Let’s get digital, digital

April 1, 2011 · Posted in Digitise the Nation · Comment 

Are you noticing a song-y theme in my posts today? This is just a quick post to point you in the direction of Digitise the Nation, a week-long awareness campaign promoted by the IIA but run by you!

Here in the Irish Internet Association we believe being online and confident about what you are doing is a key step to personal and professional growth. We developed Digitise the Nation to bridge the gap between the digital natives and, well, the digital tourists.

So pop on over to Digitise the Nation to find out what it’s all about and how you can get involved.

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Feedback Friday 2: Puddleducks take the plunge

February 6, 2009 · Posted in Feedback Friday · 13 Comments 

puddle-ducks-outdoor-clothi2Last week we kicked off the Feedback Friday feature with Pressieport.ie. I don’t mind telling you that the post was the most popular on this blog in the last month and the feedback Fred Schelbaum received was second to none. Not long after the post went live I got an email from Fred with the subject line, “WOW!” so he was very happy too. So well done to all the commenters and Twitterers who helped out.

This week our featured site for Feedback Friday is Puddleducks. Aedan Ryan, director of Puddleducks, sent me the following to help you fabulous feedbackers:

PuddleDucks is an online retailer of outdoor clothing clothes for children and adults. Our best selling items are the waterproof dungarees, jackets and suits for younger children.

What I would like to achieve from Feedback Friday is to get feedback and make improvements to our Home Page so we can try to reduce the bounce rate from visitors to the site.

Therefore I’d appreciate feedback on some of the following:

  • initial impression of our Home Page
  • layout of the Home Page
  • is it easy to know how to progress from the home page to start shopping on the site?
  • are there any other design improvements we could make to the home page or the product pages?
  • any other ideas on how to make shopping easier or encourage visitors to purchase

We’d also like to offer a 10% discount to all readers for any purchases until Sunday 8th Feb. Just use the discount coupon “iia12″. Please note that you need to be registered as a user on the site before you can redeem the coupon.

Thanks very much in advance for your feedback.

Again please keep the guidelines in mind when giving feedback and most of all, thanks very much!

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Link me, link me, say that you’ll link me

November 20, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 3 Comments 

The way some people come from GAA or rugby families, I come from a jazz family. I have no strong feelings about this particular style of music myself but I do recall a game the jazz nerds used to play late at night after a long jam (man). Basically you would think of titles of jazz standards that included the word love and substitute the word love with lunch. Much hilarity ensued – I did say they were jazz NERDS.

Hence the title above with a bit of a pop twist when I was thinking about LinkedIn this week. Krishna De who has been presenting at some of our events this year, recently added an item to IIA.ie which I think might be a first for Ireland. Krishna is running a LinkedIn for Business Masterclass as part of Dublin City Enterprise week tomorrow.* Now considering Krishna has over 500 contacts on LinkedIn and that I recently joined her on her PodCampIreland podcast to talk with her about LinkedIn’s new applications suggests to me that here is a woman who (a) knows what she is doing and (b) continues to find out at much as she can about the online tools she is using. I would say that an afternoon in Dublin City Enterprise Board, O’Connell Bridge House and €30.00 would be well spent and you might well see me there.

You might see me there because, mea culpa, I am a LinkedIn newbie. It was never terribly high on my list of must-use sites until recently, partly because of the nature of the work I was doing prior to my role in the IIA. Recently I had a revelation though when one of our members contacted me looking to make a connection with another member company. I had a quick think and it suddenly occurred to me that the quickest way to do this was through LinkedIn. So hopefully those two IIA members will make connections that may have otherwise been more complicated to make.

With this in mind I have set up a group on LinkedIn Group for IIA members so I hope you will join us there soon. If there is a particular IIA member that you would like an introduction to please do not hesitate to ask me – that’s what I’m here for!

* And on a blowing our own trumpet note Krishna told me that within half an hour of posting that item on the IIA website she had one registration who referenced IIA.ie as their referral point. Lesson learned: people who like jazz really are nerds. No no no! Get posting your information to the IIA website. Update your profile. Add your RSS. Is that your old logo? Yikes! Change it. Tell us about your new appointments and post your vacancies – it’s all happening on IIA.ie

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