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SpunOut.ie HQ January - March review.
We’re long overdue a blog update on what we’ve been up to here in our Galway HQ. As usual, we’ve been sweating it out in our attic office (seriously, we’re in an attic!) to bring you the best in content, campaigns and opportunities for making a difference in this often crazy world.
It’s been a busy few months and we’ve our plate full for the rest of the year, working to develop a new civic action grants and training programme and a national summit. So it’s onwards and upwards, helping lift Ireland out of the fog and into the sun where we rightfully belong.
Hey, how about that for an idea for ‘Your Country, Your Call’? A national cloud busting machine that gives us sun for at least 4 months a year, paid for by tax contributions, or better still, from ministerial and banker pension pots!
Below are some of the various facts and stats covering our progress recently, all aimed at building more momentum for positive social change.
We’ll be back to you soon with more news from HQ, but in the meantime keep checking SpunOut.ie for lots more quality content and campaigns coming your way soon. Thanks for all your support along the way.
Cue the bullet points:
SpunOut.ie January – March 2010 review
- We reached 81,849 unique visitors (+15.7%) and 867,849 pageviews, published 62 user article submissions and created 16 new health & life pages, 20 new action resources and updated over 150 old content pages. We also created and published 13 new videos to our YouTube account.
- We also welcomed nearly 300 new members and 600 new forum posts and rolled out We rolled out 7 new campaigns covering spirituality, mental health, food and politics, relationships, human rights.
- There were SpunOut.ie fundraising events including the amazing fashion show by the Zebra fashion store with The Hut, Origin and Uniform in Galway, and the Mizen2Malin.com team in Donegal. Mucho thanks to all involved. Please let us know if you can help with funding as we need support to continue our good work.
- SpunOut.ie was promoted throughout the land throughout the land getting seen and heard by: Presenting to President McAleese in January, getting a plug from the President on the RTE Mooney show, getting out and about filming at Dáil Na nÓg, featuring on the RTE Frontline TV show and the Ray D’Arcy radio show the next day, publishing our Noam Chomsky interview in the Irish Examiner, getting coverage in the UK Observer, sponsoring the youth category of the Irish Blog Awards, holding a stall at the Young Social Innovators (West) event, featuring in the Young Innovations Europe Magazine, advertising in the Student Survival Guide, featuring on loads more regional radio and news outlets and the ongoing publicity through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
- We sadly said goodbye to our amazing Communications Officer, Susan Quirke who is journeying off to new adventures. Susan has been with us for 3 years, back when there were only 2 of us and we were struggling to get off the ground. Thank you Susan from the entire SpunOut.ie community for all you’ve done. May you travel far and wide and succeed in all you do.
- Meanwhile we welcomed Jason Coomey (Web Development/Online Marketing) and Sarah Clancy (Civic Engagement), Melanie Labor (Forum moderation) on board our support team and also Ronan Conway as a volunteer moderator and Mike Spring and Sinéad Greenan as event and content volunteers.
- Great news that Marie Duffy (board member) and Emily Lindenmuth (Editor) were accepted onto the prestigious ManUp ‘Stop Violence Against Women’ young leaders summit in South Africa (during the world cup woohoo!), Ruairí was awarded a Ray Murphy Leadership bursary, we were a runner up in the Digital Media Awards and we’ve been nominated for an international Tech Award.
- We believe in strength in unity and have been working to develop partnerships with the National Youth Council of Ireland and other youth sector organisations, the Vodafone Foundation, YouthNet UK, the University of Limerick, ReachOut.com, Contact.ie, Muzu.tv, The Examiner, The Shortie Awards, Cultivate, The Irish Blog Awards, The Technology for Wellbeing network, The Action on Suicide Alliance, Young Social Innovators, Concern and Amnesty amongst others.
Phew, that’s all for now from SpunOut.ie HQ.
Until next time, over and out.
-The SpunOut.ie HQ Team
Anna, Emily, Ian, Eoghan, Ruairí and Willie at HQ with Jason, Lynn, Rachel, Louise, Melanie and Sarah in the wings.
