Scared of social media and particularly the damage it can do to corporate reputation?  Thinking of having a blanket ban for staff on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites?  Then think again. Even the most security obsessed – such as the US military – accept that social media is an important part of the communications mix and it needs to ...
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Irish retailers and other traditional businesses are planning to step up eCommerce activity in 2011 and encourage more Irish consumers to buy from Irish rather than overseas websites, according to the latest State of the Net quarterly bulletin. Price-conscious consumers are turning increasingly to the internet to research and buy products and services.  Higher internet adoption levels, smart phone and social ...
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From eCommerce to mobile internet, how has the online landscape changed over the past decade? The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) marked its 10th anniversary with the publication of  the “Domain Name Industry Report 2010”. This chapter of the report by Aileen O’Toole, Managing Director of AMAS, looks at the online trends during that time. What a difference a decade makes. In ...
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An overwhelming majority of Irish internet users will not pay for online content and are increasingly choosing to access free content from both traditional and new publishers, according to new research published in the State of the Net quarterly bulletin. As some traditional publishers seek to put content behind “paywalls” in an attempt to stem the losses from their online operations, ...
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There wasn’t one big idea… there were scores of nuggets over the course of the evening. People who had been there and done that in online business passed on their insights in an atmosphere that was both relaxed and taut with energy. The second Dublin Web Summit put over a dozen internet businessmen (yes, they were all men) in front of ...
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