Paul Campbell is like a walking, talking Maslow’s Hierarchy. A “bona fide geek,” he exudes enthusiasm for his work: building empathic websites. A web developer from Dublin, Campbell was a founding member of Contrast.ie. (You can read more about their current work here), and is developer of Ketchup. He now works with Brian Flanagan at [...]
07.30.10 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
There still appears to be space for this web event this evening in Dublin. It is “part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups” for web heads in the area, and will be held in the Church Bar on Mary Street at 7 pm this evening. Short notice, I know, but I just stumbled across [...]
07.29.10 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Technology | John P. Muldoon
In another of her interesting posts on the Harvard Business Review site, Susan Cramm asks if outsourcing destroys IT innovation. In my most decisive opinion, I can safely say the the answer is Yes and No. In the Yes corner, an organization that outsources IT will lose any innovations that would have been dreamed up [...]
07.28.10 | Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
Your start-up is like a three-legged stool, Des Traynor told the dotconf recently. Traynor, whose firm www.contrast.ie works with numerous tech start-ups, cited the example of cutting-edge architecture such as the Seattle Public Library where architects, engineers and business people need to work closely together. Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, likened this approach [...]
07.25.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Just back from the dotconf, a free, one-day, web seminar to launch National College of Ireland’s new MSc in Web Technologies. There were lots of good speakers there, and there is plenty to talk about. However, one of the most intriguing aspects of the college’s approach to its new program is how they are building [...]
07.22.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
What do you need to do to separate the venture capitalist from a few hundred grand? They’re no fools, so it won’t be easy. Shay Garvey, a partner at Dublin-based Delta Partners, urged preparation. Speaking at the recent Dublin Web Summit, he said the first three minutes of a pitch are crucial. Garvey — whose [...]
07.14.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Personal Effectiveness, Technology | John P. Muldoon
There are many strains felt during a recession. People lose jobs, companies buckle and maybe fold. And charities notice a drop off in donations. Despite these pressures, people soldier on and still find ways to help the less fortunate. During Ireland’s recent, idiotic “boom,” it was common to hear the complaint that people had no [...]
07.13.10 | Entrepreneurship, Management, Personal Effectiveness | John P. Muldoon
This one is worth a short plug: The Irish Internet Association and the National College of Ireland will be hosting a free one-day conference on July 22 in Dublin. The line up looks pretty good so far. You can find all the details here. Image is a partial screen shot of the dotconf website and [...]
07.12.10 | Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
It’s all about buzz. But how do you do it? Is there a trick to making a video go viral? At the Dublin Web Summit recently, Paul Hayes of Beach Hut PR suggested building up a video by getting it banned in Britain and then shopping it around the States as “banned in the U.K.” [...]
07.7.10 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Put your customers second and you will get ahead faster. That’s always been the case in Ireland, right? Who could forget the scene below from the 2003 movie, Intermission? The scene is just 23 seconds long but sums up the experience of far too many Irish people in customer-service environments. I remember not knowing whether [...]
07.6.10 | Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
