Posted under 'Events'

Over the past few days I’ve been torn a little bit away from the comfort zone of  web development activities and have been thinking a lot about the Social media session at Open Coffee Sligo next thursday. 12 months ago at our  inaugural get together – we had a great talk from Johnny Beirne of [...]

So WordCamp Ireland is rolling up pretty quickly. Back in November 2009 I was delighted to help out in organising  Northwest Connects – as well as doing the moderation of the two panel discussions we had on the day. Both discussions went well – according to plan in as much as something like this can [...]

As I commented last night on twitter – awesome would not be a normal part of my vocabulary.  Listening to Sean Gallagher of Smarthomes and  Dragons Den last night as part of Enterprise Innovation Week (#eiweek) in Sligo IT – the word entered my vocabulary for the first time. He gave an awesome and fascinating [...]

Northwest Connects on Saturday seemed to be a great success. I’m not saying that as one of the event organisers, or as a sponsor, or let it be said as one of those who actually made it in the end to a lot of the talks – just two and a half. My positive summation [...]

Just back from an enjoyable evening in Carrick on Shannon in Co. Leitrim. Along with over 60 other CruiseCampers – we sailed serenely along under a late evening sun on the  Moon River. Good to meet up with some familiar faces and exchange some war stories with new acquaintances; This type of environment is perfect [...]

It’s embarassing from a blog output point of view that the last two entries here now refer to conferences I have attended or watched. Thankfully, New Year resolutions are close to hand. What motivated me to catch a 5.45am train from Sligo and attend the arts council conference? Of course the main one was to [...]