Three years ago myself and a number of other bloggers attended the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, liveblogged, (It’s amazing to read it back) took photos, video , blogged and encouraged people in attendance to tweet and engage. We were looked at a bit strangely as we were there for the sake of doing it. OK […]
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“Tourism Ireland has always strived to be at the cutting edge of e-marketing and we have worked hard to strengthen our social media presence.” So says Vera Stedman, Tourism Ireland’s deputy head of Great Britain, when she accepted the award for Best Use of Social Media’ category at the UK travel industry’s Travolution awards in […]
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The Standards in Public Office Commission published the 2011 General Election expenses from all registered political parties and candidates last month. It is interesting to see how the war chests are spent and how many companies earn from elections being held. Election Mall (based in the USA) were paid €149,435 by Fine Gael for publicity […]
Nothing seems to have changed in the vetting of advertisements for internships in the JobBridge programme. But members of the public are fighting back and vetting the adverts themselves – if you spot an advert which appears to be the provision of free labour to a private enterprise or replacement for a previously paying position […]
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Thinking aloud for a bit. For years I have endured commentary from those in mainly the print media about the fact that bloggers can’t be trusted, have no editors or legitimacy. Despite asserting that blogging and mainstream journalism were different things, talking about crowd sourcing and fact checking and pointing to the fact that often […]
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