Check it out; thanks to HEAnet, recordings from the day are now available to view:

• Intro by our killer MC - Hugh Linehan
• Failure – the motivation to try again - Colm Lyon
• Design Thinking – Marcus Swan
• Future-retro-ism - Jane Ruffino
• Friendship is Magic: My Little Pony - Sabrina Dent
• Be a Startup, not a F**ckup: lessons from the trenches of startup land - Joe Drumgoole
• So you think you need an app?  – Dermot Daly
• How the internet changed my life:
• Lisa Domican
• Rosemary Mac Cabe
• Andrew Hetherington
• Distilled Media – Joining the dots - Odhran Ginnity
• Docs Themselves – Ana Nelson
• Near Field Communications & the ZAPA Tag: has mobile payment finally arrived? - Donal McGuinness
• Panel Discussion: The future of tech in Ireland:
• John Kennedy
• Ellen Dudley
• Paul Rellis
• Philip Nolan
• Adrian Weckler (Panel Chair)

• The Age of Building Things - John Collison

 Thanks again to all our awesome speakers!

You can also check out who got married on the day and how pretty they looked in their wedding attire.

Video will be up soon, keep your RSS peeled.

We had a great day yesterday and hope you had too, whether you were here in person or watching the live stream on the interweb. The people make the dot conf and you guys are awesome.

We’d like to say a MASSIVE thanks to everyone involved in this years dot conf. Everyone in NCI and our partners in the Irish Internet Association and Silicon Republic. Also to our sponsors Mason Hayes + Curran, Microsoft, Blacknight and Lucey Technology. To our amazing speakers and presenters, without whom we wouldn’t have had such a fantastic day. Thanks also to HEAnet for hosting the live stream; thanks to their brilliant work, we had 653 unique visitors joining us online. Thanks to Starbucks for the coffee and also to all our goody bag providers: Tubs Sweets, Bootcamp Ireland, Butlers Chocolates, screenclick, ohc, Pixel Apes, NYC and Pivotal Communications.

Pictures and video from the day will be available next week, so watch this space.

 … oh and one more HUGE shout out to eye cue, for bringing us p.dotty and the dot conf crew:

• Live Video Stream

1. Connect everyday objects to the internet with the Arduino
Jeffrey Roe, TOG Hackerspace Dublin

This lively introduction will educate you on some of the countless possibilities of the Arduino microcontroller. Arduino is an easy to use device for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.  This deep dive will showcase the Arduino and the Ethernet shield.

2. The eYe Factor: how to improve your website through eye-tracking
Abi Reynolds & Stephan Weibelzahl, National eLearning Laboratory at NCI

Abi and Stephan will be discussing eye-tracking analysis and demonstrating how it forms part of their UX research in the National E-Learning Lab at NCI.

3. Data, context and content strategy
Randall Snare, iQ Content

 There’s a lot of data out there, and there are lots of ways to interpret it. Sure, numbers are impressive, but what do they really mean for your content? Using examples from her work at iQ Content, Randall will show you how to make data the bedrock of a great content strategy, using tools you don’t need to be an analytics guru to master. Find out how data can help you reach your audience, maintain (and reality-check) your content strategy and define & achieve success online – whether you’re managing a website or building an application.

4. Intellectual Property and the Internet – protecting your business online
Peter Bolger, Mason Hayes+Curran

 The internet is an old dog at this stage, but it is still learning new tricks and business users need to ensure they are up to date on the latest developments.  A dramatic increase in usage and content means that Intellectual Property can be a friend and a foe.  Peter Bolger will give an overview of IP online and around the edges.

5. Getting buy-in for your idea in the offline world
Rowan Manahan, ‘The Presenter Mentor’

Presentations are binary – they either work or they don’t. Presenting is less black and white; so your planning and preparation has to allow for those shades of grey. Rowan will show you that you can present using slides that don’t make your audience nauseous, that you can step up to a whiteboard and sketch out an idea, or that you can set aside all visual aids and just connect with your audience.

