All Girl Team Makes Rugby Magic
September 26, 2008 at 11:36 am
Our new site for Old Belvedere Rugby Club has just gone live. Not only is the established and venerated club updating its site, but they are taking to blogging in a big way.
The site is constructed using Wordpress which enables easy content management, it incorporates a Flickr feed where they’ve already got hundreds of pics up, and the blood red design will certainly speak to rugby players. But it is the blog that is really going to improve the way they communicate.
Last night I delivered training in how to blog to Committee members and team captains. I feel sure that they’re going to take to it in a big way; there are a lot of people in there who are passionate and have a sense of humour - two essential ingredients for blogging success.
On my own part, I’m pretty pleased that the all-female team at Brightspark has successfully delivered on the project objectives for this bastion of male-ness in Dublin 4!
Visit the rugby club site.
Brightspark is 5 years old
June 16, 2008 at 9:29 am
Today! Cinco anos, half a decade, in web years that’s like 25 years! To mark it, the office will be closed this afternoon while we retire to the Ely in CHQ for a spot of lunch.
I was thinking about the how long it took me to realise that I had a business that was successful and that wasn’t going away. For the first 12-18 months, I still had the fear of a Sunday night “I hope I have enough work on this week to keep me busy.” Ha! After a couple of yeas, I acquired the confidence to turn down work. The combination of economically booming Ireland and operating in a growth industry, means that we are in the lucky position of having too much work. A good investment for me was with Dublin-based business coach, James Sweetman, who helped me to define my ideal client. For the record, Brightspark’s ideal client is someone who appreciates what we do, ‘gets it’, and pays their bills on time. I highly recommend you define your ideal client if you haven’t done so already. Once you know who you want to work for, it becomes very easy to choose the ones in which to invest your time, creativity, and energy.
I’ll leave today with the Groovy Dancing girl (Sophie Merry). An update on the dance that went so incredibly viral on Youtube, this one sees her dancing in a more stylish set and to a Squarepusher tune that’s got a bit more of a drum and bass feel. This is how I feel inside when I think of how lucky enough I am to do what I love doing every day and get paid for it!
