The Irish Internet Association (IIA) is asking Irish businesses to participate in research designed to help the IIA advise Irish SMEs adopt best fit e-commerce solutions. The research powered by Qualtrics is now live. It builds on previous research carried out in 2015 by IEDR to highlight scale of the ecommerce gap in Ireland. This highlighted […]
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Net Visionary Award Nominations Open
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 […]
Video: Storyful’s Mark Little Accepts the 2014 Net Visionary Award
On Friday night, the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards was a heartwarming occasion. It’s great to see old friends and meet new ones. And after a night of awards in different categories, there is a special moment when one among us is singled out for that special recognition: the Overall Net Visionary Award. Reading the citation, […]
How (Not) to Deal with Nerves when Speaking at the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards [Video]
It’s Net Visionary time again! The Irish Internet Association‘s annual awards event is on tonight at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. This year’s MC is Brian Colhoun: he’s got a unique approach to dealing with speaker anxiety! http://youtu.be/5G4yamAyp6Q I’m looking forward to the night; Joan Mulvihill and the IIA always put on a good show, and I’ll […]
Matt Galligan of Circa on the Atomization of News [Video]
The Irish Internet Association organised a breakfast gathering on the fringe of Web Summit last month, just across the road in AIB’s Bankcentre. Most of the people there were involved in the tech side of media, and the speaker was Matt Galligan, co-founder and CEO of Circa. [youtube]http://youtu.be/p_bsygXnlow[/youtube] This video is a a good deal […]
ePubDirect is All about the Books [Video]
Here’s another video from the IEDR Net Visionary Awards in September. It’s a quick chat (less than a minute!) with Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect, winners of the “Speed of Light Award” for the Fastest Growing One to Watch. Loading the player … There have been so many events in the past couple of months that […]
Day 2 at Web Summit
It’s another exciting day for attendees at Web Summit. And it looks like being a busy night! The organisers report that tonight’s closing party presented by Bing is booked out. However they have added a second venue at The Liquor Rooms on Wellington Quay, with capacity for another 400 attendees. It will be open from 7.30pm – […]
“Sligo, Who Knew?” wins IIA Award [Video]
Sligo is Ireland’s best kept tourism secret – offering everything you can find in Galway or Donegal, but it doesn’t hit the tourism headlines quite as much. An initiative of Sligo Tourism aimed to change that – with a €170,000 marketing campaign which leveraged the goodwill and support of Sligo’s social media community to champion […]
AA Ireland at the Net Visionary Awards [Video]
Here’s another video from the Net Visionary Awards. Eamonn Grant is Head of Online for AA Ireland. They got the award for “Best Mobile Service or App for fast moving people”.
Fin Goulding of Paddy Power is Net Visionary Best CIO [Video]
“Best CIO” is a new award at this year’s Dot IE Net Visionary Awards. Sponsored by Intel, it was judged by a special panel chaired by Dennis Jennings, who explained that the award recognised the importance of data in modern computing, and the role of the CIO in managing data and using it to drive […]