After the last seminar we had some nice goodies left over.
Microsoft, who we partner with through their Bizspark programme, had sent us some software as sponsorship (Office Ultimate 2007, Windows 7 Release Candidate, Windows Vista Ultimate, Halo3 for Xbox 360 & PGR4 for xbox 360).
We also have a few books written by Nora Klaver who recently gave a presentation during the Limerick Open Coffee Club. The book is titled “Mayday, asking for help in times of need“. Nora has given me 2 copies of her book to give away.
So how can you win?
Simple; leave a comment below illustrating a recent business “success story”. Something that happened to you recently or that you have heard about that will show us that it’s not all doom and gloom. This could be from securing a great order to how you using social media has benefited you in your business. No restrictions, no holds barred. Give it to me the way you experienced it!
As I have several prizes I will choose one winning comment every day this week, however I “demand” at least 5 comments per day before I will draw a winner. This so there will be no winner by default.
As promised in the run up to last Saturdays’ “Blogging & Social Media for Business” seminar on Limerick we are giving away 2 nights b&b for 2 people in the fabulous Absolute Hotel in Limerick.
I threw the names of all people who attended in a hat this morning and had an independent person pull out one name.
Last Saturdays “Blogging & Social Media for Business” was great success!
18 people showed up on the day which made the group managable and created lots of interaction and discussion. Surprisingly enough there were very few participants from the Limerick area and we had people from all over the country.
The facilities of the Absolute Hotel were as always superb with plenty of good strong coffee. After a short opening word by myself Krishna De kicked of the day. As expected Krishna gave a fantastic, informative and engaging presentation covering subjects such as Linkedin, Facebook and online networking in general. She explained clearly to everyone what the posibilities, benefits and options of online networking are.
Krishna was followed by Campbell Scott. Campbell is the CEO of IGOpeople Irelands’ first and premier online network. Campbell gave a good insight in the thoughts behind IGOpeople, how it works, who it’s for and what plans they have. Campbell’s presentation can be found here.
After Cambpell it was the turn for Fred Caballero from Channelship. Fred is a specialist in video blogging and gave everyone an insight in the do’s & dont’s of video blogging. Entertaining details was that his presentation was the most filmed one during the seminar. At one point there were cameras recording the presentation.
Next it was time for a lunch break. As was to expected the chefs in the Absolute Hotel had prepared an excellent meal.
With everyone refreshed was time for the enigmatic Bernie Goldbach. Bernie gave a a deep insight into the workings and benefits of Twitter. His talk was as entertaining as it was informative as he admitted to having multiple Twitter accounts and frequently talks to himself through them.
Last up was Peter Donegan of Donegan Landscaping. Peter was able to show how a “non-techie” business can benefit from using an online medium such as blogging (and twitter). Peter started his talk with a newly made 3 minute video summarising the last 2 .5 years of his life.
He really managed to engage the audience by showing how social media worked for his business but also emphasised the pitfalls and risks involved by creating an online presence.
We ended the day with a Q&A session and by setting a few people up with their own Twitter accounts. This was followed by drinks in the Absolute bar (which lasted well into the night). It became clear from comments made by people attending and speaking that this was a very succesfull event and I will definetly be organising more events in the near future.
There was also a lot of tweeting going on during the event and as we were using the hash-tag “greenhousesocial” these tweets can be followed here.
I will also over the next few days post up more content such as presentations, pictures and video footage on the site so keep checking back.
You can find the required form by clicking on the “Apply” link in the top navigation bar.
The process is outlined on the application page but just to make matters clear again, we do *not* require big lengthy business plans or 5-year financial forecasts. If you have these please do submit them but we will give as much credibility to them as to a person who just submits an outline of an idea.
Remember it’s about who *you* are and how good your idea is, NOT about how well you can type, how flashy your Powerpoint presentation is or how many pages you have typed up…
