BizCamp Craigavon

Posted by on May 10, 2010 in business, entrepreneurship, networking, news and events | 12 comments

I attended BizCamp Craigavon last Saturday, after negotiating a few dozen roundabouts, between Lurgan and Craigavon, with Jacqueline McGonigle (from WhatsOnNI) frantically scouring GoogleMaps for inspiration.  BizCamp Craigavon is an unConference, a phenomenon I’ve blogged about before, in The Rise of the Unconference. The previous post both defines and raves in equal measure....

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Twitter & Networking

Posted by on Mar 17, 2010 in business, entrepreneurship, marketing, networking, social media, social networking | 0 comments

Twitter: Understanding Its Networking Value on Prezi I delivered this presentation at Twitter: Understanding Its Networking Value, a seminar run by Legal Island, as part of its Business for Breakfast...

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Twitter: Understanding Its Networking Value

Posted by on Mar 8, 2010 in blogging, business, marketing, networking, news and events, social media, social networking | 0 comments

Next week, I’ll be speaking at one of Legal Island’s Business for Breakfast seminars, at silly o’clock in the morning on the above topic.  If you are attending, please make any suggestions in a comment below. When?  16 March 2010, 07:30 – 09:00 Where? Island Centre, Legal Island, Antrim About what? Twitter is celebrated as the latest online phenomenon in PR and...

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The Rise of the unConference

Posted by on Mar 1, 2010 in business, entrepreneurship, networking, news and events | 7 comments

unConferences have been breaking onto the business scene in Northern Ireland for a few years now, but came to my notice only in 2009.  (I’m having light palpitations after starting a sentence with a small letter, but all for the sake of informing the business public of Northern Ireland…) BizCamp Belfast is one such species.  What is an unConference?  Cool and trendy?  Anarchy?...

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