Way back in January I attended a course in Online PR run by Damien Mulley of Mulley Communications. The course was announced in ’09 and the first batch of people to leave their names on the Facebook Page for Online PR in Ireland got to attend. Thanks to my skills of observation and swiftness with…
Read morePrint media starts to fight back
For years lovers of the Internet and Social Media have predicted the death of print media. It is true that sales of magazines and newspapers have declined Worldwide along with the advertising revenue which accompanies them. I don’t accept for a minute however that print media will soon be extinguished anymore than ‘video killed the…
Read moreTurn websites, blogs etc into PDFs
Every now and then, like everyone else, I come across websites that do useful stuff. Just last night I found PDFmyURL thanks to cnet. Simply put, it converts websites into PDFs making it handy for reading offline, putting on an e-book reader or just filing away. Updated versions of Adobe reader have a ‘Read out…
Read moreSometimes Social Media is useless, go where your customers are
I saw this sign recently and thought to myself, ‘Fair play to the publican for making an effort’. Clonmore is a village in Co. Tipperary about 6km from Templemore. As far as I know there’s only one pub in it ‘Fitzpatrick’s’ and this is where Eamon McCann was playing. The publican could just sit around…
Read moreWhen I was a millionaire
Way back when I was a millionaire I spent the Summer on the Cote D’Azur in the South of France. Long days passed basking in the Mediterranean sunshine, swimming in the warm, clear blue waters of the Cap d’Antibes. I brushed shoulders with movie stars at the Cannes Film Festival and made numerous excursions to…
Read moreOh social meeja, social, social, social, socialmeeja
I was driving on the motorway recently at about 1 or 2am. As you can imagine it was quiet deserted and relaxing to drive on. To keep myself alert and awake I decided to write a song. Or should I say write new words for an existing song. I had used the same song many…
Read moreRyanair do it again
Whether you love or hate Ryanair you’ve got to love how they get so much free publicity just by being completely outrageous. Dublins98 radio station did a parody song and created a video about Michael O Leary’s plans to offer standing room on flights. What was Ryanairs reaction? They put it on their website Not…
Read moreMotivational Monday
As I posted last Monday, here we have another motivational video clip that may help kick start your week if you’re a bit lethargic after the weekend. Al Pacino explains in this clip from the movie ‘Any Given Sunday’ that short consistent steps in a positive direction will eventually lead you to victory.
Read moreDromineer underused and missing the buckets and spades
Last weekend my family and I headed to Dromineer, on the shores of Lough Derg in Co. Tipperary. The Irish Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter was visiting for the day, organised by the local Lifeboat Station. For anyone who’s never been to Dromineer it’s a beautiful spot. It has an ample beach, a jetty, marina, children’s…
Read moreMotivational Monday
I don’t know about you dear kind reader but I sometimes find it slow going on a Monday morning. It can be hard to get motivated to do anything constructive, especially if I’ve had an active weekend doing non work related activities. Possibly spurred on my previous post (great video, watch it!) I have decided…
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