 Rowan’s deep dive will help you transform your presentation delivery, content and technology to whatever level you need. He is on Twitter as @PresenterMentor and you can find his blog here – http://presentingissimple.blogspot.com

6. Social Media Quiz: test your knowledge, maybe gain some and have a bit of craic!
Emily Tully, Emily Tully PR & Online Communications

Having decided trying to teach the dot conf crowd anything about social media that they didn’t already know was a bit of a challenge, Emily Tully will present the Social Media quiz.  Participants, registered in advance, will be asked to submit social media questions to try and catch our surprise panel of celebrities, geeks and gurus out!  It’s just a bit of fun so you can leave your notebooks at the door.  Email your impossible social media questions to emily@emilytully.com

7. Architecting for User Experience: what is UX for a geek?
Josh Holmes, Microsoft Developer Platform Group

What is UX? Isn’t that just for designers? What’s my role as a developer or architect in UX? Where do I start? All these questions and more will be tackled in this deep dive!

The dot conf took place on 22nd July 2010. It was hosted by NCI with the Irish Internet Association in partnership with 

Thank you to all the people who helped to make the dot conf happen, from our amazing speakers and presenters to Microsoft for donating the Xbox and to everyone who came along, watched the live stream and blogged, tweeted or generally talked about the event.  

Thanks too to everyone we talked to in the early stages of designing this event. The following people helped us to imagine and create the day: 

• Dermot Casey, Storyful
• Darren Connolly, Connolly/English Public Relations
• Bernie Goldbach, Tipperary Institute / Inside View
• Iarfhlaith Kelly, Webstrong
• David Kytzia, Syntax
• Damien Mulley, Mulley Communications
• Des Traynor, Contrast

If you were there, we’d really appreciate if you took 2 minutes to fill out a quick survey and let us know what you thought about the day. You can also join the conversation on twitter:  #dotconf.  

Watch the recorded presentations

Special thanks to HEAnet for hosting the live stream; thanks to their brilliant work, we had 813 unique visitors joining us online. The recordings are now available to view: 

• Wisdom In The Crowd - Mark Little 
• Keep Ahead of the Cloud - Gerry Power + Keith Maycock 
• The Mobile Web has Arrived – Dermot Daly 
• OMG TMI! – Interacting with large data sets on the web - Martha Rotter 
• Business, Esperience, Technology – Des Traynor 
• The Facebook Platform - Sonia Flynn 
• Internet security – will it ever happen? - Andy Dowling 
• The Awesomeness Methodology - Robin Blandford + Donnchadh Mac Cobb 

Deep dive presentations

• eCourgettes and Wired Pototatoes: using social media tools to build a richer conversation - Bernie Goldbach (TippInst), Mark Rock (Audioboo) & Peter Donegan (Donegan Landscaping)
• Usable Language: How content shapes the user experience - Randall Snare & Elizabeth McGuane, iQ Content

 ..and a final heartfelt word of thanks to eye cue, for creating the rocking lego video:

What is the dot conf?

The dot conf is a new web technology conference for anyone who works, rests or plays with the internet. It’s a one day event and it’s. Essentially it’s a teddy bears picnic but with internet folk instead of bears.

Why go?

• There will be awesome speakers, who will be inspiring, intriguing and invigorating.
• There will be cake and beer and a chance to meet other people who like cake, beer AND the internet.
• You’ll be at the launch of NCI’s new MSc in Web Technologies.
• It’s a chance to meet the faces behind the screens, the typing fingers and the clickers of the mice.

Who should come?

Designers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, coders, bloggers, 3^rd level students, developers, social media types, IT personnel, educators, marketers, usability engineers, software architects and you.

Who shouldn’t come?

Dangerous animals and pirates.

Where?

It’s on in National College of Ireland, Mayor St, IFSC, Dublin 1.

It has it’s own LUAS stop, so no excuses!

When?

Thursday July 22nd. With registration starting at 10am and the first speaker at 10.30.

How?

Book your place now! (Remember, it’s totally free, but you do need to register to book your place. We’ll only use your info to get in touch about the dot conf, and we won’t share your details with anyone else. But we won’t mind if you give our details out to all your friends. In fact, we’d kinda like it.)

Thanks!

There are lots of lovely people involved in this event. Here are just a few of them (there’ll be more to follow):