The plates are hardly dry from last night’s great blogger’s dinner and we have another spectacular one planned.
The date is November 28th, time and venue are yet to be decided - mark it in your calendars now!
November 28th is the eve of it@cork’s 2006 Business and Technology conference, so I made sure to invite the speakers who blog to the bloggers dinner, when I was asking them to speak at the conference.
The list of bloggers who have agreed to come to the dinner is impressive:
Hugh MacLeod
Marc Canter
Salim Ismail and
Jeff Nolan
I’m sure we can convince Hugh to bring some of that Stormhoek wine he is always raving about!
Now, I wonder if we can find somebody to sponsor the food as well…
If you plan to come to the dinner, or are interested in sponsoring the event, leave your name in the comments of this post (or send me an email - tom@tomrafteryit.net).
Last night’s blogger’s dinner was a great success - thanks to Pat for organising (and paying for) it.
Shel Israel and Rick Segal were the guests of honour and both had lots of interesting info to impart. Rick talked up MusicIP - I missed the start of the conversation but I assume MusicIP is a company he has invested in. MusicIP scans your music (Windows, Linux, Mac) and creates playlists for you based on your mood!!! amongst other things.
Little did I realise when I first started conversing with Shel last year that I’d convince him to come to Cork twice this year (first for the it@cork Web 2.0 conference and now for his global tour) - it just goes to show the power of blogs as a networking tool!
[Final Update] - Post title changed one more (and final) time. I have updated this post one final time because I didn’t realise how quickly and more importantly how high up my post would come in a search for Noah’s name. I have spoken to Noah and he is genuinely sorry and I don’t (now) think the hotlinking was done maliciously. Lesson learned, Google places a lot more stock in what I say than I had realised. Must remember to think before I Publish, must remember to ….
[UPDATE] I have changed the title of this post. Many people have responded in the comments of this post to say I was too harsh on Noah - and they are completely correct. I thought about titling the post “Reasons not to steal bandwidth” (Noah’s post is titled “Reasons not to blog”) and taking a much more humourous approach to the issue but it was Monday morning and I let my temper get in the way (red hair!). Lesson learned - take a deep breath before hitting Publish!
If you link to an image on someone else’s site you really should ask their permission. Otherwise, every time someone views the image on your site, you are stealing bandwidth from the site hosting the image.
Noah Kagan did this recently. He used an image from this site on his blog without asking my permission. This is theft. I pay for the bandwidth that he and his site’s viewers are consuming.
Of course, there is another very good reason not to link to images on someone else’s site - you have no control over those images. They could be deleted, renamed, or changed at any time - like below - I replaced the image Noah was using with a more appropriate one - now Noah’s site is hosting an image which tells it as it is!
Poetic justice. That bandwidth I am happy to pay for.
Shel Israel (former PR exec turned social media consultant) and Rick Segal (highly respected VC) are coming to Cork next Tuesday.
Rick and Shel, as well as attending the blogger’s dinner that Pat has arranged for them, are also making themselves available to meet entrepreneurs on the afternoon of Tuesday Oct 17th.
If you have a couple of business ideas or a startup you’d like some (free) advice about from two of the world’s leading experts, leave a comment here and I’ll arrange that you get to meet with them.
The business blogging workshop I held in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) yesterday seemed to go very well. The online feedback was very positive as were a lot of the comments during the course of the day.
The workshop itself was quite challenging to pitch because the attendees spanned communications, marketing, business development and deep tech. Some had been blogging for years, some never read blogs and a couple were in-between!
What I decided to do was let the attendees tell me their reasons for attending the course, and I then structured the workshop on the fly to try to address those needs. This approach, although more difficult than working through a prepared presentation, worked quite well - particularly because I made it a very interactive day for the attendees. We had some great discussions and addressed issues directly relevant to those who were present.
I’ll be in Waterford Institute of Technology all day today giving a seminar on business blogging - expect few posts today!
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