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This post is aimed at people who have a business with an online component, but may not be too web-savvy. Sorry if it seems a bit basic for my usual audience of interweb geeks!

(edit: reordered Message Board and RSS paragraphs for clarity and fixed some typos, and stuck in a more link)

I attended the IIA (Irish Internet Association) conference yesterday, and found that while there was a few interesting presentations, for example Barry Meehan from Worldwide Cycles, a lot of the plenary presentations were basically sales pitches about companies, and failed to provide practical advice or realistic examples for businesses. (more…)

This little tool shows you how your twiter friends are connected. I choose McCabe as he’s one of the biggest twits I know… just kidding!

Part one - what Twitter is to me

Twitter is a tough one to describe. Some people call it micro-blogging, but I like the “mass text messaging” description better. To me, it’s like a typical pub conversation, with some people having one-to-one chats, while others pontificate to a mass audience. The great thing is, unlike a pub conversation, you can have lots of one-to-ones at once, or join in other peoples’ conversations if you feel you have a point to make.

What do I use it for?

I mainly use twitter to keep up with what’s going on in the Irish Web industry. I follow people who I respect in the areas of design, development, hosting, etc., as well as people who work in companies that are based in the internet/mobile web field. I ask for and give advice on a variety of things web-related, and look for help on bug fixes, links etc.
I also follow people who work in the UK, Belgium and the US, but the guys in the UK are the big shots like Jon Hicks and John Oxton so I’m not to sure I’ll be chatting to them in the near future! - and the US timezone thing makes a bit of a difference as well to keeping up with people.

You can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/irishstu.

-edit- haha misspelled youth
Just follow http://twitter.com/wubud to be in with a chance. You’ll also be one of the first to hear about a new product launch in some kind of webby-mobile-travel-locationbased-crowdsource-thoughtleader field (I’m totally guessing by the way). Visit http://twitter.com/ to make a twitter account. I’m http://twitter.com/irishstu if you’re new to twitter by the way.

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