Closed For Annual Leave November 11-29 2011
Posted on 12. Nov, 2011 by Ken McGuire in News
Our offices are closed for annual leave from 4pm Friday November 11th 2011 to 10am Tuesday November 29th 2011. This is our second and final holiday break until the Christmas season. If you are looking to get in touch with us during this time, we ask that you email hello@eventmedia.ie as phones will be unavailable.
Support is avaiable to existing clients through our support@eventmedia.ie channel or by visiting http://support.eventmedia.ie/.
We’d love to be open 24/7 but we’ve got to take a break at some point in the year. We’ll see you in a few weeks!
What we've been working on...
Office Closed for Annual Leave August 2011
Posted on 08. Aug, 2011 by Ken McGuire in News
Some of the events team will be in Kilkenny providing coverage for the 2011 Kilkenny Arts Festival. Our offices will remain closed during this time. Photo by Ross Costigan Photography.
Our offices will be closed due to annual leave from Monday August 8th to Monday August 15th 2011. You may find some of the crew out and about during Kilkenny Arts Festival and don’t be afraid to say but we’ll be back in a week’s time and we’ll be showing off the new face (and some new faces) for Event Media.
Existing support contract holders have been assigned their support contacts for the week. Requests for quotes for services may be delayed out to August 15th / 16th.
Seasons Greetings From Us To You
Posted on 20. Dec, 2010 by Ken McGuire in News
Well, it’s that time of year again. The cards are arriving, trees are up and almost everywhere you go the sound of Christmas music can be heard. It’s been a long year at Event Media HQ and a short year at the same time but we’ve had plenty of fun along the way. We’ve met new people who have become regular customers and clients, we’ve been to more events, launched and relaunched a huge variety of websites, produced more podcasts and videos than before and on a creative side, services continue to expand
We talked about relaunching EventMedia.ie back in October until reality and work schedules took hold so we’re going to use the Christmas break to shine things up around our own web presence and give you a look at all the things we’ve been doing for 2010 and will be doing in 2011.
On that note, I (Ken) would like to thank everyone we’ve worked with over the year, from the one man (and woman) startups through to the big festivals and hotels. Without our customers and clients we wouldn’t be where we are today. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed working with us in 2010 as much as we have with you and long may it continue past the turn of the year and the turn of the decade.
Over the Christmas period you’ll notice a few changes around the web, in pretty much every area. We’ve added a lot of strings to the bow this year including audio and video production and application development. We have a number of clients set to launch large online stores for the new year and on an advertising level we’ve just taken on board the design of a new monthly magazine for the region that will be produced in house. Of course, all of this you’ll be able to read up on by the end of the month as the transitional period from Event Ireland to Event Media is well and truly complete.
Our offices in Kilkenny will be closed for the Christmas period from 5pm Monday December 20th, reopening at 10:00am on Tuesday, January 4th 2011. There will be no phone support during this time though emails may will be collected and responded to as soon as possible.
Relaunching EventMedia.ie
Posted on 11. Oct, 2010 by Ken McGuire in News
I LOVE dealing with groups that are trying to redevelop or build on an existing site. You’ve been there, you’ve tried it, you know what works and what doesn’t and you know what you’re looking to achieve with your next build. We’ve been doing a bit of that recently with some of our existing clients having redeveloped the likes of Ristorante Rinuccini, Kilkenny Hibernian Hotel and Left Bank in the past few weeks and months.
Taking a look around EventMedia.ie, the current layout in existence for over 12 months, you would be forgiven for not knowing that we’ve been involved in a lot of video work, events coverage, producing advertisements for radio, branding pubs and clubs, working on new web applications and more besides. You’d be forgiven because, well, we haven’t really told you.
Just like we hadn’t told you that we sponsored a number of festivals and events this year and donated our services and resources for charitable causes.
Just like we haven’t really shown you either that there’s a raft of new services on the way for 2011, some of which we’ve already been trialling with existing clients.
