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
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
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
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
Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced that a deal just signed with ‘3′ would mean 100% broadband coverage in all of Ireland. While areas of the country like Beara are covered by patchy services provided by independent operators providing wireless connection a comprehensive and reliable wired service has been a long time Full Article
Image by inju via Flickr As part of my work as a freelance writer I’m regularly commissioned to write short editorial articles for newspaper advertising features. I recently agreed to write a 500 word piece on the importance of a professional web presence for SME’s. Now, the rates quoted by the newspaper for advertising alongside this feature Full Article
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
The Irish Blog Awards take place in Cork on 21st February 2009. Nominations are now open, so if you’ve read a blog you’ve admired over the last year, why not head on over and nominate your favourite Irish blogs in their respective categories. Don’t put it off though… nominations close at 6pm on the 14th January. If Full Article
Image via Wikipedia For many SOHO Solo’s the web plays an important part in marketing their businesses. Their website is a fundamental part of their operation — the hub of their online marketing endeavours and one of their main opportunities to attract and engage with customers who are often geographically remote. If you’re Full Article
