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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Event Media offices are closed (as per our advance notice) from today, Friday October 9th, to Friday October 23rd, reopening at 10am on Tuesday October 27th following the October Bank Holiday.

Support and general queries can still be emailed to the usual address though a response during this period cannot be guaranteed.

We’ll see you in a few weeks!

Photo of Dublin Airport by Ken McGuire / Event Media (All Rights Reserved)

The closure is to facilitate annual holiday and as such, Event Media will not be available for new work during this period.