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Education is the Silver Bullet (to winning awards at #DMA2013)
The Digital Marketing Institute not only trained most of the winners at the Digital Media Awards in Dublin 2013 but takes away the prestigious Trailblazers Award.
Last Friday night, March 1st, the Samsung Digital Media Awards took place in the Convention Centre in Dublin. It was a fantastic night with the who's who of the digital sector out in their splendour! We were on top form, having been presented with the event’s inaugural Trailblazer Award.
But, hey, it’s not all about us! The majority of the winning teams are either trainers / lecturers with the Digital Marketing Institute or are students.
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The fourth National The Sunday Business Post Digital Media and Marketing Summit will take place next Thursday March 7th, chaired by Anthony Quigley of the Digital Marketing Institute. Since its Launch in 2010 the Sunday Business Post Digital Media and Marketing Summit has grown each year to keep up with the ever changing and dynamic industry that is Digital Marketing.
The Sunday Business Post are delighted to announce that Brando are this year’s Gold sponsors for the Digital Media and Marketing Summit 2013. We are also happy to say that the Digital Marketing Institute, Ballywire and iON have also returned as sponsors.
This year’s summit will include four international speakers, Cedric Devitt from New York and three British Speakers from London, John Streit, René De Labré and Eamonn Carey as well as 9 Irish speakers Including Ian Dodson from the Digital Marketing Institute who will talk about why digital is all bark and no bite and not really the great white hope that we think it is.
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By Beatrice Whelan, Social Media & Content Specialist at Sage Update 15.51pm: We are delighted with the fantastic response we received on Twitter today. We have reached well in excess of 1,000 people tweeting using the hashtag #SageXmasGiving and we also had a few people tweeting using the hashtag #donateVdeP which was a great idea for [...]
Continue readingIt's been a busy few months for us here in Sage on the social media front. We have recently been shortlisted in both the Golden Spider Awards and in the CCMA Awards for our use of social media.
Continue readingFirst Facebook app for an Irish business that allows users to record an audio message to enter a competition. By Beatrice Whelan, Social Media & Content Specialist at Sage Today we have launched a unique app on the Sage Ireland Facebook page which will allow users to record their own voice message. We’re inviting our Facebook [...]
Continue readingSage is sponsoring Best Blog Of An SME in the Grafton Media Blog Awards Ireland. The Blog Awards are using Sage One Accounts which is an online accounting software to manage their accounts for the blog awards, keep track of income and costs and produce invoices.
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The Swiss bank UBS has claimed that it lost over 305m EUROS on the flotation of Facebook. The Bank is suing Nasdaq for "gross mishandling" of the share sale.
The loss was caused when UBS entered too many orders for Facebook shares into the Nasdaq system which crashed under the weight of the record-breaking flotation, or initial public offering (IPO), and was unable to process the orders.
Continue readingI worked for Microsoft way back in the 1990’s. Once a year, all of the Microsoft faithful got together for a big love-in. Like high-priests that they were back then, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer would preach. Like faithful parishioners, we lapped it up. At the end of this annual bash, we were all wound up like a highly strung Swiss watches. And off we went, for another year, gunning for the Top 3 “targets” that Bill and Steve had chosen for the coming months.
Continue readingThe news feed is the first thing you see when you come to the site on Facebook and over the last week the social network has been making some pretty big changes to the content you will see there. The news feed is constantly evolving and here are 3 of the latest changes that you will be seeing...
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
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Interesting stuff coming down the line from Microsoft.
The software giant has introduced so.cl (pronounced "Social"). They just launched this new social network for students that features many Google+ and Facebook features. So.cl is being billed as a site for student collaboration and information gathering (isn't that where Facebook started?).
For now, Microsoft is calling it just an “experimental research project” and only making it available to students studying information and design at the University of Washington, Syracuse University and New York University.
You can currently add your name to the waiting list by logging in with Facebook. Ironic? Perhaps. But remember that Microsoft is a heavy investor in Facebook so I’d actually expect even more Facebook integration. Now, the big question: is there room for another social network? While Microsoft states (many times) that so.cl is not meant to replace any social network… it’s still a crowded space.
So.cl occupies an important niche (a social learning network similar to KnowU) so I’m definitely hoping for it to work out. Only time will tell.
