Joint effort by Brightspark and the Restaurants Association of Ireland to support the sector by providing training in social media designed to help restaurants survive by clear communication and clever social.

At a time when social media is truly social, now IS the time to be purveying non-essential items. (update May 2020 - it's OK to promote now)

I'm delighted to be included in the Top 50 Irish Marketers list again.

We've been preparing for GDPR for some time. Here are our tips to help SME's get ready. You've probably got most of it done already.

Delighted to be nominated as one of the Top 50 Social Media Blogs in the world.

A quick look back to the woman who danced her way through our childhood memories! RIP Mary, may your feet always be happy.

I was asked to join the Board of the new Drinkaware and I said yes. Here's why.

Have you seen this hilarious picture from Saudi Arabia? It's the all-male participants of the women's rights conference. Now look at DMX2015 speaker lineup.

#Cong14 was just great and I am very grateful to Eoin Kennedy for making it happen, and to everyone who attended for being their brilliant selves! My only complaint is that I didn’t get to be in EVERY huddle – they were so good, so stimulating.  Speaking of stimulating, here is an update on what […]

JOY oh JOY! Brightspark won at the Irish Web Awards 2014: Most Responsive Website & Best New Web App.

Go out and buy a copy of Image Magazine this month (August 2014) and flick to the fashion bit, and you’ll see me! I was invited to take part in a shoot for a piece by Uber Stylist Cathy O’Connor. Entitled “1 Item, 4 Ways”, Cathy was tasked to style one item (a jacket) for […]

I believe in blogs!  And they are as powerful and important as ever.  I was asked recently if they still count as much by someone who has been a bit resistant to them. This is what I said: Blogs are super important because they are the source of content.  The blog is like the big […]

In a slightly nostalgic mood here so we’re going to take a look back at Brightspark. It’s been a decade that I’ve been writing this blog which I defined back in 2003 as ‘about the up’s and down’s of running an internet business in Dublin.’  Gosh, when I started it, I had to do a […]