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Has e-mail marketing had its day?

Has e-mail marketing had its day?

With people’s inboxes flooded by a relentless stream of spam it’s understandable that some predict the demise of e-mail marketing in the not too distant future. If you believe that e-mail marketing has had its hey-day then you’re in good company. While researching “Understanding Digital Marketing” I conducted Full Article

New Stuff Is A Cummin’

With all the chat recently in tech circles being about the next version of Windows (aka Windows 7) this week has seen the release of the latest version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 can be downloaded from Microsoft now and comes with a number of new features including: Accelerators – these were known as browser Full Article

Get The News

Get The News

Image by photopia / HiMY SYeD via Flickr These days there’s a flood of information available to us; so much so that it’s often difficult to keep up with it all even before you get onto the Internet! The Internet has such a wealth of data available that trying to get round all our favourite sites Full Article

Solo entrepreneurs need broadband in rural Ireland

Solo entrepreneurs need broadband in rural Ireland

Today I found these interesting quotes (below) . I feel they not only underline the fact that  people will be able to work effectively from remote parts of the country in the future but that the provision of real broadband infrastructure is going to be vital if you believe that the rate of travel costs Full Article

Online meeting… the aftermath

Online meeting… the aftermath

Last week (14/01/2009) SOHO Solo West Cork held it’s first ever online meeting. We chose the free online meeting service “DimDim” as the platform, and went through a series of tasks including a short presentation, desktop sharing / screen-casting, collaborative white-boarding, all using the public and private text chat and Voice over IP Full Article

Why is ‘technical’ seen as a by-word for ‘complicated’?

Why is ‘technical’ seen as a by-word for ‘complicated’?

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been working with information technology for over 24 years now, so in lots of ways I’m comfortable with it because I know what it can do. On the other hand, I’m also quite sceptical about the claims made for technology (especially software) since I also know what it can’t do. As someone Full Article