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Third Thursday IOM: December 2009
Image via Wikipedia Contrary to our original plan, we’ve decided to have a Third Thursday meetup this month in a similar fashion to our usual ones. It’s an informal meet-up at Paparazzi at 12:30 on Thursday 17th December, for a piz...
Windows 7 theme – Isle of Man themepack
If you’re running Windows 7, here’s a great new themepack that uses a number of great imagery from the Isle of Man. I got the idea while looking at Microsoft’s theme page and noticed that although they had themes for a number of dif...
Third Thursday – November 09
Fancy coming out and meeting a bunch of people you know online? Well, that’s what Third Thursday is here in the Isle of Man, where a group of people interested in Social Media meet up for a pizza, a beer, or whatever your poison may be. ItR...
Isle of Man – Chief Minister at Junior Chamber
There’s an interesting event being organised this week by the Junior Chamber of Commerce; a briefing and Q&A session with Tony Brown the Chief Minister, with a focus on the recent VAT announcement and the impact on the Isle of Man’s f...
Isle of Man Event: Focus on your soft skills
The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is organising an event on the 19th of October called: Focus on your Soft Skills. Here’s a quick snippet about the shape of the event: The first session will start at 5.30pm and is entitled Understanding and ap...
Third Thursday: August 09
If you’re based in the Isle of Man, you probably know what this post is about. Every Third Thursday of every month, the Isle of Man Social Media pundits meet up for lunch. Well, you don’t need to be an expert to come and join us, it’...
Introduction to PR
Are you looking to learn about PR, what it’s all about and how it can help you and your organisation? Well, StrivePR in the Isle of Man are leading a two-day seminar targeted as an Introduction to PR. It aims at helping you understanding what P...
MAX comes to town – That’s #gfi’s mascot
GFI Software are running a competition to entertain their 5000+ Twitter followers and maybe get some more, with consists of people suggesting some great places they can hang out in their home town and potentially taking Max, GFI’s mascot with t...
Third Thursday – Social Media Club – 16th July 2009
This Thursday is the Third Thursday of the month and we all know what that means. It’s time for all us Social Media Aficionados to get together over lunch to discuss What’s Hot and What’s Not, what’s “Wired, Tired or Fir...
Not all Injections are Painful
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is organising a talk tomorrow focusing on Dependency Injection as a coding technique. Here’s some more detail about the event: Our next event is about a programming techniq...
Third Thursday June 08 : Social Media Club in the Isle of Man
photo credit: Many Cats 4 Me Are you interested in Social Media and based in the Isle of Man? If so, you just have to join us for lunch next Thursday. Whether you’re interested in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Friendfeed...
Isle of Man: devG – C# language features
If you’re a .Net developer here’s an event you mustn’t miss here on the Isle of Man. It’s a talk about the new language features of C# and here are the details: Mike has agreed to share is knowledge with us, and will be giving...
eDemocracy in the Isle of Man
I never took the opportunity to write down my thoughts following Simon Collister’s presentation on eDemocracy in the Isle of Man last month. It was a great talk and sparked more than a little debate within the participants. I think it was a ver...
Manic Thursday in the Isle of Man
I’ve got a “fun day” packed with events tomorrow, which may be of interest to some of my readers; well, if you’re based in the the Isle of Man anyway. Social Media Club (Third Thursday) - There’s a whopper of an event f...
DevG - The first meeting
photo credit: justonlysteve I was lucky enough to be able to attend the first ever meeting of DevG, a DEVeloper Group here in the Isle of Man that looks to bring together developers from different backgrounds in a community event where people can sh...
Dev Wednesday in the Isle of Man
My mate Zak is looking to try and set up a Developer Group here in the Isle of Man. I was speaking to him a couple of days ago, and it’s still uncertain what shape it’s going to take; which is excellent news for anyone wanted to get involved. It ...
Pushing Government content through Social channels
I’ve been doing some work recently here in the Isle of Man exploring a number of different options around pushing Government content through Social media channels. The reasons behind this are two-fold, primarily to distribute content from Gover...
ThirdThursday: IoM Social Media Club - 16 April 2009
Are you doing anything next Thursday? If not, you’re welcome to join us at the next “Manx Third Thursday”, a gathering for social media enthusiasts in the Isle of Man. Here’s how Sherrilynne describes it: Basically, we are bu...
Our project in the news
How cool is this, our project got a mention in this week’s Computer Weekly. It was only an inset in a bigger article about SOA, but it feels great to get some recognition. Here’s how the inset read: On a budget he jokes is “less tha...
Social Media events in the Isle of Man - 19th March
If you’re into Facebook, Twitter, blogging, podcasting and other social media, there are a couple of meetups tomorrow you might be interested in: 12:30 Paprazzi: IOM Third Thursday social media club: More on Strive’s website 18:00 Clar...
Come learn all about Podcasting
The Isle of Man section of the BCS is organising a talk this Thursday (19th March) about Podcasting. Here’s the blurb: This talk is aimed at demonstrating the technology and toolsets behind podcasting and to give an opportunity to learn more ab...
Third Thursday IOM: March 2009
Next Thursday 19th March will be the Third Thursday of the month, and as with all Third Thursday’s, we’re having a social event for people interested in social media here in the Isle of Man. Last month was a pretty amazing event with a sp...
Isle of Man Social Media Club - February 2009
In case you didn’t know about it, this Thursday, the Isle of Man Social Media Club is organising a great meeting open to all social media aficionados on the Island. Here are the details: February’s meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club...
Isle of Man Online Services on a Wii
I always find it fascinating to see people using services we deploy in new and imaginative manners. Well, today I got some photos of what the Isle of Man Government Online Services look like on a Nintendo Wii and it was great to see that the site per...
Unit Testing, Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development
The Isle of Man section of the BCS is holding a talk next Tuesday on Unit Testing, BDD and TDD which should be interesting for anyone involved in software design. Here’s the blurb from the BCS website: An introduction to a number of development...
Top 5 Manx Tweeters
I was looking at Twitter Grader to see who the Twitter Elite in the Isle of Man are and these are the top 5 at the moment: # Tweet Them Grade Bio Location 1 OwenC Tweet 96.7 Your friendly neighborhood geek Isle of Man 2 sherrilynne Twe...
BCS Events: Christmas Quiz Night
Just wanted to let my Manx readers about the BCS Christmas Quiz which is happening next Tuesday. Here are the details: Our next event is the BCS Christmas Quiz. We have had this for the last few years and it has proven to be a great success for our m...
Doing business in the Isle of Man
I came across a great write-up in the FT today entitled: Doing Business in the Isle of Man. it’s an 8-page special report that takes a look at a number of different aspects of the Isle of Man, ranging from the recent turmoil in the Financial Ma...
OneMann gets short-listed for Awards for Excellence
It was great to hear that the project I’m working on has been short-listed for this year’s “Awards for Excellence” organised by Isle of Man Newspapers. It’s a set of awards given to people, companies and projects who hav...
Isle of Man BCS Event: ManxWiki
The Isle of Man Section of the BCS are holding a talk next week on a local initiative to build a Wiki dedicated to the Isle of Man: ManxWiki. Here’s what the talk will be about. Here’s a bit more about ManxWiki: Wikis are information webs...
