April 30, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized by patrickbrowne

Social Media Tweets of the Week – 29th April 2012

Welcome to this weeks Tweets of the Week from @socialmedia_ie.  Be sure to check out the Infographic on tracking the success of B2B Marketing by Ruta Danyte here. If you’re into advertising, Google offer some great tips on Adwords here. Social media-as-promotion is discussed in this article which offers a contemporary take on the 4 P’s of Marketing. Lastly make sure to sign up for Dublin Beta where you will also have a chance to see BOSS metrics in action. Read more »

April 16, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized by patrickbrowne

Social Media Tweets of the week – 15th April 2012

Tweets of the week, from @socialmedia_ie, are now back to being published on Mondays. This week we bring you great tips from the world of Social Media. If you are interested in advertising and Social Networks such as Facebook make sure to check out the special report from Cotton Delo. Facebook and Microsoft bring you the project “A year in the Like”, a nifty little add on that visualises your Like history. Make sure to check out the next helping of Social Media Stats from the social SKINNY and if you want to understand how Oprah is using Social TV, follow the link to see how she has taken the use of Social Media to the next level.

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March 28, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized by patrickbrowne

Tweets of the Week – 27th March 2012

Another week of great social media tips and information from @socialmedia.ie. This week we brought you case studies from the 2011 Irish Social Media Awards. Make sure to check out companies that are effectively using Google+ and pick up some tips for your Facebook Timeline Business Page here. Also make sure to check out the witty new video from the Dollar Shave Club featuring a great concept for selling razors.

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November 1, 2011 in Blog, Digital Video, Press and Media, Social Media, Training by fionapope

News Mashup – Tuesday 1st November

Digital Video

Our new corporate digital video has arrived. We had lots of fun making this digital video from start to finish. We would like to thank Liane Costello, Sam Conor and Ellen Murphy for their hard work getting this video made. We would also like to thank Phillip Bagnall, Anna Pospieszynska, Anna Maguire, Zephra Cooney, Rob McDonald, Domingo Sanchez, Jean Igoe, Clare Hynes for doing an excellent job dancing in the corridors.

New Pages on SocialMedia.ie

We have added another new page to our website. You can now read about our previous campaigns with companies such as Canon, Sage Ireland and Dublin City Enterprise Board.

Training

We have loads of training sessions coming up in the next few weeks including the Irish Travel Agency Association and Daralinn.  Conor and Cian will also be visiting Wexford, Dundalk, Limerick as well as providing our usual training in Dublin.  We hope to see you at one of these events!

Web Awards

Cian Corbett was a judge at the Web Awards 2011 which took place on the 22nd of October. Click here for the full list of the winners which includes Hairy Baby and The Irish Times.

Appy Awards

We previously told you that Conor Lynch is a judge at this years Appy Awards which will take place in the Mansion House on the 3rd of November 2011. The shortlist of the nominees has been released, did your favourite app make the shortlist?

Tribes challenge

We launched our Tribes Challenge 2011 on the 14th of October. There are only a couple of weeks to go before the deadline, we are looking forward to reading all of your entries!

Sunday Business Post

We are still featuring in the Sunday Business Post every week. Sunday’s article was about building your company’s brand using digital video. Don’t forget to buy next Sunday’s paper to read our next article.

October 29, 2011 in Blog, Blogging, Digital Video, Press /Media, Press and Media, Small Business, Social Media by Conor

SocialMedia.ie Sunday Business Post article on Digital Video today

If you have seen the Sunday Business Post today you can see part 6 of our ‘Social Media for Start-Ups’ series and this week we look at digital video.  Here is a photo of the article and we will have the pdf online in coming days.

To see some examples of digital videos we have produced at SocialMedia.ie like this one released this week, please check out SocialMedia.ie Digital Video.  Please get in touch if you would like to hear how we can help you create a digital video for your online presence by emailing team@socialmedia.ie

October 28, 2011 in Blog, Digital Video, Press and Media, Social Media by fionapope

Lights, Camera, Action…Play!

We previously told you about our plans to create more digital content for SocialMedia.ie. Today is your lucky day because the wait is finally over.  We filmed the digital video on Tuesday the 30th of September at our Capel Street offices. Liane Costello directed this digital video, with the help of Sam Conor on camera and Ellen Murphy on sound, and Kieran Duffy completed the digital video with his design work.  Conor Lynch stars in the video along with the rest of the SocialMedia.ie and connector.TV team.  We had a lot of fun filming this video so we hope you have as much fun watching it!

