Keith Bohanna's public updates

June 7th, 2010

Innovation Bootcamp - no website?

Received via email:The Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship in association with Invent DCU will run the ?Jumpstart? two-day innovation and entrepreneurship bootcamp in Dublin City University on the 18th and 19th of June. This is an intensive

May 31st, 2010

Do you need to communicate a message? Watch this if the answer is yes

From Bizcamp Dublin on Saturday Crafting Outstanding Presentations - Storytelling TechniquesView more presentations from Claudio Perrone.keith(and I need to change the design template for the blog which I tweaked last week - on the tod

May 27th, 2010

Bizcamp Dublin - full speaker schedule and panel details

Thanks to Alan O'Rourke and Emily Tully in particular who are putting in the hours in advance of Saturdays bizcamp. Here are the speaker details (600kb pdf): Download Bizcamp_10_schedule_web And the details of our panel discus

Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs, or those with an itch

From DCU: The Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship in association with Invent DCU will run the ?Jumpstart? two-day innovation and entrepreneurship bootcamp in Dublin City University on the 18th and 19th of June. This is an intensive c

May 24th, 2010

Bizcamp Dublin - coming up this Saturday 29th - some of the speakers

I am really looking forward to the 3rd Bizcamp Dublin this Saturday in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. A. The speakers I will see on Saturday: Caelen King, CEO Revahealth: Focus on Website Conversion (He knows his s**t)I will sh

May 14th, 2010

Do you have a business angel who is above and beyond?

The main business angel network in Ireland is run by HALO and they have launched Ireland's first business angel award.The Irish Venture Capital Association http://www.ivca.ie have published figures for 2009 which show that angel investo

May 13th, 2010

Bizcamp Dublin, 29th May. (almost) Free

We have made a slight change to the model for No.3 with a 5 euro charge to cover lunch. Reason is simple - we had over 500 people booked into No2 and had to make tough decisions on how many to cater for. That cost was the single bigges

May 10th, 2010

IIA Congress 2010 - Thursday 20th May

This is happening next Thursday 20th in Dublin (Crown Plaza, Northwood) and for me the stand-outs in the day are: Bill Liao, Co-Founder, Xing Bill Thompson, Independent Journalist and regular commentator on the UK Digital Agen

May 5th, 2010

The Creative Island - Your Country Your Call

This is the summary posted by Alec Taylor, a client of mine, on Your Country, Your Call. There are many ideas submitted around this area and a number that deserve consideration. Will be really interesting to see which 20 out of the 9,000

April 18th, 2010

2 Bizcamps coming up

Bizcamp Limerick (the Authentic Edition) coming up on the 8th May - you can register here (http://www.bizcamp.ie/register-limerick/).Bizcamp Dublin (the 3rd Edition) has also being pinned - it is coming up on the 28th May - same venue (Gu

April 9th, 2010

Build your own website - Wicklow Friday 16th April for 3 weeks

One of the training courses I do regularly in Wicklow is this one. Using a service called Sitekreator a group of 10 owner managers build a website from scratch - and learn a little about good website design and how to communicate key mess

April 7th, 2010

One day practical social media workshop next Tuesday 13th - Kilkenny

While each component of social media is simple taken together they can bog down normal small business owners who have a lot of other stuff to cope with as well.One of the training courses I run which I have fun with is a one day practical

March 23rd, 2010

Email Newsletters & Mailchimp - Training next Monday

10 years on and while websites and these social media sites are all the rage email newsletters continue to outperform most other internet tools (see this post on the great site etsy and their introduction of an email newsletter last year

March 7th, 2010

Facebook Connect - List of links & resources to help decision making

While I love using the internet and enjoy the rapidly changing dynamic of sites and social media I was reluctant in V1 of dbTwang to consider engineering Facebook Connect into it. Want to reconsider that now and starting by looking up res

March 3rd, 2010

Free Bizspark event in Dublin next Monday

I cannot make this event (my dbTwang bootstrapping still requires me to do consultancy work) but it looks worth attending. Late sharing this with apologies:Microsoft BizSparkCampWhere and When?·         Monday, March 8th – 9am

March 1st, 2010

More changes afoot for the City and County Enterprise Boards?

