Keith Shirley

And now for something different than my normal technology posts. The event below is being organised by my wife. A flyer with the info can be downloaded at

www.sylviashirley.com/downloads/Dalley-June2010.pdf

Enjoy 2 Wonderful Events

at the Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow

with Stephan Dalley

A World Class Healer from Germany

Presentation – Friday 9th of July at 7:30pm
A talk about the Spiritual World and a Group Healing. Learn about the
spiritual world through Stephan‘s 17 years of practical experience.
(Please bring photos of people to be healed if they can’t come).
Fee € 25.00 to be paid at the door.

Seminar – Saturday 10th of July at 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Intuitive Healing Day
„Feel, Perceive, Heal“ is the motto for this fascinating day where you
can learn about and experience the world of healing.
The content of the day seminar: Spiritual Healing with practical examples:
How do I become a tool of God, Opening of the heart for healing
Intuitive healing, Distance healing, Imagination, Body, Soul and Spirit
Practice: Healing in groups of 2
And a lot more…
Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a cushion, a rug as well as a pad and pen
The Seminar takes place in the Mount Wolseley Hotel
Fee € 120.00 to be paid at the door
Bookings: info@sylviashirley.com / 059 91 353 73

Stephan Dalley: registered Healer at the DGH, Germany, Instructor at the SHP
Ancestor conciliation / Past life work/ Aura Treatments
www.dalley-energie.de

Peter Heary (aka. CroppyBoy1798) has made a new video of Carlow Past and present available online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdtJTNcrok

For those of you that did not see them in the previous post – he has old photos of Carlow and takes new photos from the same place and angle. In the video he merges the two so you can see how things have changed.

I never seem to manage to guess where the old photos are taken. The videos are well worth a look – and take a lot of time I’m sure.

Yesterday we ran our second Bizcamp – this time in the Guiness storehouse. The event was a great success and I’d like to say a big thanks to all the speakers for donating their time and of course the sponsors for their money.

At one of the last timeslots of the day we had our own session to discuss what we did to organise the event and to show where the money went. We had some very useful feedback from the attandents as well. Normally at these events I’d have a big list of things that I think could have been done better – this time it’s more a list of things we can do to make it a little different.

Of the 499 registered attendants we had 291 people turn up. We probably had a few more come in without registering. Feedback from a number of people was that for a free event this was good – that a 50% dropoff rate is normal. I find it disappointing – and really unfair if people registered with no real intention of going. It basically meant

• We had loads of people that couldn’t come because we had closed the registration.
• We had 120 portions of lunch wasted – money that could have been used for other things
• It reduces the effectiveness of the event

At the review meeting suggestions were made that a number of people registered only with the intention of having their name listed. I suspect they are right. It means that we will have to limit what people can write – and will have extra work next time to try and verify registrations. Keep in mind that this work is voluntary.

We also had one no-show for the speakers – that’s twice as annoying. We had circa 70 people who wished to speak and only 40 time slots. Considering the talk was on time management there were a lot of jokes about the speaker not having the time etc etc. A phone call would have been nice – we could have slotted someone else in or at least warning the attendees so they could go to other sessions.

I hope this post is not coming across as a whinge. The event went really well – we had great comments from people on how much they learned and the contacts they made. I’m certainly glad I did it.

Anyone that has spent more than 5 minutes with me has probably had to listen to me talk about the house we’re building and the planning that has gone into it.

In order to support our new heavenly home – we’re selling the heavenly home where we currently live. It’s a 3 year old (but in showhouse condition) 3 bedroom semi-detached house in Sandhills in Carlow.

As all the “for sale” websites only show a few boring pictures I’ve started a site purely to give people a better idea of what the house is like – and why we loved living there so much. It will be updated (hopefully daily) with articles on what you can expect in the house, in the estate and local area and things you can do when you want to get out for a while.

If you know anyone that is interested then please ask them to have a look at www.73sandhills.ie and to contact us if they would like a closer look.

I received this today via the IIA Newsletter:

IIA establish an International Strategy Working Group
Members sought for working group
The IIA have set up an International Strategy Working Group. The aim of the International Strategy Working Group is to assist Irish businesses in increasing revenues from Overseas markets through better use of the Internet.

This working group aims to achieve this by providing support to businesses on how they can achieve increased global reach, increased global market share and increased global revenues.

Topics covered by with group will include Localisation, Translation Services, Foreign Payment Methods, Legal and Taxation issues in other Jurisdictions.

If you are a member of the IIA and would like to work with the group please email Roseanne at members@iia.ie. 

Read more about the working group on IIA.ie  

From my own work with the Social Media Working Group I can warn you that it can involve a lot of work. It can also be very rewarding. For me personally it has rounded out my level of knowledge and exposed me to areas of Social Media that I normally don’t work with.

If you are in a business that has the potential for internationalisation (or of course if you have already done the legwork) then get in contact with Roseanne to find out who else is involved and how your experiences may fit in.

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