Media Moves for Social Change

Just getting back to work after a long weekend break with the family - more about that later!
Meanwhile, David from Mediaforum reminds me about the upcoming Media Moves conference in Galway on 8th June.  I had the pleasure of a brief meeting with David recently in Dublin and I was very impressed by the scope of [...]

Irish Business Women Rock!

I’m still recovering from doing two conferences and driving 500 miles last Thursday and Friday.  It was great to catch up with Michele, Brian and Jason at the Irish Internet Association Annual Congress, and I also met Richard Delevan, Richard Hearne and David Behan, to mention just a few.
After a heroic editing marathon, Brian has just published the entire suite [...]

QBC Podcasts Score in iTunes

Business coach and podcaster, Michael Byrne, is the latest new entry in iTunes Ireland’s podcasting chart.  Listeners can choose either of two podcast feeds: The Customer Experience or Employee Engagement.  There’s also a combined feed for those who want to hear all QBC podcasts in both series.  That’s currently at number 25 in the Business Podcast [...]

Podleaders in Pictures

News just in: Podleader’s Tom Raftery has just published his first video podcast.  Fellow Corkman Conor O’Neill is the honoured guest as he and Tom discuss Conor’s startup LouderVoice.Com.
I’ve blogged about LouderVoice.Com before (though not in English!)  Now it’s open to the public, though, so head on over.  Do you like to review things on your [...]

Irish Internet Association Annual Congress

I’m in Dublin at the IIA Annual Congress at Fitzpatrick’s Castle Hotel in Killiney.  Breakout sessions are underway and I’m at one chaired by Michele Neylon (and sponsored by his company).  “How to make money from blogging and podcasting”.  I really hope they figure out the answer to that!
Heading to Mayo tonight for [...]

The Importance of Working with People who Share your Vision

Aldagh McDonogh and Sandra Lawler had an idea for a business.  With a background in marketing for large corporations, they took the plunge and started out working from home.
Seven years later, Alternatives Marketing is a highly successful business.  It’s an agency for matching marketing talent with specific contracts on a range of projects.  Their success has been [...]

IrishBusinessWomen.com launch new podcast ahead of annual conference

Edgecast Media is delighted to announce sponsorship of IrishBusinessWomen.com’s 2nd annual conference which will be held on Friday next, 18th of May in Westport, County Mayo.
IrishBusinessWomen.com is an online forum which does exactly what it says on the tin.  It’s full of women, doing business, and sharing their experience of that with each other.  Men are [...]

Digiculture #1: The Singing Entrepreneur

Open Coffee Limerick is proving to be the most extraordinarily meeting ground for people in Ireland’s Mid West. The idea is that people involved or interested in entrepreneurship and startups can get together informally to network, and as James has pointed out, there appears to be a lot of potential synergy among the regular [...]

QBC Launch new Website and Podcasts

We’ve been working closely with QBC Ltd, the executive coaching firm run by Michael Byrne, to integrate podcasting and blogging into the delivery of the Customer Experience and Employee Engagement programmes they provide.
Michael’s taken podcasting to the heart of his operation and he eats his own dogfood.  There’s no point in recommending podcasting and blogging to clients [...]