I spoke on a panel at HostingCon a couple of weeks ago about diversity, gender equality and women in technology. So when this graphic landed in our inbox earlier today it caught my eye. It’s an interesting and pretty well researched piece from Next Generation Recruitment – click to enlarge:
This podcast was recorded yesterday evening in Michele Neylon’s office at Blacknight HQ. The Google re-organisation was announced later, so we don’t talk about it here. But there’s plenty more to talk about – and we got briefly sidetracked into talking about Denis O’Brien and his efforts to stop people talking about him. Good luck with that. Click on […]
The Women Mean Business (WMB) conference and awards are in their 9th year and nominations are currently open. The categories of the awards are: WMB Businesswoman Award 2015 WMB Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015 Newstalk WMB Social Entrepreneur Award 2015 WMB Woman in Technology Award 2015 Boots WMB Empowering Women Award 2015 Sodexo […]
The Irish Internet Association‘s annual Net Visionary awards are now accepting nominations. This year’s categories are: Best Website – joyous to look at and splendid to use Best Web Development Agency Best Cloud Services for SMEs Best Mobile Application – indispensable to its users Best International Scaling Irish Business Best Start-Up – the one to […]
eircom, Ireland’s largest telecommunications provider, has launched a nationwide competition to identify the next Fibre To The Home rural trial community. The move follows on from the first successful trial site in Belcarra, County Mayo, which has seen business and residents of this rural community enjoy the enormous economic, educational and social benefits of having […]
From big corporations to aggressive startups, Dermot Casey helps companies to work better. In particular, he helps them to think strategically about how to leverage technology in the service of their business goals. Formerly COO and CTO at Storyful, now he works with Keith Bohanna at Near Future. At the Vodafone Smart Business Show in the RDS, he gave a […]
Technology.ie attended the Vodafone Smart Business Show at the RDS recently. Among the speakers was Louise Phelan, VP Global Operations EMEA with Paypal in Dublin. Speaking on The Future of Money, she told the audience: it’s got to be mobile. Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s leader in hosting and domains. Did you know? Dot-Irish […]
“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 […]
We had a great time at The SME Awards on Saturday, which Blacknight sponsored. It was a great chance to meet friends old and new and celebrate Irish SMEs. Thanks to Rick O’Shea and to Damien Mulley and his team for putting on a great show! We’ve got lots of video from the event; here’s the first with […]
