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Irish Social Media Awards 2013 finalists

Social Media Awards Finals Are Go!

By on May 27, 2013 in Customer Service, Events, Hosting, Marketing, Social Media

This Thursday evening the Social Media Awards are being held in Dublin’s Clyde Court Hotel. We’re delighted and honoured to be a finalist in several categories: Customer Care using Social Media (Integrated) Best Blog of a Business Best Business Twitter account – Marketing / Sales The guys over at Sociable have a nice overview of [...]

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Blacknight Sponsor 2nd Annual Measurement.ie Conference – Leading Irish registrar supports social data community

By on January 17, 2013 in Events, Marketing, Press Releases, Social Media

We sponsor a select number of events, causes and groups every year (before someone decides to flood my inbox asking for sponsorship!). How do we select them? There aren’t any “set” criteria – the basic criterion is that they have to pass our “sniff” test. Either we think the event is “cool” or “interesting” or [...]

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New Year New Resolutions

New Year and New Resolutions

By on January 8, 2013 in Marketing, Social Media, Tips

Everyone seems to be writing their new year’s resolution  posts over the last few days,  so rather than tell you that we’re going to give up chocolate or cut down on coffee, why don’t we share some tips that you could add to your new year’s resolutions for your business? Get a blog (of course [...]

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Want To Win A Kindle Paperwhite?

By on January 8, 2013 in Competitions, Promotions, Social Media

We’ll keep this nice and simple. Would you like to win a Kindle paperwhite? It’s a pretty slick device and we’re giving one away. You can enter multiple times – just use the widget below a Rafflecopter giveaway We’ll announce the winner at the beginning of next month  

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Missing Out On Facebook Offers And Updates?

By on November 12, 2012 in Social Media, Tips

As you may know we run some promotions and giveaways via Facebook and Twitter. We also try to post news, tips and relevant things there .. sometimes more than we post here .. Of course Facebook is constantly changing how they display content to their users, so some of you might be having issues seeing [...]

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Google+ Shorter Profile and the Importance of Social

By on September 30, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media

We’re strong believers in social media, so when Google+ opened its doors to business we made sure that we got a page. But up until a few weeks ago the URLs for accessing most business pages were long and not at all memorable. A bit like an IP address, it was a long string of [...]

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Twitter Cards Now Enabled!

By on September 17, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media, WordPress

As regular readers of our blog know we like to share our content across multiple social networks and tend to be relatively early adopters.. A few weeks ago Yoast posted about Twitter cards and how they were now “in the wild”. Unfortunately you still have to go to the Twitter developer site and signup to [...]

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Happy Friday, Happy Katie, Happy Ireland, Happy Blacknight

By on August 10, 2012 in .co, Competitions, Events, humour, Social Media

Well it’s Friday so I think that immediately puts most people in a good mood. Couple that with the amazing win by Katie Taylor yesterday and you can’t help but feel proud to be Irish. So we’ve gone and done things the Blacknight way and want to say a huge congratulations to her and let’s [...]

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Meet The Blacknight Twitter Team

Meet the Blacknight Twitter team

By on July 17, 2012 in Social Media

  Hot on the heels of yesterdays announcement http://blog.blacknight.com/press-release-blacknight-sets-benchmark-for-irish-hosting.html we decided to have a bit of fun and well it has been a while since we last did a “meet the team” style post so why not try to inject a bit of humour into things on this Tuesday morning. We’ve been incredibly busy the [...]

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Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards – Nominations Open

By on July 4, 2012 in Events, News, Social Media

The IIA (Irish Internet Association) Net Visionary Awards are in their 14th year and, as has happened in the past, the categories have been updated to reflect the times. This year’s ceremony will take place on September 28 in the National Gallery of Ireland, which is centrally located in Dublin. Nominations are now open and [...]

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Bert’s Happy As Blacknight Made The Finals Of The Social Media Awards

By on May 4, 2012 in News, Press Releases, Social Media

Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: [...]

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Even Dragons Like Social Media

By on April 6, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Social Media

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published and boy is it a long list! It’s so long that Damien and his team have had to split it up into sections: Social Media Effectiveness, Integrated, Social Media for Elections PR, State Body, Mobile [...]

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