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The political system needs to get to grips with social media as it is set to play a crucial role in all upcoming elections in the future.

“Inspire Ireland” is an initiative designed to stimulate new business in Ireland. Following on from the hugely successful inaugural Irish Executives Summit held in Galway this September, Irish businesses at home and abroad have offered €150,000 worth of in-kind business services to the top three entries.

The networked world's social habits are changing. As email revolutionised business communication, so social networking has profoundly changed how people interact privately, and even how they start and end relationships. That’s why ESET Ireland has commissioned a survey carried out by Amárach Research on 850 people, to reveal how Irish people react online and on social media after an emotionally stressful event of a relationship break-up.

Q. I am just putting together my CV for the first time in 14 years. Should I put a link to my LinkedIn account on it? (John, question put to us at recent jobs expo seminar in Castlebar, Co. Mayo)

Mercedes-Benz in Ireland has fastened on to the importance of social media with its arrival on Facebook and the launch of its new interactive movie Drive & Seek, which went live recently.

A special conference on producing successful festivals and social events will be held in Ballinasloe in November.

Two hundred experts and Irish business people from home and abroad are joining forces in Galway to learn about some of the most current and critical contributing factors to business growth.

Tourism operators from Athlone and around the Lakelands Region met with representatives of Tourism Ireland recently, to discuss opportunities to grow overseas tourism business for this part of Ireland from key markets around the world.

Two Athlone-based gardaí are currently halfway through an epic kayak journey from the bottom to the top of Ireland in aid of charity.

Irish Executives is a 7,000 member virtual network on LinkedIn, the social media site for business people. Since its inception in 2008 by Galway-man John Keogh, a range of online comments debating the business affairs of Ireland has stretched from Ballsbridge to Bangkok and back again. This conversation is now moving from the virtual to reality with IrelandONE to IrelandWON, a gathering of Irish business people from home and abroad, in Galway at the Radisson Blu Hotel on September 15.