The IIA is organising a series of events throughout the country in 2006. One of the topics that they will be covering is blogging and they’ve asked me to hold the seminar.
Where? Hilton Hotel, Dublin
When? 8th March @ 2pm
How much?EUR55 for IIA members / EUR95 for non-IIA members
What exactly?
A very good question 
The topics I hope to cover are:
- Wonderful World of Blogs (some introductory examples)
- What is a Blog?
- What are its uses?
- Technical Overview of what makes blogs work RSS feeds and all that stuff
- How to set up your own blog
- Blogging Pitfalls
- Commercial applications of blogging
- Can blogging win you business
- Search engines and blogs – will your content be found
- Monetizing your blog
- How to promote your blog
- Examples of how blogs can be done badly
- Excellent examples of blogs – globally and in Ireland
- Can blogging win you business
- Question and Answer session
Funnily enough someone else blogged about this before I did !!
From Anthony:
Sounds good. Will book in the morning.
From Ken McGuire:
*Ahem* All pause while I stand and take a bow… cheers Michele
From michele:
Anthony – look forward to seeing you there
Ken – Stop bowing!
From Bernie Goldbach:
It might be good to cross-reference some of Tom Raftery’s findings about blogging in business since the actual uptake of blogging in Ireland is abysmal.
From Paul Browne:
Unfortunately I’m not going to be able to attend this – any chance of putting the slides online?
Also , do you have any good Case Studies as ‘Blogs making Business Sense’? The one that I can think of is O’Reilly books giving it’s authors space to blog on it’s webpages – a high profile platform for it’s writers and relevant , technical , content for the company.
Example : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2366
From michele:
Paul – I’ll have to do the slides first
Of course, after seeing your references on O Reilly I’m feeling rather small and insignificant ..
From Paul Browne:
All shameless self publicity
I’m sure you’d have a couple of articles in you about linux hosting and web 2.0 / blogging!
From Paul Browne:
… and just to up the stakes my slides for the IIA include 3 Bridges , 1 Tank and a reference to the Berlin Wall …
From michele:
Hmmm.. So it’s a competition is it?
From Paul Browne:
No , just couldn’t thinking of any better ways of explaining Web 2.0 to non technical people!