Nollaig na mBan – A Celebration of Hope for Simon North West

I am delighted to announce that I will be MC at the Nollaig na mBan Luncheon in Kilronan Castle on January 11th hosted by North West Simon. Women’s Little Christmas falls on 6th January which is the Feast of the Epiphany and also the official end to Christmas. More recently charities have used it to celebrate women and across Ireland a range of ladies events for charity will take place. I decided that the theme of my address to ladies in the North West will be HOPE. Homelessness has certainly been one of the big issues of 2014 and the hidden homeless problem

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Building a New Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland in 2014

Top 12 Highlights of Digital Training Institute’s First Year in Business   It’s time to take a look back at our first full year in business and what a busy one it’s been. You’ve embraced us on the digital marketing stage and engaged with us in a number of disciplines including training, speaking, digital strategy, social media concierge, mentoring and monthly digital and Online PR support.  Here’s our top 12 highlights of the year which tell the story of how we began laying the foundations of our Digital Marketing Agency and Training Hub. The Launch & Beyond Following our official launch on 15th November 2013

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Connecting Clare Digitally

From June to October this year Digital Training Institute worked in partnership with Clare Local Development Company to train 125 small business owners and staff and volunteers from the community sector in digital marketing and social media. We developed five courses to suit their client’s training needs comprising: Social Media for Social Enterprise Digital Storytelling & Online PR Social Media Strategy (Beginners) Destination Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Strategy (Beginners) This week we held a mini graduation ceremony to acknowledge their achievements. Congratulations to Kenneth Pender from Clare Music Makers who completed our 5 courses – the only person to do so. Digital

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The Complete Guide to Growing Your Organic Facebook Reach

We all know that the recent Edgerank algorithm changes have resulted in our organic Facebook reach plummeting. Here at Digital Training Institute we teach our students who to be more relevant and engaging to combat invisibility on the social networking site. The blog post below from BufferSocial is very interesting in that they suggest that perhaps the 6% of people who actually see your posts are those that are interested in it. Now that’s something to consider. Source: https://blog.bufferapp.com/facebook-reach-strategies –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nowadays, when I endeavor to check my Facebook statistics, I do so with the window open, birds singing, a pint of ice cream

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