Mar
16
2010
Recently, Enterprise Ireland sponsored a Commercial Development Manager position at a number of the SFI-funded Centres. CLARITY, one of the centres in my portfolio, has just advertised for their CDM.
To quote the job listing:
CLARITY: The CLARITY CSET is a partnership between University College Dublin, Dublin City University and Tyndall National Institute. The centre brings together a range of leading Principle Investigators (PI) across a diverse range of disciplines including, computer science and engineering, materials science, as well as sports and performance science. The centre is focused on creating the technologies and applications that will create the new world of the sensor web. This world will harness the power of abundant, reliable, and cheap sensor networks in order to bridge the physical-digital divide and in so doing will focus on a wide range of applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, personal health, and social media.
The remit of the Commercial Developmental Manager will be to define and market the portfolio of CLARITY, guiding late stage commercial projects to maturity and identify early stage projects that have commercial viability as well developing and building partnerships with industrial partners. The CDM will be expected to spend their time working with researchers across all CLARITY sites and therefore the position will involve travel between the three sites.
CLARITY have a huge range of activity in their centre, from materials science, through micro-electronics and sensor networks onto software and web systems. If that sounds interesting to you, check it out.
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Mar
15
2010
Hot on the heels of WordCamp Ireland, IT Tallaght is hosting 3Dcamp on May 29.
Looks interesting.
Via EirePreneur.
[[Update – There is now a LinkedIn event for 3Dcamp]]
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Mar
15
2010
The Innovation Taskforce report was launched last Thursday, March 11 in the Science Gallery by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen.
I haven’t yet had an opportunity to review the full 122 page report, but I have read the more manageable summary report. I was delighted to see that one of the investigators in my portfolio, Dr. Geraldine Boylan, got a great mention as an example of delivering cutting edge research. Geraldine and her colleagues are based in UCC’s Neonatal Brain Research Group. To quote:
SFI Principal Investigators, Dr. Geraldine Boylan, Dr. Gordon Lightfoot and Dr. Liam Marnane conduct research in the Neonatal Brain Research Group in UCC. The group has developed innovative software to detect seizures in newborn babies with a view to preventing long term brain injury. The research team is collaborating with a global healthcare company, Cardinal Health, to bring their novel technologies to market.
Boylan and her group are notable not only for producing world-class research, and beginning to get an international reputation for doing so, but also for conducting truly inter-disciplinary work, combining computer science, signal processing and neonatal neurology. On top of all of that, the group is looking to commercialise their research through a collaboration with CardinalHealth subsidiary CareFusion, a medical device company with a large operation in Gort, Co. Galway.
Fantastic to read such a worthy group getting the recognition they deserve.
PS for a more complete treatment direct from the horses’ mouths, you can check out posts from two members of the taskforce: Frank Gannon and Chris Horn.
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Mar
10
2010
Session 1 – How to Become a Social Media Guru and Make WordPress your Bitch
Sabrina Dent – @sabrinadent
Sabrina kicked day two off with her talk on a managible approach to social media using WordPress as a platform. As she later admitted herself, being the first speaker up after three hours sleep in the previous 72 was probably not the best idea in the world, but nevertheless she delivered a very nice presentation.
Sabrina’s talk concentrated on the big three social media sites: LinkedIn, Twitter and facebook, and how you can use your WordPress blog as the hub between all three.
- Linkedin more focused than other social media sites. Unless you have your own domain, it’s likely that your LinkedIn page will be the first result in google results. For that reason, be sure that your LinkedIn profile is as you want it.
- You can pull feeds from WordPress blog to your LinkedIn profile. Everybody should do this. This is one of the best ways to let your LinkedIn connections know that you have a blog. Can get traffic from LinkedIn page to blog.
- LinkedIn groups? Useful for some applications, but often not for many others. Very few groups done well. If you’re going to use groups, make sure that you’re the group owner, rather than just a member. Build your own community rather than join somebody else’s.
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Mar
8
2010
Here are my notes from the various sessions that I attended on day one at the recent (excellent) WordCamp Ireland event, which was held at Langtons in Kilkenny.
Session 1: Building Online Communities
Leo Ibanez and Loughlin O’Nolan – @CommunityStorm
Leo and Loughlin had the unenvious job of being first up on Saturday morning. I had high hopes for this talk. I was hoping to come away with a bunch of specific actions that I could take to help to build and grow an online community using WordPress and other online tools. Unfortunately, I found the presentation was a little unfocused and lacked a clear message. The first half (or more) of the talk was given over to a protracted history of online communities, back to email and Usenet in the late ’60s and early ’70s – unnecessary and irrelevant.
The meat of the presentation revolved around using facebook, Twitter, YouTube, commenting on forums and your blog to develop reputation and a community. The presentation could have greatly benefited from real, practical examples of what steps to take, and what a developer/site owner can expect to achieve.
One interesting takeaway from this presentation was the observation that comments on blogs peaked around 2007, and that since then the conversation has moved elsewhere. That is, rather than leave a comment on your blog your visitors are more likely to post a link and a comment on Twitter or facebook. Because the conversation has moved elsewhere, you have to too.
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Mar
8
2010
WordCamp Ireland finished up yesterday afternoon at about 3pm. I took copious notes over the weekend, which I hope to edit down into something vaguely intelligible over the next few days.
In the meantime, huge congratulations are due to Sabrina Dent (@sabrinadent), Katherine Nolan (@doChara) and their team, who put together a packed programme, and a fabulous event with a great vibe.
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Mar
1
2010
Enterprise Ireland are hosting a webinar tomorrow, March 2, entitled “How to Write a Competitive FP7 proposal”.
The summary:
The first of a series of webinars that the FP7 national support network are planning is a 1 hour Webinar on March 2: 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. The aim of this one hour webinar is to provide researchers, research managers and administrators with an overview of the key pointers on how to write professional and competitive proposals for Framework Programme 7. The webinar provides guidelines on the evaluation criteria that need to be adhered to in successful proposals and outlines the common problems in proposal writing. The webinar provides tips on useful sources of information, how to select strategic partners and finally a proven approach for proposal writing, using clear concise content. There will be a specific ICT focus to this webinar.
The presenter is Miguel Ponce de Leon, Research Manager at WIT’s Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG). The TSSG is Ireland’s most successful research group in terms of research income from the Framework Programme.
If you’re in the research space in Ireland and are considering looking for FP7 funding, it should be well worth tuning in to the webinar.
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