The Bible had a typo – it should have read: The geek shall inherit the Earth. Yes, the future is online, and Ireland is making a comeback. Just as online is a parallel World, we now have a parallel economy: our emerging digital sector. Prosperity has launched a new ezine that we hope will chronicle the evolution of this sector – one that will keep our readers informed of trends, expansion and employment news. We’re sending you this ezine as you are registered to our database, but if you don’t wish to receive any further copies, please do click on our unsubscribe link.
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New year starts with new job creations
A week into an unsure new year, the news that 15 new jobs are to be created in 2010 by an Irish software company, is more than welcome. TerminalFour, a leading web content management company, definitely timed the announcement of the €1.6m of equity funding it has secured, which will fund the new positions well. The company currently employs 35 people and has its European headquarters in Amiens Street in Dublin. The new investment will see TerminalFour realise plans to increase its employee numbers from 35 to 50. These new positions will be across a number of areas including sales, pre-sales and customer service jobs in its Irish headquarters. Read more... Appetite for construction
Fancy yourself as a bit of an app developer? Think there are too many iPhone applications and app developers to deal with? Believe that Google’s new Nexus One phone will be an iPhone killer? Maybe it’s time to think back to the phone manufacturer responsible for filling every household in Ireland with 10 or 15 of their phone chargers. Yes, we’re talking about Nokia. Nokia is holding a developer open day tomorrow, Wednesday, 13 January 2010, in Dublin. The Ovi Developer Open Day is sponsored by Forum Nokia and Nokia Ireland and invites developers, bloggers and other content creators along to learn about Ovi Store opportunities – Ovi being the name of its Nokia-specific application store.. Read more...
To Twitter or not to Twitter, that is the interview question
So, you either haven’t got the hang of Twitter, or you’re highly addicted to it and your heart sinks when the interviewer asks, do you tweet? It may seem like a better option to say you’re not on Twitter at all, rather than admit you’re on it all day every day, one might think. Well, think again, Sky News actually made the news itself recently with the revelation it has installed a Twitter application, Tweetdeck on all journalists’ computers. Julian March, executive producer, Sky News Online, told Journalism.co.uk that they were in the process of embedding social media throughout their whole team rather than leaving it to one person. Read more...
How influential are you on Twitter
Whether or not you regard yourself as a member of the Twitterati or are just embarking on your Twitter journey, it may be worthwhile checking out how you match up against others on Tweetlevel.com. Considering recruiters research candidates online through social media, seeing how effective somebody is on Twitter may become more important – for any job role. Tweetlevel is a new free measurement tool that calculates someone’s importance on Twitter and has been developed by Edelman, one of the world’s leading PR agencies. It uses a unique algorithm which takes into account the quality and quantity of someone’s tweets, how engaged and trusted a tweeter is, as well as how popular they are.. Read more...
Good news Friday in the diary for 2010
Some people hate Mondays, right? Well even if Prosperity got you your job and you can’t wait to get out of bed, Monday, 25 January, 2010 could be different. “Blue Monday” has been calculated as the most depressing day of the year for employees everywhere by Dr Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University. Whether or not there is any truth in the matter, staff in marketing, communications and public relations roles in companies all around Ireland can try to brighten up the preceding weekend by submitting good news stories to media organisations on Good News Friday, Friday, 22 January, 2010. Good News Friday has been established by Mediacontact.ie to combat the current doom and gloom and get some positivity into the media.. Read more...
Prosperity is also inviting businesses to send in their good news directly to Elaine@prosperity.ie Don’t have any good news right now? The e-zine will be published twice a month, so please feel free to submit stories by email to e-zine editor, Elaine Larkin.Stories should be relevant to the Irish digital media economy, with a particular emphasis on expansion and development of the sector.
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A week into an unsure new year, the news that 15 new jobs are to be created in 2010 by an Irish software company, is more than welcome.
Fancy yourself as a bit of an app developer? Think there are too many iPhone applications and app developers to deal with? Believe that Google’s new Nexus One phone will be an iPhone killer?
So, you either haven’t got the hang of Twitter, or you’re highly addicted to it and your heart sinks when the interviewer asks, do you tweet? It may seem like a better option to say you’re not on Twitter at all, rather than admit you’re on it all day every day, one might think. Well, think again, Sky News actually made the news itself recently with the revelation it has installed a Twitter application, Tweetdeck on all journalists’ computers.
Whether or not you regard yourself as a member of the Twitterati or are just embarking on your Twitter journey, it may be worthwhile checking out how you match up against others on Tweetlevel.com.
Some people hate Mondays, right? Well even if Prosperity got you your job and you can’t wait to get out of bed, Monday, 25 January, 2010 could be different. “Blue Monday” has been calculated as the most depressing day of the year for employees everywhere by Dr Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University.
