The IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary 2010 – Dylan Collins

May 21, 2010 · Posted in Net Visionary Awards 2010, Uncategorized · 3 Comments 

Last night, Dylan Collins was announced as the IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary 2010.

Congratulations to Dylan Collins, Net Visionary winner 2010. This award recognises his commitment to innovation and excellence within the Irish Internet industry.

Dylan Collins Net Visionary

Yesterday evening, in the Crowne Plaza Northwood, 15 category Awards were presented recognising the achievements across the gamut of the Irish Internet Industry. Closing the Awards, Maeve Kneafsey, Chairperson of the IIA, and Jennifer Condon of Enterprise Ireland, announced Dylan Collins as the 2010 Overall IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary.

Dylan Collins, serial entrepreneur of DemonWare and Jolt Games success is a true internet visionary.  His meteoric success is unprecedented within the Irish Internet industry.  In his early 30s, Dylan’s ability to innovate is unrivalled in the online gaming sector on an Irish and international stage.  He is the embodiment of all that is great about this industry – ingenuity, pace and determination.   Yet of all these qualities, it is his unstinting generosity in mentoring other internet start-ups and his commitment to the industry as a whole that truly sets him apart as a most worthy winner of this industry accolade.

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The IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary 2010 – Full Winners List

May 21, 2010 · Posted in Net Visionary Awards 2010 · 4 Comments 

The Net Visionary Awards, now in their 12th year, are unique in that they are voted on by the internet industry itself. Fifteen award categories reflects the prolific adoption of internet technologies in Ireland, both in business and local communities.  These awards are testament to the value of the internet as an enabler of business growth particularly in challenging times. The Awards’ evening remains one of the best in Ireland – the perfect occasion to celebrate success with industry peers.

IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionaries

Master of Ceremonies, Gareth Dunlop, Managing Director of ION Online Marketing, presided over the awards which began with the Best Business Blogger Category. Please see below the full list of Net Visionary Winners and if you require any further details or if you wish to speak with any of the winners, please email Joan Mulvihill or Darren Byrne or call 01-5424154. joan@iia.ie, darren@iia.ie. Photographs are now available on pix.ie/iiaphotos.

Best Business Blogger – sponsored by Ireland.com (Presented by Keith Mahon, General Manager, Ireland.com)

Winner: Amy Dillon – Makeup and Beauty.ie


Best Business Video & Podcasting – sponsored by Muzu.tv (Presented by Mark French, Managing Director, Muzu.tv)

Winner: Marcus O’Doherty – RTÉ Player


Best Online Financial Service – sponsored by Data Electronics (Presented by Maurice Mortell, Chief Executive, Data Electronics)

Winner: Elaine Murphy – insure.ie


Best Online Trader – (Presented by Judge -  Eoin O’Siochru, Manager, Internet Marketing Unit, Enterprise Ireland)

Winner: Daragh Murphy – HairyBaby Clothing Company


Best Use of Social Media – sponsored by Elucidate (Oonagh McCutcheon, Operations Manager, Elucidate)

Winner: Michele Neylon – Blacknight Solutions

 

e-Government Award – sponsored by AIB Merchant Services (Presented by Chris Mason, Managing Director, AIB MS)

Winner: Joanne Grehan – Western Development Commission

 

Innovation Award – sponsored by RTÉ.ie (Marcus O Doherty, Head of Technology, RTE Publishing)

Winner: Ed Hendrick – Sonru Ltd

 

Internet Entrepreneur – sponsored by IE Domain Registry (Presented by David Curtin, Chief Executive, IEDR)

Winner: Dr Des O’Mahony – Bookassist

“Peer recognition is real recognition. This is what the Net Visionary Awards give. Being shortlisted by industry insiders and being supported by internet community voting at large marks a genuine measure of achievement for nominees and winners alike.” – Dr Des O’Mahony

 

Internet Marketer – sponsored by Graphedia (Presented by Niall Reck, Managing Director, Graphedia)

Winner: Vanessa Johnston – Pigsback.com

“I was surprised to be nominated and absolutely thrilled to have been shortlisted for the IIA Internet Marketer Award. I am passionate about the industry and am privileged to be marketing online during a period of such great change. I have had the opportunity to work with a hugely talented and energetic team at Pigsback.com. If I was to win this award it would be thanks to this team.” – Vanessa Johnston


Journalist Award – sponsored by ICAN (Presented by Shenda Loughnane, Managing Director, ICAN)

Winner: Mark Little – Mark Little News

Mobile Internet Innovation – sponsored by SiliconRepublic.com (John Kennedy, Editor, SiliconRepublic.com)

Winner: Bob Nixon – Georgina Campbell’s ireland-guide.com

“Being shortlisted for two awards in the 2010 IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards means the world to everyone at Georgina Campbell’s ireland-guide.com as it is formal recognition from respected peers in the internet industry of the hard work and effort that we have put in to be innovative in our industry and to achieve the very highest quality.” – Bob Nixon


Online Tourism Award – sponsored by Fáilte Ireland (Stephen Dudley, Manager eBusiness Development, Fáilte Ireland)