Here's what the folks in Microsoft say about how so.cl works:
The So.cl search experience is powered by Bing; we use the public Bing APIs to display search result data. As students work together, they often look for the same content, and discover new shared interests by sharing results. These results can be web pages, images, or videos found through Bing. We see this trend today on many social networks, such as Twitter, where shared links spread virally and amplify popular content. So.cl experiments with this concept by letting
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingBut You Can Have Some Fun! By Beatrice Whelan, Social Media and Content Specialist at Sage So we’re off to the Social Media Awards on Thursday 17th May (we are finalists for Best Blog Of A Business) and we thought we would add our own element of fun to the night. Sage have placed a beach [...]
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there, it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there, it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there, it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingThe popularity of Twitter in Japan is well known with the country being responsible for at least three of the most tweeted events in recent times. Now the company is planning to "aggressively" expand in the territory and attract more advertisers as local user growth exceeds the company's global expansion...
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there, it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingWith thousands of technology and social media blogs out there it can be hard to stay on top of the constant stream of comment and analysis. I wanted to start a new feature that shares the ten must read stories of the day that I have carefully curated for you on my travels.
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingEvery week, we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there, sift through the thousands of articles on offer and bring you 25 stories that you simply have to read. These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the [...]
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingGoogle's web browser Chrome overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to become the global market leader for the first time last Sunday. According to web analytics firm StatCounter, while this was only one day, the event is significant enough for it to be labelled as a milestone...
Continue readingIt's back and with a bang. To celebrate its return, we rounded up 50 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingIt's back and with a bang. To celebrate its return, we rounded up 50 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingHaving dominated the online video market for years now, Youtube is beginning to branch out into new and different areas. Their most recent expansion involves the live streaming of major events around the world, the company being very busy in securing global events to broadcast...
Continue readingAs Gogole + continues to decline in popularity and wane out as a social platform of any relevance even one of the main engineers who worked on the platform has come out and slammed their social efforts. Upon quitting his job he claimed that Google in no way understood social and that they are now just one big giant advertising company...
Continue readingAfter rolling out apps back in mid-January with over 60 launch apps, developers have been very quick in creating their own versions and taking advantage of the platform. Facebook announced that it has added nearly 3,000 apps over the last two months at the SWSX conference...
Continue readingWhile not as illustrious as its Facebook counterpart, LinkedIn company pages are very important for companies when it comes to linking with professionals and developing a professional social media presence. Unfortunately the lack of presence of LinkedIn's company pages in the greater web means that you have to actively search on the site to find them...
Continue readingAs always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week's news and thoughts from some of the top people from the world of social media, the web and technology...
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that you need to know.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that you need to know.
Continue readingAs Facebook tries to redefine itself as a place for obtaining information and function in a similar manner to Twitter, the Subscribe function is featuring heavily in this strategy. Now the company are pushing it one step further from tomorrow by launch...
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that you need to know.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingEvery week, we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there, sift through the thousands of articles on offer and bring you 25 that you simply have to read. These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepe...
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest, we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest: we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest: we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingIn the Daily Digest: we round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours that are worth your attention.
Continue readingStarting our newest regular feature today, we'll round up the ten most important social media and technology articles from the last 24 hours so you don't have to. We'll scourer the web to find the most relevant and interesting social media stories that...
Continue readingEvery week, there are thousands of stories about social media and technology out there vying for your attention. With all that information out there, it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and cu...
Continue readingWith so much written about Facebook this week after the filing of their IPO papers it can be hard to find all the best analysis and blog posts so we have done the hard work for you and rounded up the best content form the last week. We've gone beyond t...
Continue readingEvery week, there are thousands of stories about social media and technology out there vying for your attention. With all that information out there, it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and cu...
Continue readingPrivacy has been the hot topic online for the last couple of weeks and things have gone to the next level today with Twitter starting to censor tweets in certain countries. While many see it as a great progressive move forward I think today is a day th...
Continue readingEvery week there are thousands of stories about social media and technology, and with all that information out there, it can be hard to find all the best content. Therefore, we've done all the hard work for you and curated the top 25 stories that you s...
Continue readingIf you're travelling abroad and checking into your hotel, the first thing you will want to know is how far away the city's landmarks are from your base of operations. The question of whether it'd be possible to walk to a location, or to get public tran...
Continue readingNurses working in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will be given iPhones to communicate and manage work while they are on duty. The staff will be using the Voalte communications system in the hospital's newest facility, the Lunder building, aft...
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If you visit Wikipedia today you'll see that they have gone black in protest at the SOPA bill working its way through the US congress. Wikipedia (unlike Twitter) have rightly recognised that this is a threat to the fundamental freedoms we all enjoy online as a global community.
