Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

http://www.iia.ie/ As part of my work I ended up at the Irish Internet Association's conference "8 Ways to Sell More Stuff" at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin, last Thursday. http://www.iia.ie/news/item/1627/iias-upcoming-conference-8-ways-to-sell-more-stuff-is-a-load-of-pants/ As a developer I wasn't expecting to learn too much from a conference about selling and online business, but then it's always good to keep up to speed with all areas of your work, and understanding business in relation to IT systems and websites is probably as important as making sure an index is properly optimised on a database table or some other uber-geeky thing like that. An Post http://www.anpost.ie http://www.iloveshopping.ie/ The afternoon started off, after some tea and coffee and very nice short bread biscuits, with a talk from the Conference's sponsor, An Post. They were basically flogging their service for parcel delivery to internet businesses that need a delivery se...

Finally dragged myself in to the Twitter  era with a Twitter account. I'm still unsure as to its usefulness, objectives and what can be achieved with it, and I certainly won't be posting things like "filling kettle with water", "waiting for water to boil", "OMG! Still waiting for kettle to boil water", "Made cup of tea", so on and so forth. At the moment I'll probably just "tweet" new blog entries through it, which i'll mention in my next post and which seems like a pretty good first use as Twitter appears to ultimately be a tiny rapid fire blogging engine. This isn't to say it's totally useless or meaningless and i'm sure after reading  http://business.twitter.com/twitter101 , ideas on how to best use and take advantage of the site will become clear. Anyways, "follow me" on Twitter at  http://twitter.com/jayhollingum .