Well, it’s all about to change. We’ve been sitting on the new EventMedia.ie site for a few months now and feel that it’s about time we let it off into the wild. So, come the October Bank Holiday weekend, when you visit EventMedia.ie, gone will be the blues and older branding and ushered in is a fresh new look that will give you a real insight as to what happens beyond the walls of the office, as well as filling you in on how the new services can benefit your business no matter what level you’re at.
The transition is done and we’re looking forward to sharing it with you in a few weeks. In the mean time, why not say hello on Twitter – you might even find some sneak previews coming your way.
- Ken
Please Ignore Domain Renewal Group Notices
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Ken McGuire in News
Every now and again we’ll get letters in the door, phone calls from clients, and its usually in the runup to a .com domain renewal. These letters arrive from Domain Renewal Group, are priced in Euro and to some folk might appear as an invoice requesting you to renew your domain. Please note, that this is certainly not the case.
Domain Renewal Group are not asking you to renew your domain, but to transfer your domain to their company. We’re advising anyone who gets these letters in the door to discard them, bin them, ignore them. But above all else, DO NOT act on that letter.
How do I know Event Media didn’t send that letter?
- It’s in the name – we’re Event Media, not Domain Renewal Group
- It arrived by post – we moved to electronic invoicing many moons ago
- The cost of your .com domain renewal on that letter would be €28 which is 2-3 times the cost of our standard .com renewal
- If you return the letter, you’ll realise that you’re sending it to England, and not Kilkenny.
Note that invoices from Event Media will always arrive on Event Media headed paper, they’ll always come from (and be accessible in) your online customer account. So please, don’t fall for their over-inflated and rather expensive offers on domain renewal.
The Revolution Of The Internet
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Ken McGuire in General, video
This was one of the many videos shown at Media 2020 : A Vision Of The Future today in Croke Park. I’d been along to the event as a guest, chipping on some of the live tweeting of the conference under the #med2020 tag.
I’ll update later with a list of all other videos once I’ve compiled notes on the day. For my own tweets from the day check @kenmcguire on Twitter.
Here’s to fresh content and engagement over the coming months!
Great Podcasting Day, New Resource Going Live
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Ken McGuire in Events, Podcasting
Yesterday saw the delivery of the first audio and video podcasting course for ArtLinks, presented by myself (Ken), along with Alan Slattery and John Morton of Mycrofilms. While Event Media have delivered courses for ArtLinks over the past two years or so, this was the first time (and hopefully not the last) that we’ve combined with Mycrofilms to deliver course content for the arts.
The day itself saw a gathering of techie, non-techie, practicing and non-practicing artists gather to find out about all aspects of podcast, from preparing content, to file formats, examples of software, basic audio and video editing, camera theory, online distribution and lots more. Over the course of six hours it can be hard to cram *everything* you need to know about podcasting in, particularly given the varied audience, but we had a great day out of it, produced a very short podcast by the end of the day and left people with plenty of food for thought on how they could be using podcasts to promote or enhance their activity online.
The slides above are some notes that were used during the day but the real benefit is reaped by those who joined us at No 76 (Kilkenny County Council Arts Office) for demos of various microphones, cameras, online resources and of course the conversations that were sparked as a result throughout the day.
Our thanks to Mary & co. at the Arts Office, Cathy at ArtLinks for organising the day and giving us another opportunity to link up with artists in the South East and to all those who attended the course.
As a result, we’ve decided to press ahead and publish a new blog resource for podcasting which will contain tips and tricks from ourselves, additional notes from our course material and plenty of information to get to you started in the world of podcasting. LovePodcasting.com will be going live by Friday of this week and we’ll be notifying everyone who was on the course when the resources become available.
Based on the feedback returned on from the first running of the course, we hope to shape the podcasting day into a regular feature. Keep an eye on the Event Media blog for more when that happens.
Audio & Video Podcasting for The Arts
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Ken McGuire in Podcasting
January arrived, then it completely flew by and now we find ourselves almost wrapping up the first week in February. Of course, we’ve been busy in the time since and one of the developments to come out of the last month is a new podcasting course tackling both audio and video delivery for the internet.
