Cork Open Coffee Friday 5th February
Hello all,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee will take place on Friday the 5th in The Rubicon Centre at 10am. If you need directions to the Rubicon, there is a map on their website.
There are no speakers lined up yet, if you have a new or interesting web product you’d like to show and get feedback from a techie audience either this week on in the future, please let us know in the blog comments or by responding to this email.
If you think you’ll be attending, please let us know in the blog comments so we can have an idea of numbers.
We have begun to use Mailchimp to send these email notifications to Cork Open Coffee members. The email list currently just shy of 160 members, is growing on a regular basis thanks to existing members recommending the meetings to other people. Please keep it up!
In keeping with the ‘Open’ of Cork Open Coffee, we will be publishing some email marketing data such as open rates and clicks rates on the Cork Open Coffee blog. No ones email address will be displayed on the blog, just some overview information and hopefully some useful data that might be of interest to members sending their own email marketing campaigns.
If there are any companies out there that would like to sponsor coffee for some of the meetings, please get in touch. In return you’ll get some publicity about your business on the blog, email and Twitter.
Don’t forget to follow @Corkopencoffee on Twitter!
Talk to you all on Friday,
Gordon.
Dates and some locations for upcoming Cork OpenCoffees
We have the following dates and locations finalised for the next few months. For the undecided locations, it will either be Nosh+Coffee in the City Centre or somewhere that we have been invited to. Feel free to invite us somewhere!
We meet, as always, from 10am-12
- This Friday 12th June – Regus offices in Cork City Gate, Bld 1000, City Gate, Mahon. Suzanne in Regus is kindly hosting OCC and will give anyone who wants a tour of their new facility. It’s the new building just up from the shopping centre on the corner near NSC.
- 26th June – Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 10th July – Brew Cafe, Paul Street
- 24th July - Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 7th August - Location TBC
- 21st August - Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 4th September - Location TBC
- 18th September - Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 2nd October - Location TBC
- 16th October - Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 30th October - Location TBC
- 13th November - Rubicon Centre in CIT
- 27th November – Location TBC
- 11th December - Rubicon Centre in CIT
Blogging & Social Media For Business Seminar
Evert Bopp of the Greenhouse Incubator contacted me about this great looking event in the Absolute Hotel in Limerick on June 13th.
They are running a full day Blogging & Social Media for Business seminar where you will be able to listen and talk to Irelands’ leading experts in social media & online networking.
- Bernard Goldbach: Senior Creative Multimedia Lecturer, University External Examiner, Writer & Podcaster.
- Krishna De: Brand Engagement and Word of Mouth Marketing commentator.
- Fred Caballero: Web project manager at Channelship Web Agency, Video blogger.
- Peter Donegan: Landscape designer, celebrity blogger.
- Campbell Scott: CEO IGOpeople, former director of Consumer Solutions at Eircom
It costs €150 euro p/p incl. lunch, tea & coffee during the day. All proceeds of the day will go towards the GreenHouse incubator helping people to start their own business.
Full details over on the site.
Invitation to BIS Innovative Software Showcase
Just got this from Brian O’Flaherty in UCC:
On May 26th, the BIS Innovative Software Showcase presents the entrepreneurial endeavours of eleven companies from the MBS BIS Programme.
Come and meet the entrepreneurs, their mentors and University staff at this prestigious showcase, which will be followed by an awards presentation.
A panel of external judges will evaluate the projects beforehand and award the BIS Innovation Prize which is kindly sponsored by Cork City Enterprise Board.
Do you have a good eye for technology business trends? Can you spot value and winners? Do you have confidence in the ability of young people to unearth innovation?
Tuesday 26th May 2009, 4:30pm – 6.30pm in Aula Maxima, North Wing, UCC.
Parking is available at Perrott Avenue (In front of Hayfield Manor Hotel) and Perrott Inch car parks (Near Gaol Cross.)
Further details and Brochure is available here.
Photos from last OpenCoffee
Magda Lukasiewicz was at last week’s OpenCoffee in Nosh+Coffee and took some great pictures, some of which are below. Check out her site for more brilliant photography.
This week’s OpenCoffee in The Rubicon in CIT
This week’s Cork OpenCoffee is in the Rubicon building in CIT from 10am-12pm.
The demo/talk slot is about a new business idea from John Peavoy, Bartosz Ptaszynski and Phoebe Bright. It is about helping companies jumpstart their software ideas. They would like to share their plans so far and hear your views on whether the business will work, and if so, what markets they could target and who they should involve.
We will ask Mr Cotton to provide the coffee and this will require a small donation from everyone to cover the cost.
Thanks again to the Rubicon for kindly hosting us.
Conor O’Neill
West Cork’s First Tweetup
Ann Donnelly is organising West Cork’s first ever Tweetup in Clonakilty this Friday. It’s on in the Courtyard Bar in Clon from 8pm. If you are on Twitter or want to find out more about it or just want to meet with some friendly people then why not head on over? All details are on the blog.
Should we make Nosh+Coffee our new City Location?
SOHO Solo Conference
Film producer and entrepreneur Lord Puttnam will deliver the keynote address at the SOHO Solo conference called “Reinventing Oneself in these Challenging Times” in Kinsale next Friday, 20th February 2009.
The half-day conference is aimed primarily at small business owners, entrepreneurs and those with a budding business idea. It takes places at the Kinsale Yacht Club between 10am and 2pm and is an absolute bargain to attend at only €25 including lunch.
Lord Puttnam will be joined by a wide range of speakers covering topics like transitioning one business into another, the importance of making and retaining connections and identifying your businesses strengths.
Other speakers include:
- Shemas Eivers, Client Solutions
- Dr E Alana James
- Bob McCarthy, Leadership Management Ireland
- John Prendergast, Aonach Consulting
- Pat Burke, The Auld Sod
- Kieran Murphy, Murphy’s Ice Cream
More details including how to register over on the blog.
WebMission to Silicon Valley
Last year’s very successful WebMission by UK startups to Silicon Valley followed in the footsteps of the equally successful Paddy’s Valley several months previously. I’ve been contacted by James Lawn to let everyone know that Irish start-ups are very welcome on this year’s trip.
They want to bring UK & Ireland’s top 20 fast-growing Enterprise Web Companies to San Francisco from 28 Mar to 3 Apr. Some good sponsorship means that you’d only have to pay for your flight and hotel. A word in the ear of your Enterprise Ireland D.A. may even cover half of that.
I have to say, the trip looks fantastic. This is what you can expect:
- Facilitated meetings with key US investors
- Meet and mingle with key Silicon Valley movers and shakers relevant to your organisation and growth plans
- Discuss your business with leading journalists
- Spend quality time with like-minded people in the valley
- Explore how to succeed and grow in the US market
- Attend Web 2.0 Expo which occurs during the same week
- Significant VP-level engagement with WebMission sponsors
The entry requirements are as follows:
- Be an Enterprise 2.0 company
- Be innovative
- Be headquartered in the UK or Ireland
- Have 2 years trading history, or failing that, compelling fast-track potential through management team etc
- Be able to provide references from key sponsors/industry players
- Able to demonstrate some commitment to sustainable business practices (eg, positive environmental, social or economic outputs)
- Be ready to do or grow business in the US OR potentially attractive to a US investor.
If you’d like to apply, have a look at www.webmission.co.uk
