http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/digital+media IrishCentral digital media en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/shadowy-ninjas-of-irish-dance-fusion-fighters-set-to-debut-march-17-video-196768001.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/shadowy-ninjas-of-irish-dance-fusion-fighters-set-to-debut-march-17-video-196768001.html Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:47:15 PDT
Pray that they only use their awesome hip-hop, techno, disco, martial arts, Celtic dance powers for goodI discovered Fusion Fighters today when I opened a mysterious Facebook message sent in a plain brown envelope (new service, still in beta), and throwing caution to the wind, followed a cryptic shortened URL to its YouTube sourceNothing could prepare me for the Mcfunkadelicness I found, and now share with you:http://wwwyoutube READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/no-shortages-of-ways-to-be-linkedin-to-ireland-and-the-irish-worldwide-194718971.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/no-shortages-of-ways-to-be-linkedin-to-ireland-and-the-irish-worldwide-194718971.html Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:02:00 PST
LinkedIn - the 7th most visited site in IrelandThe seventh most visited website in Ireland, Linkedin has over 200 million members in over 200 countries, over 26 million company pages and about two new members joining every secondAnd it has Groups, lots of Groups, about 16 million online gatherings of people, usually with something professional in common where members share news, tips, links, questions and comments READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/pinging-from-snail-mail-to-a-joe-hurley-wail-163073326.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/pinging-from-snail-mail-to-a-joe-hurley-wail-163073326.html Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:15:59 PDT
MEDIA PINGS READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/rock-the-vote-for-irish-eu-logo-video-135788878.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/rock-the-vote-for-irish-eu-logo-video-135788878.html Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:00:17 PST
Logos were digital before there was digital--quick hits, with immediate impact and lots of message delivered in a tight, clean package A powerful visual tweet designed “to aid and promote instant public recognition” a good logo can quickly communicate brand, image, backstory, aspirations and propaganda A new Irish logo is about to go prime time and you can help decide which of the four prototypes will become the official logo for Ireland’s European Union (EU) Presidency during the first six months of 2013Vote now until Dec 31 (by 5PM Irish time) at the Irish government site, merrionsteet READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/for-all-matters-digital-bookmark-siliconrepubliccom-135054783.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/for-all-matters-digital-bookmark-siliconrepubliccom-135054783.html Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:00:16 PST For a lively timely look at all matters tech and digital in Ireland and beyond, bookmark SiliconRepubliccom, founded a decade ago when the internet was only a PC-centric experience, Facebook didn’t exist and Google had only embarked on its commercial model Contrast that bygone era (in digital terms) with today when one billion people are online and the next three billion people will be carrying mobile devicesTen years ago Silicone Republic’s goal was to become Ireland’s top tech news source READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/ireland-punching-above-its-weight-in-design-too-130556568.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/ireland-punching-above-its-weight-in-design-too-130556568.html Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:50:14 PDT
Curse you shimmering, trend-setting Frank Gehry designed museum in Bilbao Curse you gorgeous seaside and mountains setting of Cape Town with your peppy BRICSA economy Dublin is right back at you with its new Kevin Roche designed Convention Centre and so much more! Ireland has been pulling off a few upsets in international sporting competition (rugby, okay, but cricket?), and has already confound the odds by making the shortlist of three, along with Bilbao and Cape Town, for the international designation in 2014 of “World Design Capital,” an honor previously bestowed on Seoul and Torino and which will next go to HelsinkiWorld Design Capital is a biennial designation awarded through a competition held by The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, which will make the official announcement of the 2014 World Design Capital designated city on October 26 READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/social-media-fuels-irish-artists-cycling-odyssey-128333058.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/social-media-fuels-irish-artists-cycling-odyssey-128333058.html Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:53:29 PDT
So quaint--itinerant artist pedaling through the Irish countryside, paying for a night’s lodging with a deftly done painting—all so very analog But it’s digital that drives this clockwise, one-man, two-to-three month, slo-mo, 32-county, social media cycling and painting tour of Ireland Irish artist Eolaí, ak READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/israelis-palestinians-and-an-irishman-and-the-stories-they-tell-126106378.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/israelis-palestinians-and-an-irishman-and-the-stories-they-tell-126106378.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:35:11 PDT
