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Why I Love Mondays Trish Murphy is Group Sales Manager at Hot Press which she joined in May 2010.
Company: I currently work for Hot Press, the bi-weekly magazine with an audited circulation of 19,387 and has been going for over 33 years. We also publish the Hot Press Yearbook which is known as the bible of the entertainment industry and Enterprise Magazine, the onboard magazine for the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise train and we also host the Music Show in the RDS every October.
Job description: Responsible for the generation of revenue across all the titles and developing new relationships with clients.
Creative and technology companies based in Ireland were at the centre of job creation announcements over the last week. The twice Oscar-nominated animation studio Brown Bag Films has said it will create 14 jobs on foot of a new Disney contract to produce a new animated series for preschoolers. Brown Bag Films will produce the series in association with Disney Channel. Beginning in 2011, "Doc McStuffins" will premiere on the soon to be branded Disney Junior blocks on Disney Channel, and Disney Junior channels around the world. Brown Bag Films currently employs 50 people in Dublin. Linking up with LinkedIn LinkedIn, the social network used by millions of professionals worldwide, has also announced that it is to begin recruiting 35 finance professionals at its international headquarters in Dublin. Read more...
Mixing of People, Ideas and Resources required for success Networks are essential to drive and facilitate innovation and to develop a dynamic and indigenous knowledge-based economy on the island of Ireland, a conference has heard. The key message delivered by business, industry and academic leaders who took part in InterTradeIreland’s 2010 All-island Innovation Conference was that building collaborative networks is essential to develop Ireland as an innovation island. At the opening of the conference Dr Pat Frain, Director, NovaUCD said, “The development and expansion of innovation networks have a major role to play in economic renewal on the island of Ireland and in particular in developing Ireland’s emergence as an innovation island.” Read more...
Study eyeballs Facebook
A new Facebook eye-tracking study will give companies that wish to make an impact on Facebook food for thought. Mulley Communications worked with the Centre for Research and Innovation in Learning and Teaching at National College of Ireland (NCI) on an eye-tracking test to see what Irish people pay attention to when using Facebook. Using usability technology in NCI’s National e-Learning Laboratory researchers watched the eye movements of participants as they looked at their Facebook Newswalls, Profiles and Business Pages. One of the things that any Facebook page admin for a business will wonder is how to get more fans – or people to ‘Like’ a page. Read more...
Web solution for ringing problem
Is the Oxegen music festival, the remainder of the World Cup or the All Ireland at the top of your social life to-do list over the coming weeks? If so, it may be time to turn to the web for some professional help if loud music, vuvuzelas, or the roar of the crowd in Croke Park give you that annoying ringing in your ears. An online therapy which alleviates temporary tinnitus or ‘ringing in the ears’ which is caused by exposure to loud environments, is available from an Irish company, Restored Hearing. People who listen to their MP3 players through headphones can also benefit from the web-based therapy. Read more...
Prosperity is also inviting businesses to send in their good news directly to Elaine@prosperity.ie Don’t have any good news right now? The e-zine will be published twice a month, so please feel free to submit stories by email to e-zine editor, Elaine Larkin.Stories should be relevant to the Irish digital media economy, with a particular emphasis on expansion and development of the sector.
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Trish Murphy is Group Sales Manager at Hot Press which she joined in May 2010.
Creative and technology companies based in Ireland were at the centre of job creation announcements over the last week.
Networks are essential to drive and facilitate innovation and to develop a dynamic and indigenous knowledge-based economy on the island of Ireland, a conference has heard.
A new Facebook eye-tracking study will give companies that wish to make an impact on Facebook food for thought.
Is the Oxegen music festival, the remainder of the World Cup or the All Ireland at the top of your social life to-do list over the coming weeks? If so, it may be time to turn to the web for some professional help if loud music, vuvuzelas, or the roar of the crowd in Croke Park give you that annoying ringing in your ears.
