KNOWING FULL WELL what works when I stick with good resolutions, I'm rewarming 2018 and 2019 resolutions and going with confronting and executing three numbers every day, numbers that happen to be on many of the batteries we're using with a home automation project. They are the numbers three, seven, and 1000. Each holds a specific meaning that Paul O'Mahony encouraged me to set when he first shared the concept of sticking with easy-to-grasp sequences. Continue reading

A LEUCHTURM 1917 joins 200 other A5 journals (mostly Moleskines) that I've used since 1997. Continue reading

DAUGHTER MIA turns 13 in nine months time and Twitter tells me I've been tweeting for the past 13 years. This means there's a cluster of tweets announcing Mia's birth to accompany a set of photos I've snapped and saved on Flickr (possibly requiring password access for casual readers). Continue reading

WHILE LOOKING THROUGH listings of best apps and games of 2019, I discovered I'm running a few of the top-rated items worthy of editors' choices. Continue reading

WE VISITED SWEET CAROLINE'S in Clonmel and sampled delicious cupcakes chased by warm coffee. And you should too. Continue reading

WE'RE APPROACHING THE END of another deep analysis of reading and listening patterns online. If you've figured out how to drive listeners while attracting readers, you've discovered a slice of business intelligence that I would love to see. Continue reading

I FEEL VERY INCOMPLETE when I fail to share snippets of life across different forms because no matter how hard I try to enjoy the ephemeral state of Instagram Stories, I get much more joy out of hearing people talk about their daily lives. And the written word resonates with me even more. Continue reading

We have a body of audio work scattered in various places so we know it should be rather straightforward to process those audio snippets and produce a syndicated show that connects current students to past graduates and future employers. In the first instance, we will simply port content from the Spreaker Distribution System. Continue reading

Every movement starts with an idea and if you're seeing this blog post, it means you've discovered the first instance of ClonmelDigital on its own internet URL. This post marks the first time a group of creative media students have collaborated to gather together some of their best work and then to offer it in a public space where potential employers and potential collaborators can find it. Continue reading

Fiona Curran, Art Team Manager from StoryToys, visits the Clonmel Digital Campus in the middle of Design Clonmel. She will provide insights to the award-winning apps created by Storytoys for its audience of more than 12 million young people. Storytoys works with renowned entertainment properties such as Eric Carle, DC Comics, Disney and Sesame Workshop. Continue reading

As we ramp up this special website, we are sitting next to a large sign posted just outside the Clonmel Digital Campus. It's all part of Design Clonmel, an initiative designed to bring together creative students, professional creatives, and community members who are interested in co-creation. Continue reading

I REMEMBER CHATTING WITH staff from the Irish Revenue Commission in 1996, well before the concept of taxing online commerce was rolled into Ireland. Back then, I marveled at the resilience of Amazon--but the Amazon of 1996 is a mere peanut compared to the Amazon of 2019. Continue reading

WE ARE SHARING a survey about the collaborative uses of cloud services with a framework provided by Office 365 and PowerBI. The data points come from survey work finished by creative students on the Clonmel Digital Campus and the PowerBI toolset has evolved through open documentation offered by Stephen Howell at Microsoft Ireland. Continue reading

EVERY NOVEMBER, in the sleepy village of Cong, County Mayo, I try to join 80 other people to share my perspective on a major topic. In November 2019, the topic will be about "community" and I plan to update this blog post to share thoughts that extend from a blog post I've made about what community means to me. Continue reading

AFTER 12 MONTHS of using the Sennheiser Memory Mic to create hands-free classroom recordings, I'm very happy to report I have never lost an audio segment with the Memory Mic producing high quality audio or high definition video. I'm now helping other educators understand the simple and effective workflow involved to quickly produce and share recorded minutes from academic settings. Continue reading

MY CURRENT FIRST WORLD PROBLEM revolves around a simple misconfiguration of my Google Tag Manager. It's a skill we teach in the Web Analytics module on the Clonmel Digital Campus. Continue reading

EVEN THOUGH I HAVE read and highlighted The Gen Z Frequency, I know there is nothing better than tuning in directly to the conversations of young teens. I had an opportunity to do that when I accompanied Mia (12) and her friends on a shopping trip to Waterford. Continue reading

IT'S OFFICIAL! My Instagram feed is a feeder channel for talented young people. I see some of this as I scroll past dozens of images shared by creative students. Continue reading

WHILE LISTENING to Rich Roberts bemoan the demise of random early morning audiograms, I picked up my Samsung Note 9 and responded with a resolution to restart my morning coffee notes and will publish them as Topgold Audio Clips. Continue reading

DURING AN INTRODUCTORY session with new students on our Clonmel Digital Campus, I asked how many people were using Instagram and more than half of the audience raised their hands. Although fewer than a half dozen said they had posted to Instagram that morning, my simple survey suggests Instagram is the pocket media channel of choice for our creative students. Continue reading