Some time ago the idea of outvesting was born out of discussions on Twitter and some Irish blogs. The concept was simple; donors chip in 50 euro each and when a total of 5000 euro has been reached the donors vote on which start-up this money should be given to (on a no strings attached basis). Short, sharp & simple.
Today the results of the first Outvesting round ware announced and while I am delighted that WE CAME SECOND I am even more delighted by the fact that the fantastic KildareStreet won. Go have a look at KildareStreet. It’s a fantastic and extremely worthwhile project giving everyone a direct insight in what and how much (or little) every person in our government is doing. While there are a whole bunch of people involved in the project it is mainly being driven by John Handelaar who is a bit of an enigma. Anyway, go check them out and give them all the help and support you can!
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.