Internet censorship is not the answer to problems of piracy online. Cato Institute research fellow Julian Sanchez explains in the video above that internet censorship in the form of the SOPA legislation in the US, won't effectively address the problem of piracy and will in fact threaten innovation, free speech and create a global online black list where sites can be removed without any due process.
Continue readingAfter many rumours circulating over the last few months, Facebook is expected to launch its IPO in the third week of May. Considering the review by the Securities and Exchange Commission which takes roughly three to four months to process, meaning that...
Continue readingMuch has been made of Facebook's exponential growth and how, despite the fact that they have roughly 800 million active users worldwide, this would slow down as the number of new members in countries like the U.S. would continue decreasing. However tha...
Continue readingStarting today, applications can be made for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDS), which look set to shake up the internet landscape. Instead of using the existing 22 domains names such as .com, .org or .co.uk, brands now have the option to use a...
Continue readingGoogle have been in a bit of hot water online since the launch of their new social search results after deciding to use their own Google + data rather than publicly available data from Facebook or Twitter. With so much being written and so much mud bei...
Continue readingWith photo sharing sites like Flickr and Instagram gaining widespread popularity among photographers and smartphone users respectively, it would take something pretty special to shake things up.Warner Bros. believe that this is something that they're c...
Continue readingEvery week there are thousands of stories about social media and technology and with all that information out there it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and curated the top 25 stories that you ...
Continue readingFoursquare are gearing up for the new year by making better use of the consumer data it has acquired since its creation. While Facebook has personal data, Foursquare is hoping that its unique focus will give it an edge over other social media sites...
Continue readingApple and Google are rumoured to be planning a bid for the rights to broadcast Premier League football on their online TV services. Both tech companies will be competing against the likes of digital satellite provider Sky and sports network ESPN for co...
Continue readingWhile this year's U.S. election is practically months away, that hasn't stopped Google from announcing their new hub for keeping track of all the developments and updates of the 2012 campaign. Google's new site is practically a rejigged version of Goog...
Continue readingAs Facebook has evolved from a social network in to a fully fledged platform the organic opportunities have waned and it is now more or less a pay to play solution only for businesses. This is great for Facebook as it drives massive revenues but what d...
Continue readingIf there is one area that is set for an explosion of technology and social media it is the car with many predicting that 2012 will be a huge year for the industry in terms of embracing technology. The first signs of that are emerging today with the lau...
Continue readingThe Office for the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland has published a full report into Facebook Ireland’s handling of data and content on their site. The entire Report spans over 228 pages of their investigation and suggestions as to how Fac...
Continue readingThe Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland has published the outcome of its audit of Facebook Ireland (FB-I). The Audit, which took over 3 months to compile, could have serious ramifications for how Facebook conducts itself in future..
Continue readingFacebook have started making some serious money from advertising on the site but the news that they are about to launch ads in to the news feed today will come as a shock to many. This is the main part of the social experience on the site until now and...
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Digital Marketing Institute, the Dublin based professional training and certification organisation, has launched a new operation in Dubai. This new organisation will train and certify students in all aspects of digital marketing throughout the Middle East region.
This new sister organisation, Digital Marketing Institute Middle East, will start offering Professional Diploma courses in the UAE from January and plans to expand across the Arab world in 2012.
Digital Marketing Institute Middle East will meet the growing demand in the region for digital marketing skills.
"Any of the digital marketing professionals we have spoken to here in the region - and we have spoken to a lot of them - will tell you that their biggest challenge is just finding those local skills," said David Carpenter, the chief executive of the newly formed Digital Marketing Institute Middle East. "There is a major problem here, and it's only going to accelerate."
One local Irish entrepreneur in the region's fledgling e-commerce industry confirmed that finding specialists in digital marketing is difficult.
"It's one of the challenges I faced," said Paul Kenny, the founder and chief executive of the daily deals site Cobone, at the launch. "There are actually not many people here practising digital."
“We are delighted with the establishment of Digital Marketing Institute Middle East” said Anthony Quigley, co-founder of Digital Marketing Institute. “Digital marketing is the fastest growing and most dynamic sector in the global economy today. It has enormous potential in the Middle East for economic development, job creation and business. We look forward to helping to make this region a global centre
Continue readingAlthough Google plus is not being embraced by the mainstream and is still confined to groups of techies and photographers you do have to admire the rate at which they are pushing updates live and their latest set of features including improved business...
