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Want A Job? Linux & Windows Expertise Required

By on February 16, 2013 in Careers, Hosting

We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual [...]

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And The Most Beautiful Website In Ireland Is ..

By on November 2, 2012 in Design, Events

As mentioned previously,  we sponsored this year’s Irish Web Awards. The category we sponsored was “Most Beautiful Website in Ireland” and last night I was in Dublin’s Mansion House to attend the event and get the photo above (there’s more of the other winners here) So which website wears the crown of “Most Beautiful Website [...]

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Unlisted but the Irish Web Awards Short Lists are out

By on October 5, 2012 in Events

You can’t win them all and you really can’t win them if you’re not short listed… Yes,  the Irish Web Awards short list is out. This year, as always, there’s a lot of talent on display and a lot of websites we’ve never even heard of. So it’s great when an awards ceremony comes along [...]

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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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Opinion: Ireland Needs A Voice On Internet Policy

By on June 3, 2012 in business, policy

Today’s Sunday Business Post has a short opinion piece by me in their “Real Views” section, which is a weekly opinion piece / column from an SME for SMEs. Since a lot of our readers aren’t in Ireland I’m republishing it here. Since I moved back to Ireland from Italy in 2003 to run my [...]

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Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday

By on March 25, 2012 in Events

If your business is using social media then you might want to consider entering it for the 2012 Social Media Awards. Nominations close this Friday You can find out more about last year’s winners (including ourselves) in the whitepaper here. The event takes place in the Mansion House in Dublin on May 17th and if [...]

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Measurement Tickets Up For Grabs!

By on January 20, 2012 in Events, Marketing

Measurement is being held next month in Dublin and we’re really excited about it and Bert got all dressed up! What is it? It’s a one day conference on social media measurement ie. tracking sales etc., from social media (and other outlets) Where is it? National College of Ireland, Dublin 1 When is it? February [...]

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Sponsoring 24 The Web

By on October 20, 2011 in Charity, Events

Here at Blacknight we’re strong believers in supporting interesting and / or worthy causes. We’ve sponsored plenty of events over the last few years and hopefully we’ll continue to be able to do so. Personally I love the concept behind 24 The Web. It’s so simple and incredible, so when I heard that Stewart was [...]

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Woohooo! We Won A Social Media Award!!

By on May 27, 2011 in Blacknight, Events

Last night a couple of us were in Dublin’s Mansion House for the Bord Gais Social Media Awards 2011. The event, which was run by Mulley Communications, was very well organised with live music and a nice drinks reception before the official part of the evening began. As usual the MC was Mr Rick O’Shea [...]

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BTW February 3rd

By on January 9, 2011 in Events

If you’re going to be in Dublin on February 3rd why not head over to the BTW meetup? It’s a 100% free event for just about anyone! BTW stands for “blogger twitter whatever” and is the brainchild of Jason Roe, a developer based in Dublin. Why do I mention this? Well we’re sponsoring the event, [...]

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Irish Web Awards 2010

Best Of Luck To Irish Web Awards Finalists

By on October 16, 2010 in Events

The Realex Payments Irish Web Awards are on tonight in Dublin’s Mansion House. Over the past few weeks there have been nominations, long lists, shortlists and now the only ones left are the finalists! We are honoured and delighted to be in the list of finalists under three different categories (social media, SME and new [...]

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Say Hello To Blackberry and Sharepoint

By on September 10, 2010 in business, Email, Hosting

Our technical team love playing with new “toys”, so rolling out new services on our business email hosting platform was something they were “itching” to get stuck into. We are now offering two optional upgrades for our business email hosting clients (on Microsoft Exchange): SharePoint Blackberry Enterprise If you already have a hosted Exchange plan [...]

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