Saul and the guys have setup a Ning page for Open Coffee. Ning is basically a social networking app. On the page you can see members, recent blog posts tagged with opencoffee, ditto pictures and more importantly Upcoming.org events that are tagged. It is one central place to find out what is happening in OpenCoffee [...]

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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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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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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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And that my schoolboy French improves in the meantime. Certain impending new arrivals will dictate whether I can go to the event formerly known as Les Blogs or not but it does sound like it’ll be a fantastic two days.
I’m sure Tom is going and Mark has said that he is. Anyone else thinking [...]

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