The first step is to stop Googling things like, “how to make money online.” Not because you shouldn’t want to make money online, but because the stuff you’re going to find by doing that is going to help you lose money online. Sort of like asking a casino owner how to make money in Vegas… [...]
In my last blog post, Branding Yourself Now Easier Than Ever, I mentioned a talk I gave at the University of Limerick in October. As a demonstration, for the purposes of the talk, I built an online CV/resume website in 30 minutes during the train journey from Dublin to Limerick. Here’s the video of my [...]
Dr. Gabriela Avram asked me to come down and give a talk to some CompSci & Digital Media final year students in the fantastic surroundings of the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. One of the important messages I wanted to get across to them is to take control of their own career, and of [...]
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending the Mayo Open Coffee Club in my alma mater, GMIT, in Castlebar. It was an interesting experience and deserving of a write up in my all too infrequent blog :) Pearce Flannery I arrived a couple of minutes late, so I dont know how the event kicked [...]
Hello Wordcamp Ireland attendees! The Wordcamp organisers have asked me to speak on the topic of plugins – the suggested title is “10 Must Have WordPress Plugins”, and it’s in the “Bloggers” track. My plan is to look at some great plugins, and list some particularly valuable ones, and also to touch on some fantastic [...]
Background: Dublin City Enterprise Board’s LINK! network is a network for startup business to meet up and share experiences, business tips, and sometimes just to talk to someone who is going through the joys and pains of starting a business. The network has been running for about 2.5 years now and meets from 6-8.30pm the [...]
Niall over at SimplyZesty asked Erik Qualman and I to write up some thoughts on SEO and social media in 2010. Here’s what I wrote. – My brief here is to talk about the importance of search engine optimisation (SEO) vs social media, and where I see the industry going over the next year. SEO [...]
Last night, Twitter removed your ability to see @replies from people you follow to people you don’t follow. This is a massive change, because this is one of the primary methods for Twitter users to find other interesting people to follow. If your friends are talking to someone you don’t know, it’s very possible that [...]
These notes are from a talk I gave for the Irish Internet Association . It’s called “Planning a web project”, and it was part of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Enterprise Week 2009. Read on for the slides, notes and a partial transciption of the talk.
I’m on my way back to Dublin from my trip to the Think Visibility search/web conference in Leeds, and wanted to get some thoughts down. Think Visibility is an interesting departure from the usual massive corporate search marketing conferences. The smaller scale made it feel more like a Barcamp atmosphere. One of the great things [...]