Comments on: A change is going to come, I can feel it – Irish Web Industry Association? http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/ Invisible people have invisible rights Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:16:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John McCormac http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-484489 John McCormac Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:20:30 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-484489 Irish Internet Association, Irish Web Industry Association, Irish Software Association - so many choices, so little time and all of them seemingly in Dublin. Ironically it is quicker to get to London from Waterford than it is to get to Dublin. Still though, the IIA is a networking and talking shop for a lot of the web industry in Ireland. The problem with Enterprise Ireland is that it may be focused on the usual political idea of a high-tech company - that of a pile of secretaries typing away at wordprocessors or hundreds of call centre jobs with the obligatory photo-op. The web just isn't like that. Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses are ignored. EI may well be changing but the internet changes faster and it is doubtful if the political bosses every heard of development in internet time. Irish Internet Association, Irish Web Industry Association, Irish Software Association – so many choices, so little time and all of them seemingly in Dublin. Ironically it is quicker to get to London from Waterford than it is to get to Dublin. Still though, the IIA is a networking and talking shop for a lot of the web industry in Ireland.

The problem with Enterprise Ireland is that it may be focused on the usual political idea of a high-tech company – that of a pile of secretaries typing away at wordprocessors or hundreds of call centre jobs with the obligatory photo-op. The web just isn’t like that. Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses are ignored. EI may well be changing but the internet changes faster and it is doubtful if the political bosses every heard of development in internet time.

]]> By: Bock the Robber http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-482890 Bock the Robber Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-482890 Heck, no. Heck, no.

]]> By: Paul Walsh http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-482333 Paul Walsh Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:14:18 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-482333 ... not that you'll care too much but there was supposed to be a wink in there ;-) … not that you’ll care too much but there was supposed to be a wink in there ;-)

]]> By: Paul Walsh http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-482332 Paul Walsh Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:13:07 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-482332 Bock - I don't hecking care. Bock – I don’t hecking care.

]]> By: Bock the Robber http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-482324 Bock the Robber Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:56:32 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-482324 I will not deal with a man who says "heck" I will not deal with a man who says “heck”

]]> By: Copacetic » Blog Archive » Oh my giddy aunt - we’ve gone all “Industry associationy” http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/comment-page-1/#comment-482056 Copacetic » Blog Archive » Oh my giddy aunt - we’ve gone all “Industry associationy” Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:13:45 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2007/11/30/a-change-is-going-to-come-i-can-feel-it-irish-web-industry-association/#comment-482056 [...] Walsh started it and now Damien has taken his gloves off.  So we’ll be adding the Irish Web Industry Association [...] [...] Walsh started it and now Damien has taken his gloves off.  So we’ll be adding the Irish Web Industry Association [...]

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