Damien Mulley

The Pushee for this Tuesday is Toddle, now with a brand spanking new domain and another great redesign.

Toddle helps you build and send great looking email newsletters. Simple idea, amazingly simple way of designing them. They do have a design company as their daddy so that’s got to help. This week they’ve also signed up their 1000th user.

Despite all the hype about Facebook, social media and all the rest, there’s a magnitude more have email addresses than read blogs and have a social network profile, yet using the medium of email has been abused and badly done for years when the rate of return on a good newsletter or mailshot can be fantastic. So Toddle helps you out by giving you beautiful templates you can use to send good content to your customers.

Coming up in the next few weeks are: Crewger, eWrite, DownloadMusic.ie and more

If you want to have your service listed then fill in this form. Please note that online stores reselling goods will not be considered. Also if you want converage you have to also give coverage on a website or blog. Everyone gets out and pushes.

The Tuesday Push and everyone involved can only work if as many people talk up the companies that are highlighted. Please spread the word about these great Irish companies.

This Saturday as promised I did a free training session for people who wanted (or were pushed into) to train people on Business Blogging. The training session was in the Cork Airport International Hotel. A very funky hotel. One I like a lot if you’ve read any of my previous posts. I think most people were impressed by it. Amazing decor. A big thank you too to the Mercer Group who gave me the room for free and layed on (that sounded dirty) provided scones and tea and coffee for us, again without charge.

(Photo by Sabrina)

I’m actually going to use the hotel for future training events in Cork because the surroundings are so nice and there’s free wifi all over the hotel too for everyone, not just those giving the presentations or those staying there. Likewise I’ll use the Radisson SAS in Dublin again for training classes as the place is gorgeous and the service from the staff is exceptional.

So we now have 10 people who I hope to see in the next while also giving Business Blogging training and given the majority are bloggers themselves and know their stuff, this growing area will be high quality from the start. Nice way of smothering the cowboys.

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I also promised that I’d open source my training material and so I shall. I’ll be stick all of it on my business website in the next month or thereabouts.

Sabrina has blogged about it and a great conversation was had about what content is good for a blog, what people will allow and won’t allow as readers and what engages and what bores. I think for BarCamp Cork there should be a few quick unconference type talks where people contribute things like that. “Topics for good blog posts”, “Startup cheap tips” etc.

Feedback so far on the Media Training class on Wednesday has been quite positive and I hope that those on the course will start popping up in the media more and more. They certainly have the products and knowledge to get themselves into the press.

A huge thanks to a very nice and helpful John Collins from the Irish Times who’s even busier these days as he’s acting Assistant Business Editor. He spoke to us for 30 minutes on how to work with him and journalists in general and what works and doesn’t work. Again, thanks John.

Colin sent the above pic on. He suggested I photoshop myself to look like I’m interested. Oddly, when I’m paying real attention to something, I look like I’m tuned out. More on that in a later post.

I’ve been asked about the Cork one. There’s a difference between those who are interested and those who will pay for the course. I won’t train less than 10 and more than 12 people in a class. 6 have said they’ll actually attend. So let me know.

Firstly, Salesforce.com are looking for:

Salesforce.com are looking for a graduate or junior web developer to work in a fast paced interactive marketing team based in Dublin, Ireland.

Job Details.

A Dublin-based telco are also looking for a fulltime web dev. PHP, usual scripting etc. Email me for more details or I’ll email your details on to them.

Lastly. I’m looking for freelance/part-time copywriters for some blogs. Gastronom.ie to start with and then other blogs, possibly helping people/companies who are just starting their own business blogs. Apply within with subject Copywriter.

Congrats to dbTwang featuring in the Sunday Business Post today. Our own Keith is the CEO of it and they’re brought in Gerry McQuaid, formerly of O2 to be on board too.

The industry run Advertising Standards authority brought out their latest report two weeks ago. Perlico show up a good bit. Here, here, here and here. All complaints about them were upheld.

Most of the complaints were about pricing issues and dodgy terms and conditions as well as this famous deceptive flyer but one was about the fact that Perlico billed their 1Mb broadband package as “superfast”. They aren’t allowed to do that anymore.

The actual business blog for my new company will be set up in the next while on a different domain so these self-promotional things will go away then and it’s back to slagging politicians and the town of Muff. Promise.

Next week is the Media Training course in Dublin. August 6th in the afternoon. Takes place in the lovely Radisson Hotel. Also home of the Web Awards, dontchaknow.

The Cork Media Training event will happen mid-August. Dates will follow.

On Wednesday, 15th October, at the ICS Headquarters in Crescent Hall and in association with said Irish Computer Society I’ll be doing a day-long course on Business Blogging. Contact them if you want to sign up.

On Wednesday, 29th October, again with the ICS in Dublin I’ll be doing a day-long course on New Communications and Online Marketing.

There’s also versions of these (in assoc. with another org) going to happen in Cork. Possibly Limerick too.

I think I’m doing some free talk with it@cork in October as well. Stay tuned.

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Yeah I dunno why I have beans in the pic. Colour.