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Hiring and firing, the social media way
The growing role social media is playing in the hiring and firing process has been in the limelight in a number of ways. One online status update that raised eyebrows was from a CEO who broadcast his resignation publicly via Twitter. Jonathan Schwartz had been the chief executive of Sun Microsystems before it was taken over by Oracle at the end of January in a USD$7.4 billion deal. When the Oracle deal was finalised its CEO was reported in the New York Times as saying that he expected Schwartz to resign. Schwartz did resign, in quite a nouveau and public fashion, with a haiku-styled tweet: “Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more.” His action made headlines and has paved the way for others to follow suit.. Read more...
2010: Year of digital media conferences
Dublin is to get a selection of digital media-related conferences over coming months to keep professionals in the sector up to date. In two weeks’ time, on Wednesday, March 3, it’s back to college for those who want to hear about maximising business potential online. University College Dublin (UCD) is the location for the Digital Landscapes conference. In April, the Croke Park conference centre will be the location for the Media 2020: A Vision for the Future which will discuss the key trends in the media for the next five years. These follow the hugely successful Dublin Web Summit, which took place in early February featuring keynote addresses by Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, the world's largest classified listings website and Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress which powers over 202 million websites worldwide. The Dublin Web Summit also featured talks by Chris Horn, co-founder and former CEO of Iona Technologies, and Ben Hammersley, Wired Magazine's Editor-at-Large. .. Read more...
Virtual currency behind gaming job creation
Bringing potatoes to Ireland may sound like bringing coal to Newcastle in terms of job creation here. However, more than 100 jobs are to be created in Dublin thanks to the success of a virtual currency called gPotato and used by players of free online games published by the Digital Hub-based Gala Networks Europe. The company which started in 2006 with a handful employees in Ireland currently employs 90 in Dublin and is to more than double in size, creating 103 jobs over a three-year period in Dublin city centre. Read more...
Inexpensive and free tools for the digital media trade
Whether social media is part of your official job description, something that’s landed on your desk in the office because everybody else is too nervous about it, or it’s something you’d like to do professionally, there’s nothing like some proper guidance. Online PR and social media company, Simply Zesty had served up just that in the form of a free e-book to help people understand social media.Read more...
Organisations reveal planned IT spend for 2010
Contract workers who fall under the category of IT contractors may need to look into seeking permanent positions results from an Irish Computer Society (ICS) survey come to pass. A survey completed by the ICS in late 2009 found that half of respondents expected their 2010 IT budgets to be lower than the 2009 spend on IT. Respondents were mainly from the private sector in both IT and non-IT industries and the public sector. 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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The growing role social media is playing in the hiring and firing process has been in the limelight in a number of ways.
Dublin is to get a selection of digital media-related conferences over coming months to keep professionals in the sector up to date.
Bringing potatoes to Ireland may sound like bringing coal to Newcastle in terms of job creation here.
Whether social media is part of your official job description, something that’s landed on your desk in the office because everybody else is too nervous about it, or it’s something you’d like to do professionally, there’s nothing like some proper guidance.
Contract workers who fall under the category of IT contractors may need to look into seeking permanent positions results from an Irish Computer Society (ICS) survey come to pass.
