Join Johnson Melloh as they share how you can eliminate a significant portion, if not all, of the costs associated with domestic hot water in your buildings. Their system is ideal for use with bathrooms and light duty kitchens often found in the buildings you manage. Businesses are already reaping the benefits of solar hot water solutions in Indiana and the Sun Bandit solar hot water solution is available for everybody to have their piece of clean, natural energy independence.
We enourage you to attend and bring your maintenance engineers as well. There will be a Q&A session so you can ask questions you have about any upcoming projects. Breakfast is provided!
So, in case you don’t quite know what’s happening here, this Lent, rather than depriving our selves of certain luxuries at Irish Atlantic Salt, we decided to take something on! I am putting myself out there and rising to the challenge of making a homemade sweet or savoury treat for the Irish Atlantic Salt crew each week throughout Lent.
This week, I was inspired by another food blogger’s recipe for what can only be described as a little piece of heaven! Dermie O’ Sullivan writes the brilliant blog, Gas Mark Seven (@Gas_mark_seven) and has an eye for quality ingredients. Dermie’s appreciation for artisan products is refreshing and his remarkable zeal for food comes to life in his fabulous recipes.
Dermie’s recipe for Double Chocolate Salted Brownies caught my eye recently and I confidently included it on my ever increasing ‘To Do’ list. Things at Irish Atlantic Salt are hectic at the moment, we have so much going on and the crew are up to high dough! Correct me if I’m wrong, but the obvious solution to stress is chocolate, right?
I must say, the sea salt flakes in these brownies worked so well. Dark chocolate and sea salt really is an amazing combination, the bitter sweet flavour of the dark chocolate with subtle salty tones is fabulous. West Cork chocolatiers, Milseán Chocolate (@milseanchocolat) combine their dark chocolate with our Irish Atlantic Salt flakes for one of their delicious bars – now that is something to put on your ‘To-Do’ list!
Dermie’s recipe was quite easy (much to my delight) and mainly involved four heavenly ingredients: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, caster sugar and butter. Calorie counters, look away now!
2. Melt the butter, dark chocolate and milk chocolate in a Pyrex bowl over a low heat. Stir well until all the mixture is melted.
3. Mix the eggs, vanilla and sugar well on a medium speed for exactly 10mins until light and velvety.
4. Gently fold in the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture with a spatula, placing the spatula deep down the end of the bowl to incorporate all the chocolate.
5. Pour the mixture evenly onto your lined baking tray and sprinkle the sea-salt flakes evenly over the top of the entire mixture and place gently into the oven.
6. Bake for 50mins. The brownies are done when you stick a skewer into the centre and it comes out clean. If you wish, melt some white chocolate and drizzle it over the top for a stylish topping. Place the tray very gently onto an even surface in your larder for 4-6 hours or over night.
7. Cut the brownies in the tray as the top of the brownies will crack if you remove them from the tray.
Gourmet Irish sea salt flakes lovingly handcrafted on the Beara Peninsula, County Cork, by Michael and Aileen O'Neill.	
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As you may have guessed, the March is our favorite month here in Dublin, Ohio! Our city is home to one of the best St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the country, and we strive to cultivate Irish attitude year-round. In fact, Dublin Convention & Visitors Bureau recently partnered with the City of Dublin and local businesses to offer a calendar of unique Irish experiences, and many of them are being held this week! Here’s a quick run-down:
Irish Manor House Dinner Demo & Irish Pub Experience at Whole Foods Market Columbus-Dublin (1 p.m. / 5 p.m.)
See how to prepare an Irish dinner that is inspired by products of the Irish countryside and the heritage of the Manor Houses.
Learn about some of Ireland’s most famous crosses like Clonmacnoise’s Cross of the Scriptures and Monasterboice’s Muirdach’s Cross. Hear some stories about how these crosses might have affected the lives of people in Ireland’s age of saints and scholars. Materials will be provided for those who would like to create stories of their own on paper crosses. *$5 registration covers take-home gift.
Enjoy a special adult prix-fixe menu ($20) that includes several Irish-inspired items (Ham and potato soup, Shamrock Salmon with Dublin Sauce, Bailey’s Irish Cream cheesecake, ect.), a children’s buffet, drink specials, musical entertainment and more! *10% of all food/beverage revenue generated from this event will go the Dublin City Schools Dodgeball Tournament to Benefit Dublin Special Olympics
RT @DublinArts: Dave Zuchowski from the Charleston Gazette-Mail recently paid a visit to Dublin, Ohio. Take a look at his article detailing… 40 minutes ago
Digital marketing is not about flamboyance, the geeks will get the job done, insights by Randall Glick, Digital Skills Academy – Irish Tech News
Digital marketing is not about flamboyance, the geeks will get the job done, insights by Randall Glick, Digital Skills Academy
Latest great guest blog post, an in-depth interview with Randal Glick, Digital Marketing lecturer at the Digital Skills Academy
I was an American fire-fighter in the US Air Force before I came to Ireland 18 years ago. Since then I have been working in tech-based companies. I joined Gateway in ‘98, and then joined an internet startup in 2001. I’ve been working in the online business ever since then.