Winner: Bob Nixon – Georgina Campbell’s ireland-guide.com

 

Social Contribution – sponsored by IE Domain Registry (Presented by David Curtin, Chief Executive, IEDR)

Winner: Ruth Kearney: DIT Hothouse

“We are delighted to be shortlisted for such established awards and the opportunity to be among some of Ireland’s best Internet businesses. At DIT Hothouse we communicate with several audiences using different online media such as video, social, email and our website. The IIA enables us to reach our target audience with greater impact and to be shortlisted is a great achievement for us” – Ruth Kearney

Web Designer Excellence – sponsored by HostelWorld.com (Presented by Feargal Mooney, CEO, HostelWorld.com)

Winner: Lisa Westermann – Fusio

“Being shortlisted is hugely rewarding. It’s always great to get positive feedback of course, but even more so when it comes from the greater community. It really gives an extra boost to have my design work acknowledged on a different level and highly motivates not just me but the whole team in FUSIO to work even harder on creating high-quality and user-friendly designs that work for our clients.” – Lisa Westermann


Web Developer Excellence – sponsored by Microsoft (Presented by Clare Dillon, Developer and Platform Group Lead, Microsoft)

Winner: David Henry – Modus


Overall Net Visionary 2010 – Dylan Collins

 


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Net Visionary Awards 2010 Winners Logos

May 20, 2010 · Posted in Net Visionary Awards 2010 · Comment 

This is a full list of Net Visionary Awards 2010 Winners Logos. If anybody needs different shapes, sizes, etc. please contact darren[at]iia.ie.


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The 51M Recreates Her Historic Voyage 50 Years On

May 18, 2010 · Posted in Congress 2010, Digitise the Nation · Comment 

The Heritage Boat Association are out in force this week and I wanted to share with you a little bit of what they’re up to.

Fifty years after Canal Boat 51M carried the last commercial cargo from Dublin outbound to Limerick along the Grand Canal and River Shannon, the Heritage Boat Association (HBA) will re-create her historic voyage.

Waterways Ireland, who own the boat, have agreed to allow the HBA to re-create the final farewell to commercial canal traffic in Ireland.

Heritage Boat AssociationOn her last journey 51M’s cargo consisted of a consignment of Guinness for the Limerick depot and at the time their departure caused quite a stir with both the public and the press. Press photos of the occasion still exist including an Irish Times photo and HBA intend to re-create the exact photograph which they expect will again capture the imagination of the public and the press. See the link to the Irish Times archive here.

While the skipper on that historic voyage has since passed away, they will have his sons on board as part of the current crew. A flotilla of other surviving Heritage Canal Boats will escort 51M westward towards the Shannon.

51M will depart from the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre beside the new theatre in Grand Canal Basin on Wednesday 19th May at 2pm, and after a short stop at Mespil Road continue her ‘leaving of Dublin’ on Thursday May 20th departing at 1.30pm.

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Digitising the Nation with The Digital Hub

May 18, 2010 · Posted in Congress 2010, Digitise the Nation · 2 Comments 

The Internet is affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives – how we learn, travel, and even watch TV. The Internet is also changing the way we do business. The aim of the Irish Internet Association, which is located in The Digital Hub, is to Connect, Inform and Promote and further to this we are currently hosting a national campaign called ‘Digitise the Nation’ for the Internet Industry in Ireland from 17th – 21st of May 2010. There are many events taking place during the week, under a number of themes including ‘Connectivity’ and ‘Entrepreneurship’.

Here Stephen Brennan, Director of Marketing and Strategy at the Digital Hub Development Agency talks about how consumers are using the Internet in increasingly large numbers to purchase products and services and how Irish business and entrepreneurs should take advantage of the Internet to invent and/or expand a business.

For further information on Digitise the Nation go to www.iia.ie/dtn

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Competition Day 2: The Tools to Digitise the Nation

May 18, 2010 · Posted in Congress 2010, Digitise the Nation · Comment 

Congratulations to Aileen Roe who won yesterday’s Digitise the Nation Gadget-a-Day Competition. We will have prizes available all week, so make sure you enter each day.

Digitise the Nation Competition

Tuesday’s prize is a Microsoft Gaming Keyboard and Mouse and if you want to be the lucky winner, go to the Digitise the Nation Competition Page and answer the simple question. Today’s winner will be announced tomorrow, just in time for Competition Day Three.

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Competition: The Tools to Digitise the Nation

May 17, 2010 · Posted in Congress 2010, Digitise the Nation · Comment 

In order to help you Digitise the Nation, Microsoft are handing you the tools you need to do it. Each day of the Digitise the Nation week, the IIA and Silicon Republic will have a new prize to giveaway. All you have to do is answer the question to be in with a chance to win.

Digitise the Nation Competition

Monday’s prize is a Microsoft Gaming Keyboard and Mouse and if you want to be the lucky winner, go to the Digitise the Nation Competition Page and answer the simple question. Today’s winner will be announced tomorrow, just in time for Competition Day Two.

