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IRISH INTERNET ASSOCIATION (IIA) STATEMENT

A PLEA to Irish people planning holidays this year to ‘Occupy Ireland’’ rather than holiday abroad is being made in an effort to boost the Irish tourism industry.

Jerry Kennelly announced as Overall Net Visionary 2011 by Irish Internet Association

- 14 Companies Announced as Winners in the Dot ie Net Visionary Awards –

Accreate Rocks the Rookies

- Unique sponsorship for Dot ie Net Visionary Awards -

Minister for Communications, Pat. Rabbitte T.D., today announced he is making €1,600,000 available in 2011 under theBenefIT 3 Grant scheme.  The scheme will help provide basic internet related skills training to 30,000 people across the country who are least likely to engage with and use the internet of their own accord.

PyCon Ireland 2011

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 30, 2011 - Ireland's 2nd Python conference, PyCon Ireland, will be held in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel on Saturday 8th October and Sunday 9th October.

The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, TD, together with his colleague Mr. Fergus O’Dowd, TD, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with responsibility for NewERA, will today convene a high level task force on the roll out of high speed broadband in Ireland.

 Minister launches call for proposals for prestigious event to showcase Irish expertise and creativity

It is always a good time to become an Irish Internet Association Member Company. Our membership fees are the most competitive amongst national business associations and have remained the same for the last five years.

Tonight, Dylan Collins was announced as the IIA and Enterprise Ireland Overall Net Visionary 2010.

• IIA Social Media Working Group produce a guide for Irish businesses
• Guide includes information about existing Irish business bloggers, the fundamentals of blogging and how to get started with your own blog.
• Paddy Power Trader and Puddleducks share their business blogging experience at launch breakfast
• Guide produced using collaborative principals of social media

The Ideas Campaign is an independent voluntary initiative designed to capture people's ideas for stimulating Ireland's economy.

14 August 2008, Dublin: The Irish Internet Association (IIA) welcomes nominations for the 2008 Net Visionary Awards. This annual awards ceremony seeks to celebrate the best in Irish business on the internet. Nominations are welcome in 18categories including four new categories.

In advance of their national congress in the Croke Park Conference Centre on Thursday May 15th 2008 which focuses on "Beyond Websites: Business uses of social networking and new media" the Irish Internet Association (IIA) surveyed their ezine readers about their uses, budgets and attitudes to social networking and new media.

Take part in our survey and be in with the chance to win an IPod Touch kindly sponsored by Ciall.com

BalconyTV.Com on the Shortlist for "Oscars of the Internet"

Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at The 12th Annual Webby Awards in New York City on June 9th.