This day one week ago I finally was able to unite a trophy with its rightful owner after a month on my mantelpiece. In February I accepted the Digital Media Award (DMA) for Best in Blogging on behalf of Ronan Lyons. This was a somewhat unusual task as you see I don’t actually know Ronan, [...]
Villa81 has been nominated in the Best Technology Blog (sponsored by BitBuzz) and Best Blog by a Journalist (sponsored by BVisible) categories at the 2010 Irish Blog Awards. On behalf of the rest of the crew here at Villa81 I’d like to thank all our visitors for their support over this, the first year of [...]
The final of the iQ Prize was held in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin on Wednesday night. The competition, run by iQ Content, recognised good Irish internet business ideas. A top prize of €10,000 was on offer, as well as an audience prize of €1,000.
Blandford is rolling out Decisionsforheroes.com internationally and is currently investigating potential [...]
Villa81’s Emmet Ryan won the Journalist Award at the Net Visionary awards on Thursday night. All of us here at Villa81 would like to thank the global community that made this possible.
We could offend the 25 odd nationalities that voted for Emmet by trying to thank them in their native tongues but instead we’re going [...]
Villa81 was represented by its Technical Editor, Ciaran Ruane, at the 2009 Digital Media Awards earlier this month. Ciaran presented the award for Best Business to Consumer Innovation to Zara Sheerin of agency.com for its work on the Change.ie campaign.
Emmet Ryan, Villa81’s Editor, was a judge in the competition. Emmet judged the Business to Consumer [...]