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Why I Love Mondays

Rachel Earley, Digital Creative Lead at Eighty:Twenty in Dublin

Company Eighty:Twenty is a an interactive communications agency with technological innovation at its core. Through innovation we cultivate our expertise in Social Influence Marketing, emerging media, creative design, analytics, technology and user experience. Essentially, we create experiences that build businesses. www.eightytwenty.ie

The job I have worked at Eighty:Twenty since March 2009. Originally employed as a Web designer and developer my role has developed and changed in unison with the developments in the digital world. I am responsible for the technological development of all our digital campaigns across a range of platforms such as Web, Flash and Application development. I am also responsible for seeking out emerging technologies and social experiences and finding ways to apply those to the digital identity of our brand campaigns Read more...


Digital Misfitz focus on building communities

What may be one of the last free events to attend on the digital calendar is taking place in Dublin next week.

Tuesday March 2nd at 6pm is the date for the next Digital Misfitz event: Building Communities for your Brand. Digital Misfitz is the brainchild of Suzanne FitzGerald of Moo Pictures. Digital Misfitz, FitzGerald explains, is an exclusive forum bringing together advertising industry and PR professionals and specialists working in the digital media sector by organising various events on topics surrounding digital technology and media.  Read more...


Biodegradable iPhone case turns over new jobs leaf

A biodegradable iPhone case which has been designed by Dublin-based company is to contribute to maintaining jobs in the north west of the country.

Confirmed orders for one million units of the Jivo LEAF could be contributing to saving a few jobs in Ireland where it is being manufactured and packaged. The JIVO Leaf was designed by Eva Grundy, design and marketing manager with TNS Distribution and JIVO Technology

The thinking process for the product started before Christmas, explains Grundy, and already a number of the products have been manufactured, taking just two minutes apiece. Read more...


Cúpla focail required to help Ireland’s only all-Irish chart-station

Raidió Rí-Rá, Ireland’s only all-Irish chart-station for young people, has put out a call for people with fluent Irish and a few hours to spare one morning a week in March 2010 to help get the word out about the station

Raidió Rí-Rá, which can be heard all year around online on www.rrr.ie, on all Nokia phones, and on iPhones with the latest application, will go onto the airwaves for the second year in a row as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. Seachtain na Gaeilge is a non-profit organisation, which promotes the use of Irish language and culture both at home and abroad within a two-week festival held in March every year. Read more...


New games masters for Dublin


A new masters in digital games is to be launched in Dublin this week at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival gaming forum – Controller Cinema – which will feature a keynote speech from Peter Molyneux, a legendary figure in the gaming world.

Dublin Institute of Technology’s Schools of Media and Computer Science MSc in Digital Games will be launched at this event. DIT has introduced this MSc in Digital Games to meet the increasing demand from the games industry for postgraduates with the high-level skills in the analysis, creation and management of digital game content.


According to DIT, this exciting new programme will address the key occupational areas identified by the Forfás report on the International Digital Media Industry. These are: management/project management, design; artistic/creative; programming; and quality assurance. Read more...


 

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