Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

The IPA is running a day seminar on Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era on the 24 October. One of the initiatives being discussed at the event is the ‘Your Mental Health’ campaign which has an interesting Bebo profile, where young people can leave anonymous feedback.

Another event worth attending is the National Marketing Conference (hattip to Paul Dervan for flagging it.) Edelman Europe CEO, David Brain, is attending. The person I’d love to hear at the conference though is guest speaker John Grant. If you work in Marketing and PR, you need to own all his books.

Paul Dervan also has an interesting post as part of the Social Media Marketing Best Practice meme:

Coming from the client-side of marketing, within a large marketing team, my suggestion would be this:

’To truly get the most from social media, brands need to change the structure of their marketing team.’

Damien Mulley points out that “RTÉ is running a competition for a new Web TV series and the public decide who the winner will be. Pilots are sought and then the public votes on the best one and it becomes a web TV series.” Details on how to participate are on Damien’s post.

Also via Damien - public engagement 2.0. Eamonn Ryan, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, ran a half day forum on Next Generation Broadband, reaching out on Boards.ie to announce it. Interesting mix of regular punters and civil servants led to an interesting event if Damien’s event report is anything to go by.

Neil Patel has a list of 51 business cards which would make you look twice (hattip to Stephen Davies)

Dave Neville from First Tuesday was chatting to me about Zircol, a blogging platform similar to Ning, which allows users to build a social network around your own blog.

The Cleraun Media Conference takes place this weekend. A pdf conference brochure is available to download.

Make sure to watch Sarah Haskins’ hilarious series of videos of Target Women videos (Hattip to Una Mullally)

Seriously cool - NASA astronauts answer questions from on board the International Space Station (Via Boing Boing)