Europe’s most inspiring online experts

Dear all,Some of Europe’s most inspiring online experts working in the political, community, media and governmental spaces will be in Dublin for a one day conference in Trinity’s Science Gallery on October 30th and I thought you might be interested.These are international experts who help groups, communities, organisations, parties, media and governments do a whole lot more online. The standard rate is €495 for the day, but we’ve set aside a small number of tickets for those working in the citizen, media and research space for €175, on a first come basis. You in other words, I opeh!
Please feel free to call me at any point on 01 672 9395 if you are interested in reserving a place or have any questions whatsoever.Many thanks and sorry for the email,PaddySpeakers Include:Niels Thogersen is the former Director of Communications for the European Commission. He is the founding member of the European Communications Academy & Vice President of the Club of Venice, comprising all of the Directors of Communication in the governments of the 27 EU member states and the EU candidate countries. His specialist area is new media.Benoit Thieulin was appointed head of New Media to the French Prime Minister in 2001. In 2005, he was appointed by the European Commission as head of the European Information Centre. In 2007, he led the web campaign of socialist Presidential candidate Ségolène Royal. In June 2007, Benoit Thieulin and 4 other associates created La Netscouade.Iain Dale is Britain’s leading political blogger. Iain also writes for The Spectator, the New Statesman, the House Magazine and Parliamentary Monitor, as well as contributing weekly to The Guardian’s CommentIsFree. He is a newspaper reviewer for both Sky News and the BBC News Channel and appears regularly on the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes.Bill Edwards is, according to the World Bank, “a global leader in customer-facing government”. He was the chief architect of Directgov (www.direct.gov.uk) and is currently leading the development of a new online One Stop Portal for the Hong Kong government. Bill is the Managing Partner of the Gov3 Foundation, and a former Managing Director of Directgov. He is also an expert advisor to the World Bank on eGovernment.Stephen Clark is the Head of Web for the European Parliament. His main focus in 2009 has been on the design and delivery of the Parliament's online communications campaign for the European elections in June 2009, both on and off the website. Stephen’s team is also responsible for the daily publication of news headlines on the Parliament's website in 22 languages.Alberto Nardelli is the Co-founder and Director of tweetminster.co.uk, a service that uses the power of Twitter to let people follow and connect with Members of Parliament and UK politics. His work has been awarded and covered across numerous media, and he has spoken around the world on the power of social media.Jimmy Leach is the former head of the British Prime Minister's digital PR operation. He oversaw the launch of the Downing Street petitions website, was director of digital at public relations agency Freud and previously worked for the Guardian's website: guardian.co.uk. Jimmy is the current Online Editoral Director at the Independent.co.ukRishi Saha is the Head of the Conservative Party’s award-winning online operations. Saha is credited as the man behind David Cameron's online invention ‘Web Cameron’ and was also responsible for one of the UK’s most succesful web virals ‘Pimp my Party’. Recently named one of London’s 1000 Most Influential People by the Evening Standard, Rishi is also a frequent media performer for the BBC and Sky.Ben Hammersley is the Deputy Editor of Wired UK Magazine. Between 2004 and 2006, he designed, built, and maintained the weblogs of The Guardian, including Comment is free. He has authored six technical books and programmers' guides, including books on blogging and social media. Ben coined the term podcasting.Mark Coyle is the BBC’s launch editor of Democracy Live, the broadcasters soon to be launched ground-breaking political web casting platform. Mark was one of the original launch editors of the BBC’s news website. He also launched the news sections for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the English regions’ sections.Julian March is the Executive Producer of the Sky News website. Previously he edited Sky's breakfast show "Sunrise", where he broke the news of the London Bombings, and then moved on to "Live at Five" with Jeremy Thompson. In 2005 he won a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Innovation for an on-screen ticker allowing survivors of the Tsunami to get a message home to loved ones.Prof. Ake Gronlund is chair of the world's two largest eGovernment researcher communities; the Association of Information Systems and the International Federation of Information Systems, and an expert advisor to the World Bank on eGovernment. He has published numerous books on eGovernment, is the Program Chair of the International EGOV conference and considered one of the world’s leading experts on eGovernment.Prof. Karin Furuli is a Researcher at Norway's Agency for Public Management and eGovernment. She is a highly respected authority on eGovernment in Europe. She has spoken widely and has been published across numerous journals and media. She is involved in the administration of Norway’s citizen portal Mypage, which consists of electronic services from municipalities and public offices.Ian Douglas is head of digital production for the Telegraph Media Group. As well as helping to turn the Telegraph from a newspaper with a website into a modern news organisation he writes about technology, especially its role in culture and political uses. He spent two months in a windowless room earlier this year working on MPs' expenses.Nick Blunden is MD at Profero UK. Profero is the world's leading independent digital communications group. It has 15 offices globally including offices in London, Moscow, New York, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo. Clients include COI, Diageo, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Lufthansa, MINI and Western Union.Maeve Kneafsey is Managing Director of Elucidate, one of Ireland's leading online strategy development and implementation companies, with a particular emphasis on eGovernment. Maeve was responsible for establishing the Golden Spiders Internet Awards and is co-founder of the Irish eGovernment Awards and Centre of Excellence. Maeve is the current President of the Irish Internet Association.
Paul Hayes is a tech PR industry veteran. Paul was marketing and PR director of Havok Inc, and saw the company grow from a start-up in 1998 through to its acquisition by Intel in 2007 for $110 million. Havok is the premier provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and film industries. Paul was also marketing director of Demonware, prior to it’s acquisition by Activision.
--------------------------Patrick CosgraveFounderMiCandidate.eu
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