Leitrim Business Network

Some great tips about business blogging from Damien.

From Carol Quinlan of Blue Hills Consulting

Blue Hills Consulting would like to invite you to the launch of their new website and also to their revamped facilities at Carrick-on-Shannon.

We value the importance of the Internet and the Web to advice people on the work we are doing to provide the best service that we can to our Clients. Our web site allows you to look inside our business and see how we propose to keep ourselves at the edge.

So grab a tea/coffee, have a seat and take a few moments to join us in launching our new office and website.

Many thanks for your time.

Best of luck with the new site Carol.

As per an email I sent out yesterday, I would like to introduce our new Promotional Offers section. Here you can offer discounts to other networks members by leaving your details in the comments section below.

To start things off, I received the first offer from Leon Quinn of Reverb Studios.

Reverb Studios Multimedia & Web Site Design would like to offer Leitrim Business Network members the opportunity to add a BLOG to their existing site at a heavily discounted flat rate of €350.

Blogs are a fantastic way of communicating with your customers and target market and offering them your latest news and valuable information on your market sector. Think of a blog as an online diary but with a business slant rather than personal.

Blogs are also VERY useful in attracting website hits and Google rankings and can indirectly increase your enquiries and sales as my own one has, see www.reverbstudios.ie/blog

For those without a site or hosting, having a blog can still be arranged, please contact us for details. info[@]reverbstudios.ie - 087-6147538 - Leon.

Please contact me if you need anymore information about this discount section and feel free to leave your promotional offer in the comments section below.

……all your digital stuff. Putplace lets you “secure, organize and share your digital life”.

I use it and I really like it.  I wish it was around when a laptop turned against me in 2001 and an external hard-drive in 2004. Be warned. Use this service and start today.

From Damien

This is the first of the companies to be covered on The Tuesday Push. PutPlace, as their blurb states does this: “secure, organize and share your digital life”. Think about all the media that you have all over the place: On cameras, iPods, memory cards, portable drives, that old battered laptop you’ve kept as there are some docs on it that you might use someday…

So imagine all of that data was nuked/wiped/drowned. Well PutPlace allows you firstly to see what you have, then sort it, then back it up. Then if you want to push that stuff to another place, you can do that.

That PutPlace feeling is knowing all those digital bits and bobs are sorted. I do like the case studies part of the site. PutPlace is currently in Beta so it’s free to use. They recently opened up to public beta so are looking for testers. So you’ll get 2 gigs of unlimited space (during beta) to back up all your digital pieces and they’ll be backed up in a sensible way, not you just mass uploading stuff from folders.

Please consider trying out and reviewing PutPlace or talk it up on your blog.

Leitrim Association of People with Disabilities represented by chair-person, Mr.Tom Murphy won the overall Cathaoirleach’s award for 2008 in Cloone on Tuesday last.

Leitrim Business Network Meetings take place on the first Tuesday of every month at 6pm in the The Ramada Lough Allen Hotel, Drumshanbo.

Next meeting: Tuesday July 1st

Agenda: 6pm SHARP: Welcome

6.05: Speaker: Campbell Scott, CEO of IGOpeople, Dublin.

Today consumers are increasingly using services such as social networks and discussion forums, to organise and to share opinion with friends. Businesses are often the topic of discussion, but the businesses themselves are struggling to take part in this discussion, as they are often not well received or in some cases may even be excluded. At the same time, traditional broadcast media is proving less effective for brands, particularly in addressing a younger audience, who can be less receptive to the marketing message. The Internet has become a more popular advertising media, as the rate of growth of spend on advertising outstrips other forms of media. However, advertising alone does not realise the full potential and “two-way” nature of the Internet – to to create a conversation with customers!

IGOpeople is a new service that allows brands and organisations to find, connect and do business with consumers.
The service is created using the best bits of social networks, directories, search and blogs.
It brings together individuals, groups and organisations in one place, so that they can find, connect and converse with the right people, to help get things done.

Businesses can use the service to;
• listen to consumers and collect ideas and feedback
• collect sales enquiries and make offers
• provide improved customer support

For consumers, IGOpeople offers the convenience of connecting with all the brands they deal with, from one place.

IGOpeople Introduction - 2 Page PDF

6.20: Q & A

6.30: Networking

6.50: Discussion

7.oo: Close

ICT Network Meeting

7pm to 8pm

From Mary Dolan | info[@]carrickonshannon.ie | carrickonshannon.ie |

The Chamber’s help has been sought for this fascinating social history project in which you may have an interest (as an individual or as a company). The idea is to record as much social history as possible before it is lost.

The filmmakers are looking for at least one individual (preferably a grandmother, but all considered) from each of the 32 Counties who has an anecdotal story to tell about life in Ireland 50-60-70+ years ago. They are also looking for financial backers OR people/companies which can provide/underwrite in-kind assistance such as accommodation, transportation, supplies, etc., to the production company in return for PR opportunities.

If you know of a great storyteller who has lived through the many changes that have occurred in Ireland, perhaps you will determine whether she/he is interested in participating in the project.

Follow the link below to read more about this project, which starts filming on Monday next, 30th June. You can reply directly to Shane Dempsey at the contact numbers below.

www.fragmentstheatre.com/news

From ENN

Enterprise Ireland has announced the line-up for this year’s National Innovation Forum: Making Innovation Deliver Results, which will be held in Croke Park on 11 September. The forum will address how innovation can deliver tangible results for organisations. Speakers include Robert Shelton, author of Making Innovation Work and Dr Elena Lurie-Luke, head of Bioscience Business Development and member of Proctor and Gamble’s Connect & Develop team.

I will be conducting podcast interviews in the Bush Hotel from 10am to 1pm.

Half hour slots are available.

Please let me know which slot suits you by placing your name beside a slot below.

10am - Maurice Gannon

10.30am - Mary Dolan

11am - Anne Hurrell

11.30am - Eamon Mc Grenaghan

12pm - Enda Madden

12.30pm - Nuala Duignan

Via Damien

Porter Novelli put together a really good concise guide on how to approach bloggers if you want to pitch to them or do business with them or send them/us something interesting. They contacted me and asked was there anything I’d like to add and there wasn’t, I think they’ve got it all covered. Anyone that’s in business should take a look at this because more and more you’ll probably be reaching out to bloggers.

Thanks Damien.