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Is your business model under threat?

May 17, 2010 · Posted in Guest Blogger, Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

(Guest Post: Paul Browne is a Development Advisor at Enterprise Ireland, working with  Irish Software companies to increase exports, and export led jobs. A key area is Cloud and Software as a Service)

While the IIA is busy digitizing the nation this week, let’s roll back 25 years when a previous digital revolution was lapping our shores. Readers of a certain age will instantly recognize the picture of WordStar, doing roughly what Microsoft Word does today. I say ‘roughly’ as WordStar belonged to an era without touchscreen or Mice, and where users had to had to use ‘ctrl-s’ and ‘ctrl-d’ to move right and left. While WordStar users understood copy and paste to mean actual glue and scissors, it was so dominant that even as a business studies student in the ‘90s, we were expected to pass an exam in its use.

Wordstar

So why do you now (most likely) use Microsoft Word instead ? The answer is Windows 3.1. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t even the first computer to use a mouse – but Windows  was a revolution for mainstream computers. While there was (and still is) a version of Wordstar for Windows, when the dust had settled MS Word had came out on top.

Windows 3.1

Right now another revolution is happening as computing moves from your desktop to Cloud Services delivered over the internet. This time the revolution is bigger; Computers are more widespread, other devices (such as Mobile, iPads and Netbooks) are hooked up to internet, and the revolution will transform more sectors of the economy. It would be a pity if we digitized the nation, only to leave traditional software companies behind on the desktop.

The IIA Cloud paper shows  as many opportunities as threats in this Software as a Service (SaaS) revolution.  As a key driver of Exports, and export led jobs, Enterprise Ireland wants to help software companies to seize the opportunities. In the next part of the it’s ongoing SaaS activities (including the well regarded SaaS transition programme)  Enterprise Ireland has two upcoming events to help Irish Software Companies;

  • On May 19th, Companies can learn about how their business model needs to react to implement software as a service (Event: The Commercial Realities of Sofware as a Service).  Speakers include John Appleby of SaasPoint,  Gerry O’Connor of Zarion ,  Philip O’Doherty of eSpatial and   Charles Cameron of  Encore Ventures.
  • On June 16th, it’s the turn of the Mananged Services (Event: Managed Services and the Cloud). Alongside speakers from Finance and PA Consulting, with be  Gerry Power,  Chair of the IIA’s cloud working group.

For more details of these, and future events to avoid your company losing out on the transition,  sign up for Enterprise Ireland’s  www.BestConnected.ie blog.


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Digitise the Nation with BlackrockVillage.ie and StreamMuseum

May 14, 2010 · Posted in Digitise the Nation · 1 Comment 

Dundalk StreamingBlackrockVillage.ie, DundalkStreaming.com and The County Museum, Dundalk have announced details of a fresh approach to Museums in Ireland.  Starting last month and over the course of seven weeks one hour show will feature and discuss aspects of life and work in Dundalk during the 20th century.  The shows will be focus in the main on what life was like to work in many of the industries of the area including brewing, , shoe manufacture and tobacco; other areas of life at the time will be discussed including the role and nature of education and entertainment.

Hosted by Harry Lee, the show will feature guests with first hand experience of working in these industries and will provide an entertaining and informative glance at life in the 20th Century.  According to Harry “I believe that internet radio is the future and that this is a great way of making history interesting and relevant to a new generation.  We’re hoping to generate an atmosphere of a fireside conversation, making it an enjoyable experience for our guests and, of course, our listeners.”

The programme will be designed to assist schools with respect to local history studies with the preparation of a specialised worksheet dealing with each theme over the course of the broadcasts.  These worksheets will feature photographs of the activity being discussed and will provide a unique insight into the dramatic changes in life here over the course of a lifetime.  These workbooks will be available to download from the Museum’s website.

The project’s technical adviser, Jason McGee, is looking forward to Digitising the Nation on Monday 17th May with a live internet radio stream from The County Musem, at 1.30pm, looking at Tobacco and Cigarette Manufacture as part of the Museum’s exhibits.

“This is an innovative technology that hasn’t been used before.  The younger generations are well used to using computers to find information so why not use the internet to provide a history lesson?”

More information about the content and the project may be had by contacting Brian Walsh at 042 9327056, or by checking out www.dundalkstreaming.com.

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Digitising the Nation with Kavaleer Animations

May 14, 2010 · Posted in Digitise the Nation · 1 Comment 

KavaleerKavaleer (award winning digital animation business based in Digital Hub) will be showing St. Audeons National School school students how digital art is created; sharing with the children how cartoons are made and inspiring the next generation of Brown Bag Productions and Oscar winning “Avatar” creators.

Date: Friday the 21st of May

Time: 3hours in the morning.

Class Content:

- An Introduction to Animation and the Animation process.

- Drawing Characters and looking at facial expressions.

- Using facial expressions to tell story.

- Drawing Storyboards

- Animating Workshop, using Freeware Programme ‘Pencil’

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- Conclusions and possibilities for the children.

It’s going to be a wonderful and exciting day for everyone involved.

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