Received this today from a friend of mine:_____________From: dan.kenny AT enterprise-ireland . comSent: 01 March 2010 To: ******************Subject: eTenders - Notice CancelledA notice that you have registered an interest in has been canc

February 22nd, 2010

F**k The Recession - YourCountryYourCall and Gateway Ireland

We kinda fudged the F**k The Recession when we launched bizcamp.ie last year - but it is what we meant :-)Your Country, Your CallOver at www.yourcountryyourcall.com they do not use those kinda phrases - not with the president and her husb

Shanti MicroFinance - London Party on 9th March 2010

One of the few charities I support is Kiva - an organisation which takes small amounts of money and lends them onto entrepreneurs in the developing world, and more recently in the US too.Sheetal Mehta is a London based entrepreneur who al

February 2nd, 2010

If you are a Metal fan then this one is for you

If so head on over to the dbTwang blog and make sure your fav metal guitarist is on the list.We will include every name left in the comments in our Feb monthly poll which opens next Tuesday. The January one, which ended with Brian Setzer

February 1st, 2010

Bizcamp Dublin Sept 2009 - Full Income and Costs disclosure

UPDATE - the google doc was published by muppet here with no sharing, it has now! Embarrassed by how late this is and thought I had better get it up before the date for the next bizcamp.ie is announced (which it will be very soon).Bizcamp

January 31st, 2010

Conversion and back to basics

from a venturebeat post by Bruce Judson entitled: The start-up chronicles: My Website’s not working: Now what?In undertaking this effort, I made the decision to look hard at two different types of sites: BillShrink.com (which, from a br

January 27th, 2010

If you like a blog - nominate it. 2010 Blog Awards

For this years Irish Blog Awards. Nominations (linked here) will close on the 5th of February at 3pm. Get a move on. Have your say. Don't moan afterwards if not. keith

Google Analytics session notes - Joanne Casey, Radical.ie

First blog post in quite a while. Sitting in on an Analytics session with Joanne (www.radical.ie) and we are touching on some of the advanced features. All relevant for dbtwang.comModifying the code - Joanne covered the need to change the

December 15th, 2009

So long SOHO...

One of the great things about dbTwang is having a co-founder. I did solo founder before and it was a longer and lonelier path to follow.Virtual working has diluted some of the benefits - even with us spending more time in Fintan's place w

December 12th, 2009

The Sword In The Stone

Starting Wednesday for 4 nights nights the blockbusting Sword in the Stone. Watergate Theatre, Dreamstuff Keith

December 8th, 2009

Got a subscription/freemium business? Free webinar 14th Dec

I spent about 180 euros on a report last week -   and having digested about 2/3's of its pages it was worth the price. The business behind it are holding a free webinar on this topic next week - more details of the report and t

Discussing embedded video's

The virtues of YouTube content being discussed by an engaged and informed group. Keith

December 6th, 2009

Toyota IQ - the important (Christmas Tree) question answered.

At this time of year this is the question on the minds of every aspiring IQ purchaser - will it hold a normal sized Christmas tree?The answer is yes - a 6 foot tree, a 6 foot driver and his daughter fit nicely.Here is the tree without the

December 3rd, 2009

Toyota IQ, the money trail

I have had the IQ for just over 4 months now and more than anything aware of just how much money it saves on petrol. I have done just over 8,000km in 4 months and so annualised that would be approx 24,000km. At 4.3 litres per 100 km

December 1st, 2009

Head of Technology required for London based startup

Ed Bussey was figleaves.com and was associated with Zyb. I ran into him on the iGAP program and this came this evening via Linkedin messages.I’m looking for a head of technology to join the founding team of my next start up - Trigga New

New CEB grant types from 1st January - much more flexible

This is the first information I have seen on the new City and County Enterprise board grants:Priming GrantMaximum -50% of investment below €160,000, or below €300,000 if projects clearly demonstrate potential to graduate to Enterprise

Great blog post series on customer validation/conversion/metrics

Via recommendations on Google Reader I signed up to ash maurya who is a founder of CloudFire (dead simple photo/video sharing for busy parents).He is working through the build and validation of a paid-only service for media sharing and he

