The Dublin Maker Festival is in its 10th year and will be held in person later this month. The event will bring together makers from around Ireland to show off their lockdown creations. It’s a one day event and it’s free to attend. What will you find? By the sounds of things there should be […]
Clare County Council has revealed that Snapchat was the most popular social media channel among users of the newly launched free public Wi-Fi service in Ennis town centre during Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann from 13 – 21 August. 13.8% of the more than 1 million megabytes (1.08 terabytes) of data transferred during the 9-day period […]
The date for the 2015 Social Media Awards, known as “The Sockies”, has been announced. The ceremony will be held in the RDS Concert Hall on June 3rd. Nomination, which is free, is open until April 7th and any company or organisation on the island of Ireland eligible to enter. Click here to check out this year’s categories. […]
Blacknight, Ireland’s leading provider of web hosting and domains, has announced that it is to be the headline sponsor for the inaugural SME Awards to be held on April 25 2015, at the Radisson Hotel in Cork. Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon joins us on today’s podcast to talk about the Awards and Blacknight’s commitment to SMEs. Click on […]
The Next Web Europe Conference will be 10 years old next year. The 10th edition of the conference is scheduled to take place in Amsterdam on April 23rd and 24th 2015. According to the organisers over 3500 attendees were at the most recent edition this year, with the same number expected for the 10th anniversary. […]
The full schedule for Web Summit was published earlier today. The event will be held across several stages in the RDS with each stage being devoted to a different theme (well, sort of): Center Stage (sic) – keynotes etc Enterprise Builders Machine Marketing Music Sport Library Food Cinema According to Web Summit head man Paddy Cosgrave […]
The finalists in the 2014 RealexFire Irish Web Awards have been announced. You can see the full list here. Congratulations to all the finalists! We (Blacknight) are sponsoring two of the categories, as previously announced. Related articles Irish Web Awards vs Da Vinci
Johnny Beirne knows about organising business and networking events: he’s been involved in runnning two of them. He knows it can be a challenge to find good speakers, but he also knows that speaking at such events is an opportunity for experts and thought leaders to promote themselves and their businesses, and that many will do so for little […]
This year the Realex Fire Web Awards turn 7! They continue to be popular and this year the organisers are expanding the number of business categories to cope with demand. And since it’s the Web Awards there’s going to be some “tongue in cheek” fun – we love the “last supper” concept 🙂 Full details […]
Forget wine bars and breakfast meetups; Dublin’s startup community is taking to the open air for recreation and – yes – networking. It started with a tweet from Andreea Wade, who was soon joined by Aisling Hannon and Tracy Keogh. I want to go hiking. Do you also want to go hiking? Because I really want to go […]
