After some long tedious hours cursing, playing and changing our image gallery we finally have it working and ready for our eager photographers to start piling their images in so that we can all get a look at their work.
The sooner we get these the sooner we can start posting this great content to our website.
I hope to have a link up soon to our gallery so that we can get some feedback on whats in there.
Add comment June 28th, 2007
While we are still having problems with our gallery, the travel writers out there namely, Joe, Joy, Paul and Liz continue to submit articles of high quality day after day despite the problems they are encountering with broadband across our so called first world country!
I’m sure you will enjoy the articles of which I’m going to publish some examples tomorrow.
So check back soon and make up your mind.
Add comment June 27th, 2007
After a few hectic weeks and months and a lot of planning between myguideTravel, Tourism Ireland and all the 2007 participants, Summer of Travel has finally begun in earnest.
Last Wednesday myself (Robert Carpenter) and Philip Watkin made the long journey from our West Cork office to the Hotel Meyrick in Galway to meet all this years eager writers and photographers. After 6 hours in the car we got to meet and say hello to Joy (and her husband Paul), David, Liz, Erin, Joe and Agnes.
We all sat down for a nice dinner and used this opportunity to get to know each other a little better and provide answers to all their questions and ask some questions of our own. Everyone had questions on their assigned regions - methods of transport, internet accessibility, accommodation, camping facilities, car rental and car purchase to name but a few.
On the Thursday we ran a workshop in the Hotel which we used to tell everyone a little more about our company and the programs objectives as well as the priorities namely content submission (uploading images to our gallery and sending through of Travel articles) , using Spark our in-house communications tool, accommodation listings and some regional information.
The participants will be expected to submit content weekly which will then be reviewed by myguideTravel and Tourism Ireland and eventually published to our websites and made available for third party use.
After some internet problems in the hotel and some last minute car organising, we finally got through everything and then it was time to say goodbye and let all the guys and girls loose on Ireland to explore, experience and share their tales throughout their travels in Ireland.
Here’s looking forward to the content they produce and make sure to come back and sample some of their work of which i expect to have some at the end of this week.
Add comment June 12th, 2007
Joe is our travel writer from Washington. He is a student in George Mason University studying both International Policy and Communications. Having travelled extensively Joe has made friends in many places throughout the world, including Dublin, his region of interest. He is also a professional singer and dancer, which should stand him in good stead when it comes to the craic!
Add comment June 11th, 2007
Hailing from Muncie, Indiana, Erin has a Bachelors degree in Arts. Being no stranger to Ireland, having been here during the St. Patrick’s Day festivities last year, Erin hopes to explore our country in minute detail over her three month stay. She will be photographing the South East region.
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A prolific writer with a passion for travel, Elizabeth will join forces with her partner David Wilkinson writing in the Cork-Kerry, and Shannon regions. Elizabeth graduated in English Literature and History from Swarthmore College and has studied here in Trinity College. She has already created a Guide to Limerick.
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Having graduated from metropolitan state with a degree in philosophy David also has a deep passion for photography. Travelling with his partner Elizabeth O’Malley, he will be creating images of both Cork/Kerry and Shannon regions.
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One of our own, Agnes is currently undergoing an internship at myguideIreland, in the French market. Agnes has been involved for six years in the travel industry in both France and England. As well as being a skilled writer, she is a keen photographer and will be producing images of the Midlands East region.
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All the way from Bessemer, Alabama, Joy, together with her partner Paul Davis, will be writing on the North West region. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and has spent the last 25 years as a college professor of developmental studies. This trip to Ireland is fulfilling one of Joy’s fondest life-long ambitions.
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