Under the Artlinks banner, Event Media and Mycrofilms combine forces once again, this time to deliver a full-day course and workshop on audio and video podcasting for the arts on Monday March 1st. Here’s the full details from Artlinks…
ArtLinks has designed a brand new course as an introduction to the ideas and techniques for capturing and presenting more aspects of your creative work online. With cheaper video and audio recording options and the audio-visual possibilitie…s now provided by broadband, creative people and arts institutions are beginning to investigate these new media as more effective means of engaging their audiences. Increasingly the web is being examined by creative people and organisations as a new place not only to present artistic work but to share their creative skills and processes, their artists talks and interviews.
You may be a poet thinking about your work being read on-line, a crafts person wishing to share a new technique to build your online audience, or thinking about a novel way to document and present your artistic process. Arts organisations may also be interested in how to retain some of the value of artist s talk to capture and present them online.
Event Media and Mycrofilms combine for ArtLinks on the delivery of a new audio and video podcasting course. In this day long course, attendees will be introduced to audio and video podcasting and working with audio and video both online and offline. The tutors – Ken McGuire, John Morton and Alan Slattery – look at the background to podcasting, planning your podcast, hardware and software, recording audio, filming, basic lighting, editing audio and video for the web and finally uploading, promoting and distributing your podcast online.
Ken McGuire s Playlist Mix won Best Podcaster at the 2008 Irish Web Awards. He continues to produce regular music and spoken word podcasts and developed the 2009 Kilkenny Arts Festival podcast series. John Morton and Alan Slattery have been producing video podcasts with Mycrofilms for their highly acclaimed web comedy Vultures, since 2007.
Event Media have been tutoring ArtLinks courses since 2008 and we’re delighted to work with Cathy and the members again on this course. Places are limited and if they’re not already snapped up they will be soon. 15 places are available on the course at a heavily subsidised price of €30 for members and €45 for non-members with a light lunch also included on the day.
Registration is available online via ArtLinks.ie.
A Quick Peek in the Audio Office
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Ken McGuire in video
One of the objectives for 2010 in the office here, for the blog, is to show a little bit more about what goes on behind the scenes, walls, doors of Event Media.
In November last year we set about recording vocals for eight tracks from US-based band Pain and Progress. Some of the tracks, Low and New Obsession, can be heard on their MySpace.
The band’s lead singer, Jimmy Trigger (James Doran) is based here in Kilkenny and when not travelling to the US to record with the band, he’s here in the office to record the vocals on our own setup, some of which you’ll see in the video shot this morning (above). The vocals are mixed with audio delivered by Mark Hunt in North Carolina and returned back to the band for demoing. No CDs, no couriers, no post, strict online delivery of the tracks within minutes of them being finished. Some 5921km away.
This morning we’re linking back up with the band to run some more mixes, record a few additional vocals and send two more tracks off to the US for inclusion on their new demo CD.
Pain and Progress join the list of acts including Itchy Trigger Finger, Von Bizmark, South, The Lions Mane, Empire Social, Clive Barnes, Saving J, The River Valley Band and more that we’ve been working with since the expansion to Event Media last March.
The above video was shot on an iPhone 3G using the Qik app.
And So 2010 Begins…
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ken McGuire in News
So 2010 gets has been ushered in. The cars were frozen, there’s snow on the roads but the office has reopened with new projects on the table for the month of January. That said, there’s a lot of spring cleaning being done today, desks being cleaned out, the ‘09 calendars and planners being replaced with the new ones but ultimately it signals the beginning of a new year.
We’ve got some new in-house projects to start sharing, some nice new additions planned for our own site and new services rolling out over the first quarter of the year for old and new clients alike.
So while we get on with the tidying here and get up to speed, happy new year to all and here’s to hoping that 2010 (particularly if you’re working in Ireland) will be a prosperous one.
