Posted on December 24, 2007 at 12:47 pm | 
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I’d like to call a meeting to discuss the building of a networking ecosystem in Ireland to help increase awareness of events around the country.
One of my previous posts attracted much needed attention to this topic, as passionate people with great intentions (me included) agree to agree, without actually agreeing on an action plan.
I’d like to call this Ireland Inc. Until we decide otherwise, it refers to both Web and Mobile based networking events.
(On a separate note, I’m hosting a meeting in January to discuss the creation of a new Industry Association. This has previously been referred to as Ireland Inc. also. So, for the sake of keeping things simple, I’d like to call the new yet-to-be-created association, IIMA (Irish Interactive Media Association). This is a working name only. Rather than discuss potential names here, I’d like to propose waiting until the meeting.)
Agenda
- Type of events covered by Ireland Inc.
- Should we create some kind of committee to help structure the build of an ecosystem?
- Should we choose one central hub for most events? Where should it be?
- How do we raise awareness for the central hub of communication to people outside of Ireland?
- Action plan
- Anything else?
Where Jaipur
When 12th February 2007 at 7pm
Cost €30
I’d like to propose keeping the number of people to say, 15? It’s very likely that we’ll get more than 15 people interested in this conversation, so please let me know how you think we should choose who comes to the first meeting.
If you’re interested in helping to create the ecosystem for better networking in Ireland, please register your interest now.
22 Comments
So far,
December 24, 2007 @ 
Marcus Mac Innes
As someone who has run grass roots networking events in the past, I would like to participate in such an event. Paul, thanks for suggesting and hosting this event but (and please don’t take this personally) I don’t believe proposing or hosting the event should give anyone license for automatic inclusion if number are to be limited. You should be subject to the same rules for inclusion as anyone else and I would go as far as to say that perhaps people who work and live in Ireland should take priority over those that don’t… IMO this is about getting networking in Ireland going first and foremost and internationally second.