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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: Thoughts on a Way Forward for Ireland
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Thoughts on a Way Forward for Ireland. In a rare act of unity all our political parties are looking into the same hole at the moment (aka the national debt). But they are about to be hit by a truck belonging to Rehn Transport (aka the European Commission). When the dust clears hopefully somebody will listen to my ideas. If not I'll just have to send my CV to the IMF. Meanwhile here are my thoughts on a way forward for Ireland. 1 Who are the new patriots? 3 The campaign trail: Deliver an Obama-style campa...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: A Week of Tweets Hacks Texts & Rights
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A Week of Tweets Hacks Texts and Rights. Today's Marian Finucane radio show was very relevant to my proposal to elevate digital to a higher level of national importance. Guests included Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan and Helen Shaw of Athena Media. In relation to the potential extradition of the two Irish hackers Pat Rabbitte quipped “we can’t afford to be losing talent like that” - if only he felt the same way about me - while Helen Shaw said th...Despite assuran...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: Protect Your Webutation
http://www.digitigm.com/2010/08/dont-damage-your-webutation.html
I was talking on the phone recently to somebody in a bank about how they could best get a document to me. I was asked "Do you use e-mail? I've been thinking about this ever since. Why would anyone ask me such a thing? Do I have a choice? Is it still unusual for someone to use e-mail? Which may explain why I rarely get the business. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Try the Digital Capability Survey! 1,300 people including stakeholders, decision makers and citizens attended this flagship event in Brusse...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: Developing Ireland's Digital Ecosystem
http://www.digitigm.com/2011/07/developing-irelands-digital-ecosystem.html
Developing Ireland's Digital Ecosystem. Organisations need help to improve their digital capability on an enterprise-wide basis. This can scale to create a digital ecosystem, improving Ireland's digital competency. This inspired me to develop the Digital Capability Framework. The National Standards Authority of Ireland carried out a search on my behalf and confirmed that nothing similar exists in Ireland or Europe. I have been building awareness of digital capability for the last year. Despite internatio...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: Twitter Addiction is for the Birds
http://www.digitigm.com/2011/02/twitter-addiction-is-for-birds.html
Twitter Addiction is for the Birds. I love Twitter, I love my friends on Twitter, and I write about Twitter often. Twitter is a huge part of my life, it is my happy place, and it’s full of positive people who send positive tweets.". Crackbird, a new restaurant in Dublin. Is going to give up to 30 free meals a day to people who Tweet their booking. That's a free meal for typing less than 140 characters! I've heard of "will work for food" but "will Tweet for food"? Twitter is valued at $15bn but had neglig...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: Increasing Digital Capability in Business
http://www.digitigm.com/2010/12/increasing-digital-capability-in.html
Increasing Digital Capability in Business. Recent events concerning the Irish economy have brought into question our ability to determine our own future. But I believe that increasing the digital capability of our indigenous businesses can help to ensure that we have one. The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) responded by issuing a statement. Innovation Ireland, the report. Unless you’re a viral marketing agency or a digital native creating computer games, you may not need intergala...
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Digitigm | Online Strategies and Digital Innovation: DUBLINKED Dublin's Open Data Platform
http://www.digitigm.com/2012/02/dublinked-open-data-platform-for.html
DUBLINKED Dublin's Open Data Platform. Dublinked.ie is the first regional open data platform in Ireland, recently launched by partners in the four Dublin Local Authorities and NUI Maynooth with technology provided by IBM. Open access to government owned data is set to revolutionise how entrepreneurs convert raw data into valuable digital products and services. Dublin’s unique physical, social and economic infrastructure and geography is a very attractive test bed for new products and services. And I'm ba...