Most of the world’s richest men and women were school drop outs

Steve Jobs
Henry Ford
Walt Disney
Bill Gates
Thomas Edison
Richard Branson
Lawrence J. Ellison
Michael Dell
Paul Allen
Ingvar Kamprad
Mark Zuckerberg
Ted Turner
Howard Hughes

What do all of these have in common well they not one of these were asked to produce a degree to achieve success, enough said.

I am addicted to Weetabix

Ever since I have been made redundant I have become addicted to these biscuits of joy they call on da street Weetabix.

It started out way back when I was a kid but unfortunately my dark past has caught up with me and I am a full blown Weetabix addict. It kinda snook up on me cause I kept telling myself I could quit anytime but anytime has come and gone and now I am worried. It used to be a mid week pick me up or on a Saturday evening before going down to the pub. However lately it's almost every morning and sometime I have a second bowl, when this started to happen I decided I need more than will power to kick this thing hence my out cry.

I need urgent support, so if anyone has a help line number please tell and no piss taking this is very much a serious matter !!!!

Thanks

And The Winner Is.........

And the winner is Manchester United again !!!

No this is not going to be a blog post on football but the global brand of football, and of course Man U are king pins in this arena.

I am a loyal Liverpool fan and have been since the 80's the last time we won the league.
So the intent behind my blog is to point out that football is no longer just played on the pitch over 90 minutes there is more to it than that.

As a global brand Man United are streets ahead of many clubs not just in England but clubs through out the world. Manchester's appeal is very much global.Although Man U's appeal is very much global their local support is less so, because if you ever speak to a football fan from Manchester they will probably say the support Man City rather than ManU. So my point is there is a greater chance of encountering a Man U fan on the streets of Nairobi rather than cobblestones of Manchester itself.

Also the rise of Man U and the fall of Liverpool happened at roughly the same time which was the dawn of Rupert Murdoch's Sky Sports involvement in English top flight football, which is very coincidental indeed says the jealous pool fan :o

Thoughts anyone ?

Why The Global Community Truly Is a Community........

Why The Global Community Truly Is a Community........

The Global community is now more than ever a community and I suppose this is best exemplified through the social platforms of Facebook and Twitter. Their power and influence in today’s world is immense as a Facebook comment or a Tweet can shoot around the planet in seconds.

The Global community or Globalization has been here for sometime but we are now seeing the sharp end of this phenomenon.

“Globalization as a concept refers to both the compression of the world and intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole …. both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole”

Roland Robertson in 1992

Personally there is no doubt live in a Global community, especially when I myself have been approached by recruiters in Australia, Holland and the US pitching roles.

Last century aviation made our world smaller but this century our small world has reduced again and we are now more than ever a community in the true sense. We are a highly mobile digital community; we are now discussing the results of last night’s match with a cousin living in a time zone 9 hours ahead.

No longer are we leaning over our garden walls to exchange essential neighbourly advice aka gossip, but we are now doing it on a larger scale and should I dare say at times on a global scale.

My Media Exposure Breakdown.........

 

My Media Exposure Breakdown.........

I suppose when it comes to my exposure of thevarious mass media tools I never really placed much thought into it, had noreason to. So when I sat down to chart my media consumption, I soon realisethat I've definitely switched my attention away from my first love that beingTV - and we used to be so inseparable :'(

I now realise that TV has been relegated to mythird most used media channel, and also that mobile and standard internetcontent are the current objects of my affections.

From what I hear I believe that more and morepeople are not exactly switching off their TV but it's draw has weakened overthe past 10 years. More and more people are sitting at home on the couch withtheir Smartphone and their über slick tablet while watching TV. It's these are thenew consumer habits that marketeers need to understand in order to target somemarket sectors.

Blogging on the go

Blog here, blog there, blogging everywhere I am blogging right now en route to Dublin after seeing Niall Harbison of Simply Zesty speak. In Niall's words the world has become flat which I hope was his way of expressing how technology has made the globe a much smaller place :)
I suppose Gutenberg himself could not have predicted how our tools for communicating would evolve.

Technology has influenced how we communicate and how often we do it whether it's last nights ill conceived drunken text to an inappropriate Facebook comment we have probably all been guilty at one time or another.

Our language has also changed as a result of our technology prime example was character limits on SMS msgs. Thse wrds got shortened n order 2 fit character limitations of old mobile phones & not because the majority of users were 2 lazy to type in the full and proper word. Just when technology started allowing us more freedom in terms of character limits ...... along comes Twitter :/

Anyway that's as much as I am willing to talk about on this as its no longer flowing so I am gonna knock this topic on the head before I nod off myself.

My Experience in Dundalk Institute of Technology

My Experience in Dundalk Institute of Technology..............

Great, c'est génial, klasse, great fun so far. I am genuinely enjoying it from classmates to lecturers to class content.

Ok I could be finicky and point out flaws, but show me a place of learning that is flawless because I probably won't wanna enrol there.

So far so good as goes my college experience all be it the low fat version as it's only two days per week. One thing of note from my last stint on the "inside" I now don't feel comfortable turning up for lectures half cut and wtf I completely missed rag week how the hell did that happen. Yeah you are right I must act my age; no rag week, no mid week hangovers, no microwave pizzas....... we will just leave it at that for now :)

As DIT's go it has a familiar feel, as I have seen the corridors of one or two well three to be exact. The college campus may remain pretty much the same but the tech has changed. In the college canteen iRiver's have been replaced by iTouches, students discuss their legally downloaded music collections and don't start me on the cost of a pint.

I suppose my true experience of college life has been one of nostalgia, one of life that once was and is now part of life again, who would have thought it. This time round I plan to do things differently. I really never had too much problems engaging with actual college work my problem is staying engaged. Foolishly I used to think some people were naturally gifted at things and if it didn't flow it simply wouldn't.

So just to wrap up this post I will raise a glass tonight in recognition of DkIT and everyone who is part of the Springboard course, here's to us and our future and as clichéd as it sounds but it's in our hands  - Sláinte, Kippis Terveydeksi, Santé, Salute.