Donegal IT and Internet Safety Expert Niall Mulrine from Pc Clean has been shortlisted in the Irish Blog Awards 2013.
Niall Mulrine
These annual awards held in Dublin takes nominations from people over Ireland, who vote on their favourite blog website by an Irish owner.
His free website www.CyberSafetyAdvice.com is a free resource for parents, teachers and children on how best to protect themselves online, behave online, how to react to online abuse.
Such is the content on the website, it has been receiving a lot of traffic over the summer months.
Articles which Niall compiles himself range from top tips for parents to stay safe online, tips for children if they are getting cyber-bullied, global news stories of internet privacy issues and how it can be fixed for people not to fall into the same trap.
Because of this website, Niall has become known nationally and globally for this expertise in the field of Internet Safety.
He often communicates with people in the same field from other countries who are doing their best to get knowledge out to people to be the best digital citizen he can.
Niall has built a niche area from his IT background as owner of Pc Clean in Ballybofey, in the area of online safety.
He has been delivering workshops to children, teachers and parents over the last few years nationally on the dangers online and how best to embrace it and protect themselves from the dangers.
Niall’s passion can be seen at his workshops that he holds in schools, community centres and other locations, with the knowledge and understanding of the victims feel and behave when in trouble.
His workshops were developed by himself as a result to a need to the local community as parents and teachers often asked him about social media effects on their children.
www.CyberSafetyAdvice.com will go through a rigorous judging panel in October to if his website will make it to a category winner.