You’ll be hard pressed to find a business more disrupted than media While figuring out how to make a living in media may be a work in progress, there’s a relentless energy in media, a constant pushing, probing to bring stories into the light of day Fortunately the Irish are very good at stories Paul Costello tapped the power of narrative to help the Irish write powerful new stories READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/june-16th-blooming-as-another-great-day-for-the-irish-124539544.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/june-16th-blooming-as-another-great-day-for-the-irish-124539544.html Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:05:09 PDT
March 17th isn’t the only great day for the Irish June 16 won’t be mistaken for St Patrick’s Day, but Bloomsday is booming---or maybe blooming—and you don’t have to be Irish to celebrate it Annual commemorations of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses—a groundbreaking chronicle of one day, June 16, 1904, in the life of Leopold Bloom--began in Dublin in 1954 with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the events of the novel and have since gone global READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/england-beats-ireland-in-rugbyon-planet-nike-118649869.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/england-beats-ireland-in-rugbyon-planet-nike-118649869.html Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:35:12 PDT As Cathal Dervan reported in his blog here on Irish Central yesterday, Nike is hanging its swoosh in shame after jumping the gun—and the shark--by making a high-end TV commercial celebrating the English team’s anticipated Grand Slam win in rugby’s Six Nations Championship On Planet Earth, however, Ireland would actually crush England 24-8 to deny them the coveted Grand SlamThe striking thirty-second clip would likely have been shown first on massive video displays at key London transit hubs the moment the final whistle blew in Dublin, with thousand of celebratory “Grand Slam Champions 2011” T-shirts ready for sale at those spots as well To the chagrin of Rugby Union and Nike, the overreaching alternate-reality advert soon found its way into the social media jet stream READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/digital-natives-how-irish-teens-live-online-114941374.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/digital-natives-how-irish-teens-live-online-114941374.html Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:50:13 PST Plugged-in: study finds Irish, ages 13-19, are teenagers…as in typical teenagers, living much of their lives on-line A recent study of the media habits of Irish teens show them communicating with friends by text messaging (56 percent) and by Facebook (38 percent) and with their parents by shrugs, scowls, eye-rolls and monosyllabic grunts (87 percent--not part of the study, pure conjecture on my part)The Irish Digital Teen Survey was undertaken in November by Mulley Communications Ltd, an online marketing and PR consultancy based in Cork and Dublin that actively studies Irish digital space READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-video-nuggets-from-youtube-stream-see-videos-112999214.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-video-nuggets-from-youtube-stream-see-videos-112999214.html Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:35:09 PST
Looking back at the Irish digital media footprint in 2010, I’m stumbling across a few video nuggets gleamed from the relentless social media stream As 2010 really put the “dismal” in the “dismal science” of economics, maybe these YouTube robots, teddy bears and cartoon characters make as much sense of the Irish economic situation as anyone elseXtranormalcom lets you script your own little film with professional looking animation and quirky computer-generated voices, for example these robo-pundits worrying that the Irish people will get very angry at the economic situation…once the popular TV talent show “The X-Factor” wraps-up for the season READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/tangible-benefits-of-social-media-digital-media-and-internet-content-creation-on-irish-economy-94262184.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/tangible-benefits-of-social-media-digital-media-and-internet-content-creation-on-irish-economy-94262184.html Wed, 19 May 2010 09:35:11 PDT
Irish and Irish American businesspeople, civic leaders, entrepreneurs and digital media innovators at the recent Tangible Ireland meeting in New York invoked the power of social media, the social web, internet content and online communities as vital tools in reenergizing the Irish economyEvent organizer and founder of Tangible Ireland (http://wwwtangibleirelandcom/) Raymond Sexton, an engineering and management professional, set the media tone by titling the program “Start Spreading the News READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/virgin-territory-irish-social-media-ceo-turns-ordeal-into-opportunity-90365034.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/virgin-territory-irish-social-media-ceo-turns-ordeal-into-opportunity-90365034.html Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:20:11 PDT
Around St Patrick’s Day, when you’d expect to see the Irish all over the news, one Irishman monopolized the media, but not because of the holidayInternet entrepreneur David Hugh Martin, a native of Coolock, a few miles up the R107 from Dublin, became American media’s most wanted after he used his own social media platform, wwwkontain READ MORE ]]>