Had a good, educational and inspiring day in Dublin yesterday!

In the morning I caught Damien Mulley’s talk on the benefits of Social/Online Media and although I’m fairly heavily involved in this area already there was plenty to learn, proved by all the notes I took! The new idea is that you have to “earn” your online space and give great value in return for followers, connections, search rankings and sales leads.

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I’m prompted to write this after a recent experience with a client who ignored my once yearly invoice for Domain and Hosting renewal a little too long (one of many!). If you have a website then you will almost definitely get a yearly or monthly bill from either your hosting company or web designer for 2 things at least: Read the full article »

Maybe I’m qualified to give business startup advice or maybe I’m not but here’s what’s worked for me so far!

I would highly recommend starting your own business, especially in the current climate. You know it’s unlikely you’ll ever be happy in your 9 to 5, doing the same thing day in day out and all for the benefit of someone else. Working for yourself means no more boss looking over your shoulder, no more restrictions on your time, no more journey times (if you can work at home!), no more repetition (self employment is never boring!). However you might also be saying goodbye to a regular wage and some security! Read the full article »

Here’s a handy PDF for Beatles lovers and musicians, the entire Beatles catalogue of songs with lyrics and chords!

Credit to Sergio Palumbo for compilation.

Enjoy!

Beatles Complete Guitar

Dug this recording out of an old pile on the computer. It’s me, Karl and Frank from about 2005 in Leitrim. We intended to record the whole U2 song properly but something went funny just after the start. It became an epic, delay laden instrumental with Asian influences and manic laughing!

It’s 13 mins long but bare with it, it’s funny near the end… We were sober, honest..

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In addition to the many Wordpress Video Tutorials I have on this Blog, I’d like to provide a simple, downloadable and printable PDF instruction manual on how to do some of the most common and basic things in Wordpress. The PDF is a series of 12 annotated screenshots form version 2.9.1 of Wordpress which is the latest version at the time of writing this article.

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Get the Free Adobe Reader to view this PDF if you havn’t already.

Michael on Bass, Me on Acoustic and Lead Guitar and Eimear singing. Recorded and mixed in Reverb Studios.

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Me on Acoustic and Lead Guitar, Michael on Bass and Bongos and managed to get my partner Eimear singing! Recorded and mixed in Reverb Studios.

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Here’s a video tutorial on how to add a contact or enquiry form to a wordpress page or post using the Contact Form 7 plugin.

* Update: The value pasted into the “Mail – From” field and the “Message Body” should be [name] and not [text* name] as outlined in the video.

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