Continue readingFacebook have never had the best mobile experience despite over 350 million users accessing the site via their phones and tablets. Today that all changes with the launch of a stunning app for iPhone which shows the future of mobile social networking...
Continue readingEvery week there are thousands of stories about social media and technology and with all that information out there it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and curated the top 25 stories that you ...
Continue readingEntering the daily deals market is not an easy task, to take on the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial (who had a combined total of 73 per cent in market shares in October) requires a lot of investment, planning and backing to make it a success...
Continue readingLinkedin have been carefully copying the best features on Facebook over the last year and today they launch polls for groups that are nearly identical to those over on Facebook. These polls will be a great engagement tool to help wit customer service a...
Continue readingThe new version of Facebook which has been in testing for the last couple of months is now available to everybody and is rolling out today. It's a huge move for Facebook in the biggest redesign in years and you can try it out for yourselves right now h...
Continue readingAlongside Timeline, Facebook are rolling out private messaging on brand pages. This means that any user on the social networking site can communicate directly and privately with a brand page without having to post anything on their wall.
Continue readingGoogle are branching out to location-based social media with their new competitor to Foursquare, Schemer. The site aims to make the concept more social by giving suggestions about what activities you can do wherever you are. But is this the best way to...
Continue readingEvery week there are thousands of stories about social media and technology and with all that information out there it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and curated the top 25 stories that you ...
Continue readingGoogle has thrown its hat back into the ring with its latest smart news reader Currents, which aims to win over smartphone and tablet users with its new interface and capabilities. Combining the content of reputable and popular media outlets with small...
Continue readingAmong the numerous launches at LeWeb '11, one particular site to note was social media site Webdoc, a site that has been in beta for months before being officially launched today. Webdoc is a site that allows you to mix different factions of the web to...
Continue readingEvery week there are thousands of stories about social media and technology and with all that information out there it can be hard to find all the best content which is why we have done all the hard work for you and curated the top 35 stories that you ...
Continue readingAustralian retailer Telstra have opened the world's first Android dedicated store. The store within a store features interactive technology, smartphones, tablets and games to bring it to life...
Continue readingDigital media company Adobe have made a huge step in boosting its potential for advertising online and on social media with their acquisition of the performance marketing group Efficient Frontier...
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Every week we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there and sift through the 1000s of articles to bring you 25 that you simply have to read. These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the world of technology and social media. You might not be able to get through them all in one sitting but the idea is that after a busy week where the real time streams can be out of control we offer you a selection of curated news that you can read at your leisure.
25 Google+ tips and tricks
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman On Groupon’s Big Advantage: Big Data
Steve Jobs Movie: “Something I’m Strongly Considering,” Says Social Network’s Aaron Sorkin
Protesters Look for Ways to Feed the Web
System that recognizes emotions in people’s voices could lead to less phone rage
On the Move, in a Thriving Tech Sector
The Facebook Phone: It’s Finally Real and Its Name Is Buffy
Anatomy of Facebook
MIT student is developing a lie detector for the internet
The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia
Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet
IPOs Sink Despite Flotation Devices
The Facebook Freaky Line
Writing
Cooks bring crowdsourced recipes to the holiday dinner table
A plea for a better Google Docs
Copyright Fair Use and How it Works
Despite a strong start when they IPO'd it looks as if the writing could be on the wall for daily deals site Groupon as their share price is sent tumbling today. Sliding over 15% in one day and back to pre IPO levels it looks like the market is starting...
Continue readingYesterday saw Google rolling out their music product to the public (USA only). Although the service looks impressive, you have to wonder if they are beginning to overstretch themselves again by trying to be everything to everybody and whether this is g...
Continue readingShare Tweet Ireland is rapidly being recognised as a hub of innovation and creativity in the technology sector. This reputation [...]
Continue readingWhen it comes to creating apps, the barriers to entry are starting to decrease rapidly. This video with a twelve year old kid giving a presentation at a TedX event shows that just about anybody can now create their own applications and businesses from ...
Continue readingAs social media continues to grow one question keeps popping up and that is should employees be allowed to use it in the work place. A new study that has just been released shows that most people think it should be and only a small percentage of people...
Continue readingShare Tweet Connector and EYP Christmas Party and competition Our sister brand Connector has joined forces with the European Young [...]
Continue readingEvery week we round up 25 of the biggest social media stories of the week by sifting through the thousands of articles out there on the subject. This week has been a big week for Google with lots of updates to their platform while Facebook have been ma...
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