Cookie Web Consulting » twitter http://cookieweb.ie Beautiful Functional Affordable Websites Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:08:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Ingenious Website for Podcast Tours http://cookieweb.ie/2010/10/ingenious-website-for-podcast-tours/ http://cookieweb.ie/2010/10/ingenious-website-for-podcast-tours/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:54:32 +0000 Heidi Jermyn http://cookieweb.ie/?p=376 Cookie Web recently launched is the Ingenious Ireland website. Ingenious Ireland offers unique and highly interesting podcast tours of spots around Ireland such as ‘Hill of Tara’ and ‘Dublin on the Rocks’. Visitors can browse the website, listen to podcast excerpts and then purchase and download the tours to their mp3 enabled device.

Ingenious Ireland - Guided Podcast Tours

Ingenious Ireland - Guided Podcast Tours

The website is developed in WordPress of course and we’re using an ingenious number of plugins to enable people to view the products and complete the purchase. The podcast pages are very informative, featuring a great little image gallery, resource links, download excerpt button and shopping cart facility. Check out and definitely listen to the ‘Hill of Tara’ podcast tour.

The brains and the voice behind the Ingenious Ireland podcast tours is science and technology journalist Mary Mulvihill. She wrote the award winning book Ingenious Ireland with a new edition coming in 2011. Be sure to check out the event listings on the website for upcoming public talks and tours such as ‘Lab Coats and Lace‘.

Socially Ingenious

Mary is an dab hand at blogging (see her own http://marymulvihill.net/) and makes excellent use of twitter to promote Ingenious Ireland. The tweets are informative, witty and not pushy. Check out the Ingenious stream. Facebook is also utilised to promote the tours – become a fan of Ingenious Ireland.

]]> http://cookieweb.ie/2010/10/ingenious-website-for-podcast-tours/feed/ 0 Journo Finally Gets a Blog http://cookieweb.ie/2009/12/journo-finally-gets-a-blog/ http://cookieweb.ie/2009/12/journo-finally-gets-a-blog/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:11:59 +0000 Heidi Jermyn http://cookieweb.ie/blog/?p=195 Orla had been bugging Ronan for years to get a website and when his acclaimed biography of Joe Dolan was released last year we practically had to beg him to let us build him something… a website, blog, landing page… anything in html that acknowledges your existence! Thankfully Orla finally convinced him that blog would suit him to a tee and then it just was up to me to apply a design that suited the man. Ronan is self described as “journalist, writer, wears glasses” – And this is what we used as our inspiration to create ronancasey.ie – we love it! More importantly so does Ronan and he’s taken to it like a duck to water: blogging before the website was even launched!

Ronan Casey - Click to launch website

Ronan Casey - Click to launch website

Ronan is a keen tweeter and we used a brilliant little plugin, Tweet Tools, that shows his latest tweets on the website and also automatically sends out a tweet when a new post is published. Hook that into Facebook and you’re all socialised up with minimum effort. Twittering is all about up to second conversation snippets – so if you do have a website than hooking in your twitter updates (tweets) is great way to keep your website fresh and up to date. We’ve recently done something similar to great effect on OurKilcock.ie interlinking the blog, twitter account and Facebook Fanpage.

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