Head on down to Luigi Malone’s any time between 10 and 12 and there should be some of us there talking tech and business and maybe a little Heroes. Particularly interested in talking to people about Coworking possibilities today.

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The first ShareIT session was held yesterday in UCC. Unfortunately I had to leave early but I did catch Jenny Kent’s and Krishna De’s presentations both of which were excellent and full of practical nuggets rather than generalities. This is a genuinely valuable initiative for those starting out in tech businesses. I highly recommend attending [...]

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The first ShareIT session is tomorrow. Remember, it is totally free and you’ll learn a bunch if you turn up. I’ve just finished writing my presentation on “Outsourcing - A Guide” and it’s a cracker
More info on the Business Advisory site.
Contact Damien on 086 825 8586 if you want to attend.

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I previously mentioned the ShareIT initiative by the Irish Small Business Advisory Group and the first session is on this coming Saturday in UCC. Put simply
ShareIT will offer free training by experienced business people who are experts in their respect areas to companies and individuals starting out in the world of IT. These training [...]

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Wow that was some morning in Luigi Malone’s! I’d never been there before and the venue was just perfect. I arrived in to find a few of the guys along with Don the owner who stayed for the entire session. A huge thanks to Don for covering the cost of the refreshments today and for [...]

Posted in Business, Community, Enterprise, Investment, Jobs, OpenCoffee 13 Comments »

Deirdre Lacey from it@cork contacted me to tell me about a page they have put on their site:
In response to Motorola’s recent announcement, it@cork have set up a Job Seekers Webpage on the it@cork website.
The page allows staff from Motorola to post their details if they are job seeking. Prospective employers can follow up directly [...]

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After a bit of discussion the inaugural Cork OpenCoffee Club will be held at 10am this Friday 16th in Luigi Malone’s on Emmet Place in Cork City Centre. UseAMap.
The aim of the club is to bring together a good mix of entrepreneurs, investors, developers and marketers, plus anyone else who is interested in growing the [...]

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Starting with Saul in London followed quickly by Eoghan in Dublin and James/Jan in Limerick, it looks like the OpenCoffee Club idea really does have legs. The core idea is that a regular informal meeting is held in a coffee shop where we try to bring together entrepreneurs and investors to discuss topics of mutual [...]

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James over at Eirepreneur has very neatly brought together the idea of Coworking with Twitter. He has taken the Twitter feeds of a set of Irish developers and freelancers that he knows and spliced them into Grazr. It provides a single combined feed of a set of people who are all in Ireland, work in [...]

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We had a wonderful night at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. Big congrats to Kieran Murphy who won Best Business Blog (and Best Speciality Blog) and Bernie Goldbach who won Best Technology Blogger (and Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere which he in turn gave to Damien). They are two of my favourite bloggers [...]

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I attended my first UK Geek Dinner last night after FoWA. Guests of honour were Tara Hunt and Chris Messina. I only chatted to Chris for a short while towards the end of the night and the bulk of the conversation was about BarCamp. I told him how important I thought BarCamps have been for [...]

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Argolon has been short-listed for Best Business Blog in The Irish Blog Awards and I’ve been shortlisted for Best Technology Blogger (presumably for this blog and the LouderVoice one). Thanks to all of you out there who voted. That’s some pretty stiff competition and all of them are great blogs which are well worth subscribing [...]

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So get those votes in. Make sure to check out all the great nominees over at Jason Roe’s Blog and then vote in as many categories as possible. Just don’t vote more than once or you’ll be barred just like that time you tried to get into a nightclub with jeans on.

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Damien has just announced the Share IT Free Training sessions which he has organised under the umbrella of BusinessAdvisory.ie. This is a fantastic idea where those with expertise in certain areas give training for free to those who are seeking it.
Initially it the focus is on IT/Technology but if it proves successful, I’m sure the [...]

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I’m grinning more than a cat that fell into a vat of cream. I’ve got through to the the voting round in four categories in The Irish Blog Awards! If you like my technology and business blogging between here, LouderVoice and the odd bit on my personal blog then I’d love your vote in the [...]

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The University of Limerick Computer Society, Skynet, is celebrating its 15th anniversary and they are hosting a very impressive looking conference called SkyCon. I talked to Laura about it after BarCamp and it sounds like a cannot-miss event. Just look at the list of Speakers.
It’s on in UL from Feb 16th to 18th and at [...]

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I compressed them a lot to reduce upload time on ADSL but the sound quality is ok.
The first segment is all about Wordpress itself:

The second has more on Wordpress but also a lot on working in a global virtual team and working from home:

Both well worth viewing.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordpress+mu, donncha+o+caoimh, barcamp, barcampireland, [...]

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The second Irish BarCamp was thoroughly enjoyable and I’m already looking forward to the next one.

Review of Event ‘BarCamp Ireland South East‘
04:09 on Jan 22 2007 by Argolon Solutions Team

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Head on over and vote for all your faves. I notice categories for Best Technology Blog and Best Business Blog……..
Technorati Tags: iba2007, Irish+Blog+Awards, Damien+Mulley

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Damien comes up trumps again with a wonderful idea that he calls “An Irish Tech Brain Trust” which would be an advisory board for Irish startups. I posted a comment where I said that I was interested from both sides of the fence and I think the same might apply to many others. Sometimes you [...]

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