I spotted in WordPress’ own blog earlier a post about writing blog posts by email. So here I am testing it out, typing away on my BlackBerry (with the laptop on my lap of course). This could be extremely useful as I occasionally find myself waiting somewhere and often think “I must write about that”….
Read moreNewstalk and Twitter
Earlier today George Hook went to Twitter to help source an item for the show regarding the use of Twitter in Primary Schools. As always the good folk on Twitter came to the rescue. As a result Evert Bopp and Josie Fraser are due on the show at 5.45pm. Of course then I heard George…
Read moreEntrepreneurs deserve to be laughed at
I was watching Dragons Den on RTE last night while following the Tweets about the show and the entrepreneurs who bravely faced the dragons. It struck me later that they deserve to be laughed at. I don’t mean that they should be laughed at or their ideas ridiculed in a malicious kind of way. But…
Read moreTuesday Push: Twitter Mosaic by Sxoop Technologies
I only learned about the Tuesday Push recently and even though I’m only blogging a short while and don’t have a huge number of visitors I don’t think my push will do much. But hey, it’s better to get out and push than sit in the car! Walter from Sxoop Technologies has created a nice…
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First trial of posting to the blog using voice over a mobile phone.
Read moreGreens take a leaf from Obama’s (Face)book
Following the huge success of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign helped in no small part by his use of Social Media it was only a matter of time before Irish politicians followed suit. I received this email yesterday. This is the Facebook page It seems the Greens have really embraced Social Networking as a way of…
Read moreAdvertising in 2009, why bother?
Avast ye adlubbers! Baton the hatches! Cut costs! Lower expenses! We’re sailing into choppy waters…… blah de blah de blah. Advertising is one of those intangible things whose effectiveness can be hard to measure and quantify. As a result it is often one of the first things to be axed from a business budget when…
Read moreThe Twelve Tweets of Christmas
With too much time on my hands and the creative juices flowing from a week of party nights, I composed a little ditty. I have no notion of typing out all the versus, so this is the last verse which encompasses all the previous ones. I hope you enjoy. The Twelve Tweets of Christmas On…
Read moreWhat’ll I do tomorrow?
Here I am now writing a blog post. I’ve been meaning for ages to get started on my own blog. I set one up a while ago for the wedding stuff but haven’t been meticulous in updating it. What really got me started was Twitter which is described as a micro-blogging site. I think it’s…
Read moreWhat am I doing now? Part 3
I kept plugging away with the Tipp Tatler. Mary and I built a house. A friend of mine asked me one day to look up the price of flights to Paris. When I got back to him he had more questions about other places and things. He eventually told me he was planning to propose…
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