Let us know what you think!

October 25, 2011 in Blog, Blogging, Digital Video, Training by Conor

Social Media Digital Video Training

Enjoyed digital video training at the ITAA today via DMI where we watched a selection of impact full low budget digital videos for YouTube.com

October 3, 2011 in Blog, Blogging, Business, Digital Video, Events, Press /Media, Press and Media, Social Media, Training by fionapope

SocialMedia.ie News: October 3rd

SocialMedia.ie is an iia Net Visionary Award winner!

On Friday night SocialMedia.ie was delighted to win the Irish Internet Association (iia) Net Visionary Award for ‘Best Use of Social Media’. We would like to thank Joan, Vicky and Ailbhe for organising such a great event and everyone who kindly voted for us!

Congratulations to the other people shortlisted and winners which especially to our good friend and connector.TV blogger James Whelton who won the award for Best Rookie!

Lights, camera, action!

We previously told you about our plans to create more digital content for SocialMedia.ie. The wait is nearly over as we will be filming this exciting new video on Tuesday the 30th of September. Liane Costello will be directing this video so there is no doubt that it is going to be excellent.

Booking Now for the Exciting New SocialMedia.ie Training Courses

We have re-designed two of our courses, the Social Media Toolbox and the Digital Strategy Workshop to provide you with the best possible learning experience. These workshops are now known as the Social Media Managers Masterclass and the Digital Marketing Managers Masterclass. We are now taking bookings for these exciting new courses!

New Page on SocialMedia.ie

We have been busy improving our website lately. We have just added a new page to the site where you can discover how we can help you in the development of your website or blog. Our previous clients for this service include ESB International, ISME and DCEB.

Find out more about this service here.

Sunday Business Post

We are still featuring in the Sunday Business Post every week. Yesterday’s article was about building your brand and your company’s brand on LinkedIn. Don’t forget to read next week’s article where we will be discussing how get started with blogging and how to reach out to other bloggers!

September 30, 2011 in Blog, Business, Careers, Events, Seminars, Social Media by fionapope

SocialMedia.ie Launches New Social Media Course for NUI Maynooth

We are delighted to partner with NUI Maynooth to design and deliver a 12 week social media module for the Year 3 Business and Management students.

This module will be assessment based with a combination of both theory and practical. The lectures will enable students to learn about the growing and diverse world of social media through a mixture of theory and case study examples. The practical element of the module will see the students implementing the theory using social media tools (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Digital Video and Blogs) to demonstrate what they have learned during this exciting module.

Lecturers Conor Lynch and Cian Corbett are really looking forward to working with the college and students on this exciting & innovative new course.

September 20, 2011 in Blog, Blogging, Digital Video, Events, Social Media by fionapope

SocialMedia.ie Weekly News: September 19th

We have been very busy in the Socialmedia.ie offices and have some exciting plans in place.

Current Projects and New Team Members

Along with our regular social media training, we are currently working on a number of projects with Sage, NUI Maynooth and The Telecommunication Software and Systems Group (TSSG). In addition to these exciting projects, we have four new additions to the Socialmedia.ie team. Joining us are Cian Corbett, Fiona Pope, Liane Costello and Kieran Duffy.

Welcome to the team!

Exciting News

Conor Lynch has been asked to be a judge for the Junior Spider Awards. The programme began in 2009 and is aimed at students at primary and post primary school level. These awards aim to acknowledge the innovation amongst web creators in schools and to honour outstanding online achievements. Closing date for entries is November 1st so apply now!

Blogger of the Month

Congratulations to Phillip Bagnall who has been chosen as the first connector.TV Blogger of the Month! This award is well deserved by Phillip for all of his his sterling work watching and reviewing movies for connector.TV.

Well done Phillip, we look forward to reading your next blog post!

More Digital Video Content:

Upon Conor Lynch’s nomination for the iia Net Visionary Awards, we created this special 1950s video to highlight his achievement.

We have joined forces with director Martin Moylan once again to create even more digital content. Here we are brainstorming for our next creation. It is sure to be a good one so watch this space!