Two hundred entrepreneurs and innovators for first Bizcamp

Organisers say it’s time to encourage innovation and acknowledge the power of failure in pursuit of success

More than 200 Irish entrepreneurs, innovators and recession-rebounding business people will converge on NUI Galway’s Cairnes Business School on Saturday September 11 for the first Galway Bizcamp, a conference for networking, learning and sharing.

Bizcamp is a free event where entrepreneurs of all disciplines can learn and share experiences with their peers. Kindly sponsored by Microsoft, NUI Galway and Enterprise Ireland, the event is run on a completely voluntary basis.

Social media bootcamp for local businesses

An intensive weekend bootcamp on social media for business will be held in Ballybane Enterprise Centre on Friday and Saturday September 24-25. The two day training event will be delivered by Damien Mulley of Mulley Communications who specialises in training and consultancy in online marketing and PR. Tailored to the needs of SMEs and start ups, the course will start at 7pm on Friday and continue on Saturday from 10am to 3pm.

Topics covered in the social media boot camp will include design of content plan and messaging, Facebook Pages for Business, LinkedIn profile overview and using LinkedIn to generate leads.

New O Cuiv initiative will require unemployed to do community work

Fianna Fail TD for Galway West and Minister for Social Protection, Eamon O Cuiv has anounced new proposals which will require 10,000 social welfare claimants to complete community work in return for their social welfare payments.

Minister O Cuiv says the initiative could begin as soon as next month and he says it will be welcomed by people who are genuinely looking for employment, and those who are not will vanish from the social welfare system. “Those who are genuinely unemployed will be absolutely delighted and those who aren’t will disappear,” he says.

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