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I am off to WordCamp Ireland tomorrow run by Sabrina Dent and gang. Really looking forward to it!! It is a great opportunity to meet up with web designers from Ireland and beyond and listen to some great tracks and speakers. I plan to heckle from the back of the talks about Drupal of course and will probably eventually be thrown screaming out into the streets as my goodie bag is ripped from my fingers.
Check out the website to see what you are missing and the great speaker list.
I am bringing my 10 year old son with me as he will enjoy it as well as it is kid friendly allegedly (until I get thrown out 
) and it is chance to have a road trip with him. We are bringing two Twitter people with us that I have never met so I have the Mace in the glove compartment !!
But the 20 minutes of hecklingwill be worth it.
This is a shameless promotion of Onetouch computers in Cork. I met Glenn Fitzpatrick the other day and he was a great help for me with some of my PC and network questions. He has a new website coming on line in the coming days but if you want to contact him he is available on info@onetouchcomputers.ie
Drop him an e-mail he also does great deals on laptops and PCs – hmmm…
You may find this hard to believe but a lot of people do not regularly use e-mail. So though you may put contact details on your website or blog that point to an e-mail link, the person in question may not have access to an e-mail program or even be familiar with how to use e-mail.
This may seem strange to someone who checks e-mail regularly and it is part of their life but tons of people do not use e-mail AT ALL. So a simple contact form on your site can make all the difference to the number of contacts that you get.
There are also lots of people who have e-mail who never use it and rearely check it. In a recent club newsletter I sent out using mailchimp I noticed that only about 30% of those on the list actually read or opened it. So you need to be aware of this when dealing with people you want to contact.
There are lots of free or low cost e-mail programs that will handle this type of form easily. Google will show some excellent one (I am not going to do this here). But it is important that people find the form easy and not too many fields as all you want is to make contact not get their life history.