Maybe the right side and left side of the brain just won’t get along. Or maybe the training is all wrong. Over at The Irish Economy blog, the Irish Times newspaper drew flak for clumsy, lazy or clueless reporting of tax information released by the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland’s tax authorities. The blog post is here. [...]
08.30.10 | Economics, Media, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Back in July, I did a short piece on an innovative approach taken by Boardmatch Ireland to pair knowledgeable professionals with not-for-profit organizations needing their skills. Recently, I came across another cool idea. This time, it is a 24-hour, web-design competition between three teams for three worthy causes. “Basically, Scrapheap Challenge for charity with websites,” [...]
08.26.10 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Imagine a sales force so eager that the top guy was worried about his customers getting buried in a scrum. Sounds like a good thing, right? To Dr. Neil Boyle, Managing Director of Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, Ireland, it wasn’t. It was a cause for concern — and a sign that his organization was ready [...]
08.24.10 | Management, Organisation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Trust is like virginity, Cormac Tobin said. “You can only lose it once.” Tobin, who began his career in retail at age 13 under Fergal Quinn, told of how trust is crucial both between himself and staff, and between their customers and Unicare. Maintaining these relationships has been important in the current climate, he said. [...]
08.23.10 | Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
At the risk of stating the obvious, he had to say it: Kids are different than adults. Then, shortly after saying that, he had to use “the cheesy ‘kids are our future’ quote.” Recounting how IQ Content built an educational website for children between six and 18 years old, Laurence Veale (@laurenceveale), told of how [...]
08.18.10 | Education, Technology | John P. Muldoon
I came across the video above on the Innovation Daily recently. But I was less interested in the bicycle than how it tied in with comments made by Dermot Daly (@dermdaly) and Keith Maycock (@keithmaycock) of at the Dotconf recently. Daly, of Tapadoo, talked of how the mobile web has arrived (video here). An early [...]
08.17.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
On the same day I blogged about Storyful, I caught up later with an old friend. We are both employed full time in tech but are also interested in media — he makes films — and I like journalism and new media. We met for a few drinks, and in between solving the country’s problems, [...]
08.12.10 | Education, Innovation, Media, Personal Effectiveness, Technology | John P. Muldoon
After a lot of development and a little mystery, the covers are beginning to slip off Jolitics, a new political website. Established by Bebo founder Michael Birch, Jolitics is currently being tested in alpha in Ireland. Site membership of this innovative approach to political discussion is by invitation for now, but I managed to snag [...]
08.9.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Media, Politics, Technology | John P. Muldoon
A quick plug for the Career Boot Camp being organized by the National College of Ireland. It is free of charge, and there is no pre-registration. A number of workshops and talks have been planned for the week. These include mock interviews, CV (resumé) appraisal, how to use recruitment agencies effectively, what HR managers are [...]
08.5.10 | Education, Personal Effectiveness | John P. Muldoon
A couple of interesting and innovative websites are being unleashed on an unwitting Irish public this summer. Although British and based in Silicon Valley, Bebo founder Michael Birch has just started doing early tests of Jolitics in Ireland. You can read more about that here. But there is another site, Storyful, that marries two subjects [...]
08.4.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Media, Technology | John P. Muldoon
