Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster
I listened to Conn’s podcast interview with Michael Byrne of QBC Ltd over the weekend.
It was great. Conn and Michael are using podcasts in a very innovative way to radically improve internal company communications.
I’m really looking forward to Conn’s presentation at the it@cork Podcasting for Business event tomorrow night now!
it@cork are running an evening event on Podcasting for your Business this coming Tuesday evening (27th February).
Brian Greene and Conn O’Muineachain, the two guest speakers addressing the event are two of Ireland’s top podcasters having won the Netvisionaries Podcasting award last year and the Digital Media Awards Grand Prix award this year respectively!
Conn will be discussing Podcasting for internal company communications (training, best practice, recognition, etc.) while Brian will focus on how easy podcasting is to do, and how the public facing parts of corporate Ireland should be looking at it.
I’ll be chairing the event and moderating the q&a.
The event is free to it@cork member companies and €20 to non-members. This is a great opportunity to meet two of Ireland’s foremost podcasters, I strongly recommend going along, even if you are only wondering what all this podcasting stuff is all about anyway!
[Disclaimer - I am on the steering committee of it@cork]
Eddie Hobbs gave the keynote address at the recent it@cork conference.
It was a wide-ranging, interesting and very topical talk.
This afternoon I published a recording of his address on the it@cork blog. It is 55 minutes long (including the q & a at the end) but well worth taking the time to listen to.
I know I said the it@cork conference was really good - well, I’m not the only one who thought so!
Over on Confabb, Salim’s conference site, there are lots of good reviews of the conference and of the individual speakers.
This is going to be a very useful resource for it@cork (and the individual speakers) moving forward as we’ll be able to point back to Confabb to show how much value the attendees got from the conference.
If you were at the conference and haven’t left feedback on Confabb, please do so. Thanks.
[At the outset, let me say that any comments I make on this event will be coloured by the fact that I was one of the organisers!]
Ok, with that out of the way, I think yesterday’s event was a tremendous success! There were over 250 people attended (Catherine can give me exact numbers but I think 250 is pretty close to the ball park).
The speakers were almost all great, both in terms of the content and the delivery. Tom Corcoran sums the day up nicely on the RAI Centre blog.
The speaker’s slides will be up on the it@cork site in the next couple of days and I hope to get the recordings of the talks from the a/v company and podcast them on the it@cork blog in the coming weeks.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the day the great success it was.
Jacques-Etienne Grandjean is the Senior Director, Comm Sector Western Europe of Microsoft. Jean-Etienne’s presentation title is “Are Desktop Applications the way of the past?”
Jacques-Etienne is unfortunately doing a sales job on Microsoft Live rather than addressing the actual title of his talk. Not once, even when discussing search, did he mention any of Microsoft’s competitors.
Shame really ‘cos, while Microsoft are behind in this space, a couple of their Live offerings are quite good but not mentioning the better products of their competitors, devalues all of Microsoft’s Live offerings.
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