The disaster that was the information site about Cork OpenCoffee has finally been resolved. No more re-directs to Upcoming or Eventful. We now have a nice clean blog which you can subscribe to via RSS or email. We’ll keep it fully up to date with everything that is happening in OCC here.
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It’s not often that people and technology come together so brilliantly as this morning’s Limerick OpenCoffee. I’ve just taken part in their regular session whilst sitting in a kitchen in Wexford.
Conn O Muineachain livestreamed the entire event using Ustream.tv so anyone could logon and see what was happening whilst a chat-channel allowed us to interact [...]

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Aidan Finn and David Lenehan (aka PollDaddy Lenny) are having an impromptu Galway OCC, Friday 11am Forster Court Hotel. All welcome. Spread the word

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Aidan Finn just announced Galway OCC on Twitter. Upcoming.org page here. I’d been hoping for this one, I think it’ll be a big success. Looking forward to the reports. That plus BarCamp Galway are two great excuses for us to head up there.

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I’m hitting Amsterdam at 5pm tomorrow for both the International OCC and TheNextWeb Conference. I’ll demo LouderVoice to as many people as I can and I’m looking forward to the VC Speed Pitching session at lunchtime Friday. I’d better practice my elevator pitch tonight.
If you want to contact me from midday Thursday onwards I’ll be [...]

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The recent coverage of Cork OCC on national radio gave the expected boost to attendance and we had more than 15 coffee drinkers last Friday. More importantly the mix is heading in the right direction with entrepreneurs, the interested, investors, a PR guy, a corporate events guy and techies all there and all networking.
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David Lenehan has written a great overview of the Open Coffee phenomenon. Cork gets a mention. If you have any interest in building the start-up culture and community in Ireland then it is a must-read. If you like it, please Digg it too.

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This post should have been written over a week ago but I’m only finally getting the time now.
On Thursday 10th May, three of us from Cork Open Coffee (Walter Higgins, David Copithorne and myself) headed over to London Open Coffee. As someone who has never worked into the UK (The Netherlands and Germany being [...]

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I did a short interview with Emma McNamara this afternoon for Radio 1. The overall theme of her piece was “The Economy” and as with other items in the series they took a regional focus which was Cork/Munster on this occasion.
I talked for far too long about the start-up scene down here, Open Coffee, LouderVoice, [...]

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Congrats guys, I’ll be down for one soon, particularly as it’s free coffee if you visit from another OCC.
Waterford Open Coffee Club

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We had another good turnout this morning at Open Coffee and covered a lot of ground from technology companies not building good links with content companies to quite a long discussion about aims and metrics associated with Cork Open Coffee.
Haydn made some strong points about the fact that many web businesses are very heavily [...]

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We had the second Cork Open Coffee meet-up last Friday. As expected the numbers were down slightly but I was thrilled to see that over half the faces were new and we had some great additions to the attendee profile.
I had hoped when we kicked off OpenCoffee here that it would not just be [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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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