November 29th, 2009

Free 81 page book: guide to software pricing

From Startupcfo (a ning based community started by Mark MacLeod) came this - "Don't Just Roll the Dice" by Neil Davidson. It is wide ranging and covers everything from psychology to competitors and fairness with an advanced section with

November 25th, 2009

Contrast - party, party, party

I may have to temporarily get over my dislike of being around talented young people if I get to the Contrast 1 year old party on Friday evening. Either that or just stay grumpy and quote shitmydadsays for the evening :-)"I'm having a Mak

Amanda & Lorna talk social media

  Amanda Webb (http://spiderworking.com/blog) shared her thoughts on how social media works for herself and her client. Her presentation here: Social Media CampaignView more presentations from keithbohanna. She drew my att

November 12th, 2009

From the crowd

November 8th, 2009

iGAP - the first two days. My thoughts

Monday and Tuesday last week (2nd and 3rd November) saw myself and Gerry McQuaid sitting in Trim, Co Meath representing dbTwang alongside 14 other businesses, a number of EI'ers, some of the Internet Growth Alliance founders, the coaches

November 6th, 2009

Barcamp Cork One Week Away - 23 great topics so far

I wanted to go to this barcamp. I booked to go to it - as an attendee and speaker. But now have to pull as have been invited to the Irish Software Association awards this day week in Dublin. I know there are many of you who would dance ti

November 4th, 2009

Winning International Business - 18th Nov

We are in the thick of seminar and conference season and this one is right on topic having just come away from 2 days on the very first iGAP programme.Event Date : 18 Nov 2009 Time : 9am to1pm Location : Radisson BLU Royal Dublin Hotel,

Upcoming conferences, one with 25% discount code

In Ireland - Content is King, from their site:This is a conference for anybody who wants to learn exciting new things about how to create winning websites, viral movies, compelling blogs, and outstanding podcasts.It is sponsored by the

October 27th, 2009

Email Marketing veteran tells us how tomorrow

Denise Cox has been working with email newsletters for as long as I have been using the internet. She is featured prominently in the IIA's Email Newsletter training course tomorrow. Details and booking here.9.30: 7 Critical Steps to M

October 24th, 2009

Toyota IQ mid Term Review

Been living with the Toyota IQ for a couple of months now so time for a review of the inside of the car.(for irregular readers I am one of 4 bloggers who won the use of the baby auto for 5 months in return for blogging about it).Lets star

October 23rd, 2009

South East Event Manager Required - Part Time

From a friend last night, could be interesting for someone with an events background:Event ManagerThe Green Party wishes to employ a part-time Event Manager from November 2009 to March 2010. This role carries responsibility for the organi

October 13th, 2009

Our first dbTwang screen cast

Fintan uploaded this to youtube earlier this afternoon - our first general intro to dbTwang and the initial functionality it offers to people who love guitars - everyone from enthusiasts to collectors. The beta continues to be delayed

October 12th, 2009

Busy & Behind

I am extremely busy right now - consequently rejigging how I organise myself and my workflows. If you need to get to me and I am not answering - resend the email, text me, whatever you need to do. Nothing personal just backed up.keith

October 2nd, 2009

Startup Metrics for Pirates - AARRR

Dave mcClure is good, this is his talk from FOWA London Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA London, Oct 2009)View more presentations from Dave McClure. keith

October 1st, 2009

Kevin Rose #fowa

Kevin Rose/Dig Twitter - one way and really simple Digg - leader board - worked really well, top people got uber icons [in dbTwang we could use this for comments, guitars, group activity] Focus on 2 or 3 things - stop overbuilding

Kevin Rose #fowa

Kevin Rose/Dig Twitter - one way and really simple Digg - leader board - worked really well, top people got uber icons [in dbTwang we could use this for comments, guitars, group activity] Focus on 2 or 3 things - stop overbuilding

September 29th, 2009

Just in (via Web2Ireland) - welcome changes to CEB grants approach

Thanks to Conor O'Neill for this - lifted straight from the Web2 Ireland blog:The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ms. Mary Coughlan, T.D., has today announced new initiatives aimed at supporting the developm

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