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Top 20 Startup Ecosystems: RoW 20 – Ireland 0 27 Nov 2012 | 02:49 am
Can Ireland make it as a world-leading ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation? We would like to think so. Right? However, according to Startup Genome the answer is NO. This week they launched t...
Twitter Privacy Changes: Behavioural Tracking 20 May 2012 | 02:38 am
Users of Twitter around the globe have been receiving emails from Twitter HQ informing them of new features being released. One important feature mentioned allows Twitter to target users with content ...
A Year in the Sun 1 May 2012 | 10:47 pm
It has been one year since I arrived in sunny Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain with my family to start a new chapter in the adventure. And what a year it has been. It is impossible to represent ...
How One Company Created a Global e-Learning Community 9 Jun 2011 | 07:02 pm
I’ve recently taken up a role in Gibraltar with a company that has created a successful global e-learning community within the iGaming sector. In the month since I started I have learned more about th...
The Six Pillars of Social Influence 25 Apr 2011 | 10:13 pm
All of this social interaction on the web today really supports consumers in each of their purchase or engagement decisions. We talk about social commerce as if it were something new. There has always...
Create Compelling Experiences 12 Apr 2011 | 07:39 am
Jonathan Drori, the man who led the effort to create bbc.co.uk, was in Dublin recently talking about how digital is changing the way educators must interact with students and how businesses could inte...
Let Facebook Be Your Community Dumb Pipe 28 Mar 2011 | 09:30 am
As the major social networks, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, continue on trajectories of seemingly unstoppable growth, MySpace is facing rapid extinction. This week LinkedIn announced that it had rea...
Insights from Mashable’s Ben Parr and others at Dublin Web Summit 9 Mar 2011 | 09:49 am
I’m here at the Dublin Web Summit jotting down some insights from interesting speakers on how businesses can leverage the web to succeed. Thought I’d share them; Your customer is the best source of n...
Online Commerce is Already Social 6 Mar 2011 | 11:52 pm
I was preparing a lecture recently for a postgrad course at the Digital Marketing Institute and was struck by the data on one of the charts I had compiled. The chart was painting a picture of the rela...
7 Ways Mobile Commerce Will Impact Consumers 20 Feb 2011 | 06:26 am
As the Mobile World Congress 2011 draws to a close in Barcelona it is timely to have a look at the impact that mobile commerce will have on consumers over the coming months and years; 1. Smartphones ...
