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TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY is getting his clicks on tomorrow by taking part in the first webcasted meeting from the Department of the Taoiseach.
The meeting is a consultation with ten businesses from across Ireland who either trade online – or want to – or use online to promote their goods or services.
Included in those businesses is online marketplace Adverts.ie (part of the Distilled Media Group), to Doyle’s The Butchers – about to go live with a new site – to auto parts and accessories online shop Mick’s Garage.
The event is part of the overall government jobs strategy, a spokesperson for the Department of the Taoiseach told TheJournal.ie this afternoon. The idea behind the webcast – which can be viewed at merrionstreet.ie from noon tomorrow – is to make the conversation public and to invite debate to inform jobs and digital strategies at the highest level of governance.
The Taoiseach said: “In broadcasting online, I want to start as broad a conversation as possible about the progress we can make in this area and help create more jobs in this country.”
To this end, the Department is pushing a #retailroundtable hashtag that they hope interested tweeters might use tomorrow to give feedback on what they hear in the webcast session.
The Taoiseach also noted today that Ireland spent €3.7bn online last year but that 70 per cent of that went to retailers abroad. He said:
Trading online offers a real and growing opportunity for Irish retailers to market their goods and services more broadly, make more sales both here and abroad, and retain or grow staff numbers. WE are taking steps, such as the new Trading Online Voucher Scheme to encourage more retailers to get selling online and we need to see what more needs to be done.I want to hear directly from retailers their experiences and needs, which is such a valuable part of getting our supports right.
Click back into TheJournal.ie tomorrow morning at 7.45am for a further dive into the challenges facing companies hoping to grow their business online.
The other companies involved in tomorrow’s podcast include fashion store The Whyte House, wineonline.ie, Vibes & Scribes books and crafts company, The Happy Pear greengrocers, Lifestyle Sports, Gutterman, a rainwater systems business, and training and coaching service Fresh Thinking.
Journal Media Ltd has shareholders – Brian and Eamonn Fallon – in common with Distilled Media Group.
Now THIS is how you sell a used car>
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Watch for the ear piece as he’s fed the one liners.
How come you have no story today about all the online transactions that AIB / BOI are not authorising because of an unprecedented amount of online fraud.
Brendan Moran
IT Consultant
Time for him to go the Muppet
In his world he has had a major successful time in office.
It would be great to have a proper broadband infrastructure nationwide, which would help build business around the country and not just focus all our infrastructure on dublin
Great idea to be honest. I won’t knock a good idea for the sake of it. But the tag they chose, #retailroundtable ? 17 of the allowable 140 characters allowed in a tweet. Could they not have chosen something shorter and snappier?
Even #RetailRT would do. With the added connotations that “RT” might inspire.
I think the journal should ask for suggestions for a hash tag. Collect the 10 most popular and have a poll in the morning. Announce a winner an hour before the webcast starts. If they decide to use the journal readers favourite, we’ll know they have some understanding of the technology their using. If the persist with the other mouthful, well, not very nimble or agile is it
I promise you if he thinks Vinb is someone to fear wait till he’s asked Qs from ppl online. It’ll never happen again so enjoy it while it lasts. Watch FG twitterati in full force tomorrow.
Can’t wait.
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What will you, a person who always provides lots of solutions and ideas in your posts, be bringing to the table?
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Looks like a great start to shop on line for Irish business, Mick’s Garage is off to a flying start with a picture of a car baring an English reg. Come on Mick wake up.
Would be great to have this discussion with charities, social organisations, public servants etc
I can just see the headline in tomorrow’s paper “The Shites of the round table “…..
If Kenny and the other businesses have been briefed for this pr exercise there might not be a need for his earpiece.
And this is interesting why?
One thing I want to say to Enda…He was elected by the Irish FOR the Irish…not to be an arse kisser to Germany..You let your people down and you should be very ashamed of yourself.You may be some sort of a false hero to Europe..but you are a disgrace to the Irish.Shame on you and your lying bunch of amateur politicans..You ALL need to live like the way you have made all of the decent Irish have been made live..by you.
Jail is too good for you..
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