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Job creation announcements were top of the list of goals for 2010 for a number of companies in January. PayPal, which employs 1,100 people in Ireland announced the creation of a further 100 new jobs in customer service and operations at its European Centre of Excellence in Blanchardstown, Dublin. These positions are in addition to the 150 extra jobs announced during 2009. The Dublin centre, which was established in 2003 with 25 employees, manages all direct customer contact for PayPal’s businesses across Europe. The jobs will see further opportunities for permanent positions in customer service and operations for individuals fluent in English and a second European language. Read more...
‘Whispurring’ good for workplace networking
‘Whispurring’ good for workplace networking Separating work colleagues from other associates and friends can be difficult for most social network website users. After signing up to almost every social networking website he was invited to, Conor Devine found that he was receiving information he did not need, sometimes even from his friends. Now Devine uses social networking site Whispurr.com which encourages members to create a network of friends that have a common interest e.g. workmates or perhaps customers and provides targeted information based on a person’s interests whilst protecting people’s privacy. Read more...
Insights into journalism and PR revealed in e-book
Whether working as a journalist is your dream job or you need to improve your business communications with the media, a new e-book from an Irish PR company has excellent tips. Bvisible Communications, through its website bvisible.ie has issued a free e-book of a collection of interviews with media professionals giving a unique insight into how PR professionals and the media can work together.The e-book, available as free download from http://www.bvisible.ie/ebook features contributions from a range of print, web and broadcast journalists. Read more...
Adwords the new door-to-door sales for utilities
The importance of knowing your Adwords from your elbow was highlighted recently by one of the players trying to muscle in on the electricity market in Ireland. The Bord Gáis Big Switch campaign, an integrated advertising, marketing and PR campaign exceeded all expectations. According to Eoin O’Suilleabhain, e-channel developer, Bord Gáis Energy, over 30,000 new customers in the first 30 days of the campaign were directly attributable to Google Adwords advertising alone. Read more...
Music to their ears, websites and televisions
MUZU.TV ‘the music video site’ – will be coming to other websites near you soon, following video syndication deals with a number of major publishers including AOL Music, The Irish Independent, Communicorp, Telegraph Media Group and Bebo. MUZU.TV is based in Dublin, Ireland, but available globally online at www.muzu.tv where music lovers can watch thousands of music videos for free including, concerts, back-stage footage, documentaries, tutorials, music promo videos, interviews and classic music TV shows. Fans can create their own music TV channel on MUZU.TV and share their favourite videos with their friends on their social networking pages. One of the key differentiators between MUZU.TV and many other free music websites is that bands get a share of the net advertising revenue MUZU.TV generates. Read more...
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Job creation announcements were top of the list of goals for 2010 for a number of companies in January.
‘Whispurring’ good for workplace networking
Whether working as a journalist is your dream job or you need to improve your business communications with the media, a new e-book from an Irish PR company has excellent tips.
The importance of knowing your Adwords from your elbow was highlighted recently by one of the players trying to muscle in on the electricity market in Ireland.
MUZU.TV ‘the music video site’ – will be coming to other websites near you soon, following video syndication deals with a number of major publishers including AOL Music, The Irish Independent, Communicorp, Telegraph Media Group and Bebo.