I am the lecturer for Digital Marketing. I am a content manufacturer, not just presenting the lectures, but also creating the content for them. I also mentor the industry projects and help with their digital strategies. I started in 2012, and have been full time since September 2015.
The smart answer would be that digital marketing is marketing for people who don’t do marketing. The serious answer is that it is about getting your message across all the different channels that are available to you.
Absolutely. Yes, things have changed a lot in this time. You have to keep up with the changing trends. SEO (search engine optimisation) has changed. I’ve always said you need to not be over-focussed on gaming the SEO, rather better to do things properly. This is now understood more widely. It is still important to keep up to date with the search engine algorithms, Google and the others, to understand why they are changing, but even better is to create good content, and distribute it effectively and to the right target audience.
With the emergence of social media, you now specialise into specific aspects depending on your audience. Areas like PPC (pay per click) and SEO are now separate, and content marketing too. Therefore it is important to focus and specialise on which areas are most relevant to you. Though digital marketing segmented into these different areas, it is also important to have a good overview of how all of them work and how they can help to achieve your goals.
Most of the digital marketing we teach is about inbound marketing in some form or other. We tie it all into web 2.0, and explain how it is not about broadcasting messaging out, rather the goal is to get the end-user involved, to get them advocating the value of the product/brand you are trying to promote.
Lots are now working in startup roles. The Digital Skills Academy works with many industry partners, getting great real-world experience, consequently, they often go on to work for them afterwards.
My students have gone on to be social activists, bloggers, copywriters, digital marketing managers while other graduates are have become the head of digital at various companies internationally. Our students work in groups and, much like ‘The Apprentice’, the teams have a specific role to complete for industry partners. To achieve this they don’t have to be down the road to supply a service. Many of our students are based all around Ireland, and even further afield now with the new international BSc (Honours) Degree in Digital Technology, Design and Innovation programme.
One of our industry partners is in Australia. This is a good learning experience for the students, the challenge of working remotely, and with clients on different time zones. It’s been possible to do virtual meetings for about 8 years, but it is so much easier now. The improvement in the technology has facilitated this.
It’s not about flamboyance, it’s about logical thinking and data analysis. The geeks will get the job done. You do need to create good content, but you also need to know why you are creating it, and what the business purpose is.
Designers also need to understand that as well as making something look good, it must also work and serve the overall goal.
Yes, I agree. In the future people will look back and ask why we distinguished between online and offline. Soon it won’t be like this, online has as much relevance for your marketing strategy. However, it is not just about online. Amazon has opened up a shop in California to have a physical presence. This shows that even for online companies they understand there is a value to have a physical presence too, people still do business with people.
It might sound unoriginal but content will still always be vital. Written content, video, imagery, sound, these are still what people want, and will remain important.
Mobile is now finally big and will only grow and grow now that there is the bandwidth to deliver the content that people want.
Analytics is really important too, it is about the data. It is really important to know what you’re doing. It’s not been widely celebrated yet, it’s not been seen as exciting, but since 2002 the companies that have grown were those who were using their data analytics to gain competitive insights.
I recommend Linkedin to our students for their business profile and to make useful contacts. Twitter, can be very beneficial, especially for the writers and content creators. It offers a huge engine for contacts with great potential for getting work. It can be a social mistake if you tweet inappropriately, but used for business it is a great tool. Facebook, has a lot going for it, but it needs to decide if they are social network or business. We discuss with our students how to better understand their settings to manage what is and is not publically viewable.
We do, and we show students how to set up google alerts for your own name. To see what’s coming up. It’s always interesting to see what comes up too, to check to see what is being said about you. It also helps our students to see how online pr works
I’m still very interested in everything to do with online – search. Rand Fishkin, Matt Cutts are great. I also get my news from Linkedin, mostly geared to search, the Hubspot blog also has great articles.
AR (augmented reality) / VR (virtual reality) – how soon will this be widely used in digital marketing?
The increased bandwidth is now making it much more possible. This will be the big influence on what is possible.
There are games available right now, using AR, doing advertising, with ingame tools and equipment. It’s marketing in an online environment, not marketing as such, but branding. You will see a lot more of this coming. We all like games, and games will drive us to do things online. Mobile apps are bringing a blurring of the line between digital marketing and the physical world. You are seeing some virtual products advertised on tv, again demonstrating how the lines are crossing between digital marketing and marketing.
It’s important to understand that marketing will be about talking about products and making sure this conversation takes place across many channels. It doesn’t make sense not to have a cross channel strategy now. Some companies don’t want to go mobile because they don’t realise their users will try and view it via mobile. Those companies that are in that space will reap the benefits.