Category: Viewpoints
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Web Summit – final thoughts
Read more: Web Summit – final thoughtsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Brevitur omnia transeunt Since late yesterday evening the extensive temporary infrastructure erected at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) to support the Web Summit has been coming down to be replaced by still more…
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The Ying and the Yang of the Meetings Industry – Part 1
Read more: The Ying and the Yang of the Meetings Industry – Part 1Interview with Gorazd Čad The SoolNua team has known Gorazd Čad for many years. He’s a true believer and meetings industry legend who has been leading the conversation in the Central and South East Europe region around the business value of…
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Reflections on the Web Summit leaving Dublin – “It’s not you, it’s me!”
Read more: Reflections on the Web Summit leaving Dublin – “It’s not you, it’s me!”by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Stuck like Glue It never happened to me – I’ve been stuck like glue to Rita Smyth since I was 19 – but others tell me that relationship break-ups often end with a…
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Why you shouldn’t use Social Media
Read more: Why you shouldn’t use Social MediaPádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua A new service from SoolNua In addition to our core advisory business, SoolNua has recently started to offer Social Media as an actual product / service offering. This has come about because we discovered…
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Choose a job you love. You’ll never work a day in your life
Read more: Choose a job you love. You’ll never work a day in your lifeby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I love my job This morning on Twitter someone tweeted a statement that happily has applied to me ever since Gerry Duffy gave me my first job as a 14 year old in Deveney’s…
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Destination Marketing – what are your symbolic actions?
Read more: Destination Marketing – what are your symbolic actions?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Marketing Ltd Symbolic Actions? You’re well up Coomakista on the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle when the vista suddenly opens up and you see the slow, slinking shapes high above you, pushing manfully…
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Why you should enter for industry awards
Read more: Why you should enter for industry awardsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Reflections in the light of Ireland’s Events Industry Awards 2015 During our time at Ovation | MCI, entering for MICE industry awards was a key pillar in our business strategy because it ticked…
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The Meetings Industry: 5 questions we need to answer
Read more: The Meetings Industry: 5 questions we need to answerby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua IMEX is both Google and Amazon for the Meetings Industry. It’s a search engine and a showroom for network building, knowledge transfer and business exchange. It has a robust digital life but IMEX…
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How I could have been Bono
Read more: How I could have been Bonoby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Once a year, at Christmas, I indulge another of my passions and write about music on this blog. This year I’m allowing myself a second such diversion to tell you how I could…
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So what does SoolNua do?
Read more: So what does SoolNua do?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua All’s changed… Regular readers of this blog will have noticed how its byline and biography have changed. They used to say that I was Vice President of Industry Relations at MCI and Managing Director…
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