Annual Holiday July 2009
Posted by Ken McGuire in General on 16. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
The Event Media offices will be closed from 3pm Friday July 17th to 12pm Monday July 27th as part of our annual holiday calendar. This is the first of four breaks scheduled for 2009 (with additional dates set in August, October and December for the Christmas period).
You may continue to contact us up to Friday [...]
Some Devious Video Production
Posted by Ken McGuire in video on 06. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Since the changeover earlier this year, we’ve been tackling more audio work and more video work. This is the latest piece to come out of the office, produced for The Devious Theatre Company. The group are currently promoting a new theatre production that opens in just over two weeks and are looking for a series [...]
Meet The River Valley Band
Posted by Ken McGuire in Websites on 30. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Meet The River Valley Band. They’re just off the stage at Whelan’s in Dublin supporting Nell Bryden on her current Irish tour. They’re also a fantastic live act, hailing from Ireland with a train of musical though planted firmly in the USA.
We’ve just launched the first phase of The River Valley Band’s new website. You [...]
From Ireland & Scotland To Palestine
Posted by Ken McGuire in Sponsorship on 16. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
They’ve come from Scotland. They’ve cycled through Ireland. Now, they’re heading for Palestine and direct to Gaza.
Over the past few months we’ve been working with the Pathways To Palestine group, helping them get up and running with a blog, online donations, team email and more. The group are cycling from Ireland to Gaza and have [...]
Gearing Up For Version 2
Posted by Ken McGuire in General on 11. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
We’re gearing up for Version 2 of EventMedia.ie and the EMHQ Blog which will bring us (and you) up to speed with what we’ve been working on of late. A lot of what happens at the office goes on behind closed doors, designs remain between designer and client, tips stay getting filed in the diary, [...]
Kilkenny Open Coffee – June 2009
Posted by Ken McGuire in Events on 02. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
The next gettogether for Kilkenny Open Coffee takes place in Kilkenny City tomorrow at 11:30am at the rear of the Kilkenny Cafe, Market Cross Shopping Centre, Kilkenny.
If you’re interested in attending, you can RSVP via the Open Coffee Ning group here, or by visiting IGOpeople.com.
Getting Theatrical
Posted by Ken McGuire in General on 02. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
June is an interesting month. In Kilkenny it usually starts with the comedy festival, builds up with some music, a sprinkling of theatre and next thing you know you’re moving towards July and the Arts Festival in August. In speaking of theatre, Event Media are getting set to launch not one, but six new theatre-based [...]
In Another Life
Posted by Ken McGuire in General on 01. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
In another life, I was blogging for Pro Freelance Blogger, a shortlived startup blog covering many aspects of working for yourself, running your own business, working from home, networking and much more.
The blog was started in advance of the first Artlinks course, Blogging For Beginners, staged last year. Over the next month or so, those [...]
Intermediate Blogging For The Arts Slides
Posted by Ken McGuire in Presentations on 01. Apr, 2009 | 2 Comments
Here’s the slides shown during the Intermediate Blogging for The Arts session in Kilkenny last Thursday, the talk held as one of the ArtLinks training courses for creative practitioners. What you’ll find missing from the slides are demos and run throughs (on-screen) of using Flickr, YouTube for video blogging, the use of FeedBurner for email [...]
Intermediate Blogging for The Arts
Posted by Ken McGuire in Events, Presentations on 26. Mar, 2009 | No Comments
The ArtLinks Intermediate Blogging for The Arts course runs this morning from 10am to lunchtime. I’ll be there to talk about blogging, integrating tools like Flickr, Youtube, increasing your visibility, tracking your readers and getting both you and your content “out there”.
I’ve prepared a few slides for this morning which will be used as notes [...]