week’s Digital Rights Europe conference was a great gathering of technology, business and legal minds: thoroughly enjoyable, and productive too! If you missed it (or if you were too busy networking to catch all the presentations) DRI have made some of the presentations available on their website – and there’s more on the way. We’ve also […]
