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November 28, 2010October 25, 2011

Dahlinks 28.11.2010

The best laid plans of mice and moms, eh? So much for my plan to at the very least post some links every week! I spend quite a bit of time (usually of an evening!) trawling the web for great content. Here are some of the most arresting items I have found in the last week. Many of these I share via the IIA’s Twitter account where I work so if you want them as I find them, follow the IIA on Twitter. Some of these I also share in my upcoming article for Beo. In no particular order:

How Women Connect, Catch Up and Find Comfort with Online Video | Nielsen Wire
SpoiltChild have developed a Marketing ROI Calculator. As with so much from SpoiltChild it looks good enough to eat and it’s super-useful too.
Irish Online Retailers Christmas list brought to you by Damien Mulley. A database of Irish retailers to help those who wish to spend their euros & cents in Ireland this festive season.
Speaking of presents (we were, weren’t we?) GiftGenies have launched an iPhone app, “Ask the Gift Genies” which was included in iTunes New & Noteworthy this week. Ooh la la!
If you’re looking for kids’ presents I love Mimitoys whose site also includes stocking fillers. I never have to go into town again!
You might also find a super cool present or two at A Year of Tees. This is my favourite.
Bernie Goldbach recommends using Snap Bird for deep searches inside Twitter’s history. http://snapbird.org/
Krishna De shares an online visibility video tip – How to check the availability of your name on the social web with www.UD.com
The CMO’s Guide To The Social Media Landscape a great chart to help you decide which social media best suits your marketing strategy (hat tip to PeopleLovePresents again.)
10 Mobile Payment Innovations – Are We There Yet? by Brendan Hughes.
Lauren Fisher curated #commschat this week which focused on corporate blogs. A curated conversation on Twitter is an interesting format for sharing ideas, experiences and content. Check out the transcript of the conversation here.
Comscore reports that More Than 100 Million Mobile Consumers in EU5 Received SMS Advertising
I could not get this out of my head last weekend. No flippin thanks to Darren Byrne.
Bridie from Roscommon – More amazing videos are a click away

August 18, 2009August 18, 2009

Not all bloggers are idiots or lunatics

Why not come and meet some and find out?

Last February Irish blogger Jason Roe had his 15 minutes of fame after an online tussle with some of Ryanair’s staff. I don’t know if it was a wish to prove that all bloggers, twitterers, whatever, are not actually idiots or lunatics that prompted Jason to start organising the BTW (Blogger, Twitter, Whatever) Meetups but they have been going from strength to strength since. I made it to the last one and it was a great opportunity to put a few faces to names. Embarrassingly it was rather difficult for me to keep those names attached to those faces in one instance but it had been a long day!

The next BTW meetup is on Thursday 3rd September in the Kudos Bar in the Clarion Hotel in the IFSC. There’ll be eating and drinking and it kicks off at 7pm. It doesn’t matter if you are new to blogging or tweeting or if you’re an old hand, you should come along. It will be fun, you’ll meet new people and maybe learn a few tricks about gaining international notoriety from the man himself!