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With the increasing interest in social media by companies in Ireland, as I’ve mentioned previously, the Irish Internet Association (iia.ie) has established a Social Media Working Group and their first task has been to develop a number of white papers on different aspects of new media – initially focusing on business blogging, podcasting, social networking and RSS.
In December a workshop took place to discuss and access feedback on the draft white paper on business blogging.
At the end of the workshop I had the opportunity to speak with Rosanne Smith of the IIA and Brendan Hughes who is the Chair of the Social Media Working Group and they reflected on their thoughts about the workshops and I also asked them for their predictions about social media in Ireland in 2009.
You can hear what they had to say in the video below.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
You can find the current draft of the business blogging white paper online at the IIA Social Media Working Group Wiki and all comments are welcome.
I recorded the workshop and Roseanne has the audio’s which I am sure will be posted online at the IIA website when their offices open after the Christmas vacation.
Access the previous 2009 social media and online engagement articles by:
Disclosure: I have been a member of the II Social Media Working Group and facilitated the workshop.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
It’s really interesting to hear the predictions and suggestions. I think – from having attended the workshop mentioned above – that one of the more important aspects will be going right back to basics with the paper – what a blog is, how to get one and how one is “made” – which feeds back to your question in the interview about “who do you get to blog” and then go from there. It will take time, like any resource but done properly can be a veryy positive one.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
[...] is Krishna De door-stepping Roseanne Smith and me after the blogging workshop hosted by the IIA Social Media [...]
January 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
@darraghdoyle that look on my face is twitter fatigue
http://tinyurl.com/8o2b6t (You can also watch it at http://www.iia.ie)
January 5th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
[...] Krishna De of BizGrowthNews.com and member of the IIA Social Media Working Group interviewed myself and Brendan Hughes of FBD and Chair of the group right after our workshop on the draft guide to Business Blogging on December 5th last. This workshop went very well not least because of Krishna’s great facilitation which ensured that participants gave as much as they got from the afternoon. Unfortunately we had some competition from a bin lorry towards the end of our conversation [...]
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April 6th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
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