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Press Release: Blacknight Ring in the Holidays With Happychristmas.me and Big Domain Discounts

We’re not shy about sharing our news and offers, so our super duper PR person extraordinaire put together a press release for us in record time.. and it’s now winging its way across the interwebs  to spread the news .. What’s it about? Our super duper Christmas discounts of course! Here it is .. Blacknight [...]

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All Grown Up? Why Not Mark Your Territory Online With .Me?

Today thousands of young people throughout Ireland will be getting their Leaving Certificate results. (We’re a 100% Irish owned company, so we kind of noticed the media coverage!) The exam names may change from country to country, but every year thousands of young people around the world move from the relative safety of secondary school [...]

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We’re Moving .. .. The Blog

We’re going to be taking this blog offline for a time later this morning so that we can move it. We’ll be moving it to both a new physical location (ie. server) and to a new design and blog backend. As a result of this all comments are being disabled for the interim – you [...]

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How To Get A Blacknight Mug

We’ve spoken about the Blacknight mugs a few times in the past and we’ve had a lot of people asking us about getting their hands on one. So how can we make everyone happy? We can’t. But what we have come up with is a silly idea to give away one of the mugs and [...]

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WordCamp Ireland Next Weekend

Next weekend Kilkenny will be playing host to Wordcamp Ireland. We’re the headline sponsor, though admittedly I’ve been a bit remiss in promoting our involvement! In any case the event runs over two days, with three tracks: Intro track Blogger’s track Tech track The schedule includes some very interesting topics regardless of your level of [...]

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Irish Blog Awards 2009 Best Business Blog

Wow! We Won!

So this humble blog actually won the Best Blog of Business at the Irish Blog Awards last night! I wasn’t in attendance, but I believe George was there to pick up our award. Thanks to the sponsor, RedCardinal and the event organisers While I’m sure there will be plenty of blog posts over the coming [...]

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Irish Blog Awards Nominee 2009

Best of Luck To Everyone Tonight

Tonight a bunch of Irish bloggers and their friends will be living it up down in Cork at the Irish Blog Awards.I won’t be there, though I will probably follow the event from a distance via Twitter.. Both the company blog (here) and my personal one have been shortlisted, which is nice. Whether we win [...]

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Irish Blog Awards Finalist 2009

The finalists for the Irish Blog Awards were published last night and we made it into the final list! This blog is a finalist in the business blog category along with:Brightspark, Sabrina Dent, Curious Wines and Nice Day Designs. Best of luck to everyone!

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IIA Net Visionary Awards 2008 Shortlist Announced

I seem to be spending a lot of time talking about awards of late, but it’s that time of the year I guess …. In any case the IIA Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced … I’ve been shortlisted under 3 categories: Best business blog (for this one) Internet Entrepreneur Internet Marketer It’s nice [...]

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Blog Downtime

We’re going to be upgrading this blog’s backend this evening, so the site may be unavailable for a period of time. Hopefully (fingers crossed!) everything will be back working again shortly …

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Movable Type – Which License For Me?

Up until a few short months ago Movable Type, which is my preferred blogging platform, was not open source. While there was a free personal license if you made commercial use of the software you were honour bound to get a commercial license of some kind. Since then MovableType has launched an open source project, [...]

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Business Blogging in Sunday Business Post

I spoke to a Sunday Business Post journalist a couple of weeks ago about blogging and business blogging specifically. This month’s Computers In Business supplement features an in depth article where they spoke to a wide variety of people including TJ McIntyre, who was able to provide a legal angle: Brave new blogging world

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