The next Soho Connect West Cork meeting will take place Wednesday, 9th September 2009, at 12:30pm, at the Kingfisher Bar of the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery. The meeting format will be informal as usual but the focus will be on the future direction of the group and the potential of our networks. Admission free. Refreshments Full Article

Have you been wondering if you should be on Twitter or how you can use Facebook to promote you business? There are still places left for Friday's workshop "Hands On: Your Own Site PR Campaign". Full Article

SohoSolo member Ann Donnelly is offering a series of "Hands On" Online Marketing Workshops, starting with "Hands On: Your Own Blog" on 3rd July 2009. Full Article

Image via CrunchBase This just in via Twitter. Award winning web designer and internet marketer Sabrina Dent and online marketing specialist Martina Skelly of Activate have teamed up to offer a crash course in digital marketing for small businesses. The two half day sessions take place in Cork on the 12th June, and look ideal for Full Article

This arrived in my inbox this morning from a LinkedIn group I belong to called 121 Marketing, which recently started up in Dublin and has now added a Cork group. They meet up for informal networking on the first Wednesday of every month. Gatherings are free, and open to all, and it could be a Full Article

The first West Cork Tweet Up takes place Friday 27th March, 8pm, at the Courtyard Bar in Clonakilty. All are welcome - users of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, blogging, etc. Even if you are just thinking about using any of these social networking tools. Full Article

This press release was issued to local media organisations earlier this week in the wake of the SOHO Solo conference last Friday (CJ). Lord David Puttnam, the renowned film producer and entrepreneur, has called on the Irish Government to take urgent action to remedy woeful broadband connectivity in rural areas across the country. He pointed to Full Article

SOHO Solo’s don’t do recession. Or rather, they don’t embrace the collective doom and gloom that’s gripping the nation at the moment. That was the overriding impression following the SOHO Solo conference “Reinventing Oneself in these Challenging Times” in Kinsale last Friday. Photographs and audio files from the Full Article

Image via Wikipedia Friday is fast approaching, and if you want to attend the SOHO Solo conference “Reinventing Oneself in These Challenging Times” to hear what Lord David Puttnam and a host of interesting speakers have to say on the topic of reinvention and innovation, not to mention a selection of not-to-be-missed case studies, Full Article

“Reinventing oneself in challenging times…” Image via Wikipedia When: Friday 20th February from 10am – 2pm Where: Kinsale Yacht Club, Kinsale, Co.Cork, Ireland Keynote address from David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate-renowned film producer of The Mission, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express etc Who should attend? Entrepreneurs, Full Article