Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
Popularity: 33% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 21st, 2010
Discovered this blog today…”Welcome to Meka Caribbean, the blog that tracks the business of tourism in the Caribbean.” You can find it at this address…http://mekacaribbean.blogspot.com/. Just hope that they will move it to a unique domain name for easier access, pass around and overall branding. Have a read and tell me what do you think.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 5th, 2010
You can find extensive listings of Caribbean Blogs on top5jamaica.com. You can find a growing list of blogs on CUblogz.com even more so that Cariblogger.com seemed to have dived into the dotcom dead pool. You can follow some of the regularly updated Caribbean blogs on blogscaribe.com and blogjamaica. And You can find a small and growing community of Caribbean Bloggers on Facebook. Last year I was happy to report that there was a Caribbean Blog boom brewing, we had discovered how easy it was to start a blog with wordpress and blogger and we were happy.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 1st, 2010
This is what I’ve been seeing for the past two days. I hope they’re just switching servers or something and didn’t fall into the dotcome dead pool. I had high hopes for Cariblogger.com.
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Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 27th, 2010
Just wanted to welcome Robyn-Dale Samuda a jamaican web designer and blogger. He’s another individual we asked to join us here and he said yes. We’re open to guest bloggers from the Caribbean and the global Caribbean Diaspora, so if you have something to say, say it here on SiliconCaribe.com. Email me at siliconcaribe@gmail.com.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on October 17th, 2009
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Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on October 15th, 2009
Blog World New Media Conference, Tradeshow and Media Event begins in Las Vegas today, October 15th and ends on Saturday October 17th. It’s the worlds largest blogging and new media conference. In attendance are some of the world’s best bloggers, blog driven companies plus businesses that provider products and services to the global blogging industry. Industry experts such as Guy Kawasaki, Shama Hyder, Chris Brogan, John Chow, Darren Rowse, Leo Laporte plus a host of others are gathered in a single space. Like me you look, salivate and wish you were there. But instead of just Jonesing, I decided to do two things:
Popularity: 2% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 7th, 2009
Caribbean News. Read All ABout it. Online
First there were the pioneers Cananews.com, CaribbeanNetNews.com and CaribWorldNews.com, then came CaribDaily.com, CaribbeanAxis.com,Caribbeandailynews.com and CaribNewsNetwork.com-it seems aggregating Caribbean news for Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora audience online just got pretty sexy.
Without question there is a need to get a snapshot of what is happening in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora on a daily and weekly basis as who has the time to visit the dozens of individual newspaper,radio and television sites to get all that? This is why in a world where the information avalanche happens daily, smart aggregation is sweet and in this case sweet for the Global Caribbean audience online. So the question is, are all of these sites the same. Quick answer, nope! Let’s have a look.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 5th, 2009
winning on the uphills
This post was inspired by the Seth Godin’s blog post…“Winning on the Uphills.” You should read it. The link to this post came from Mike Michalowicz, the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur himself and it was on point and on time. It came at a time where I’d just about heard enough and had enough of the people around me spewing what I now call recession reruns. You’ve heard it…” boy, things are tough out there”, “Ingrid..gosh.. things are really rough sah.” Now at times it is in response to my internet marketing consulting fees and other times it’s just because the recession and how “tough things are out there” are now the standard patio, cafe, on-the-phone chatter. Yeah yeah, I know that there is a recession and I acknowledge that things are tough for alot of people and businesses, but I am big believer that even in such times people and businesses make money and I intend to be one of them. I am also quick to recognise this time, as an amazing period of opportunity and I simply won’t allow anyone to sway me to think or act differently. Have you?
I believe this is a great time for Internet entrepreneurship.
It is a time when you can create, launch, test, prune and push yourself to greatness. Let the losers keep their head in some hole in the ground, while you put your ideas to work and take them to the Caribbean, to the world.
Always wanted to start a blog? do it right now. Been thinking about finally taking your boss on and making your company more social and engage consumers online? Do it. Want inspiration check out how a Island Grill Jamaican restaurant chain has been mastering Facebook as a consumer engagement tool. Have a great software-as-a-service product that you’ve been afraid to launch? Ohh dammit, just do it and if you need inspiration Google,Symsure or check out the 37signals.com story. Think you can’t challenge the big boys and win? ask the Jamaican startups Pileojobs.com and Whatissocialingua.com how they got the balls and are gunning for it.Think you have a wicked online community idea ? do your thing and if you want proof that it can be done surf on over to Caribsingles.com, the largest Caribbean online dating site.
Be the company, the entrepreneur, the startup that’s focused on winning on these uphills, take advantage of these “tough times” to improve, take risks while your competition laments and yearns for the easy spots on the journey. With that said, watch for the unfolding of our blog media network.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 23rd, 2009
This is a special invitation to all Jamaican bloggers to join us at the next Kingston Beta, this Thursday June 25th, at 6:30 p.m. at Susie’s on the Terrace, Southdale Plaza. It’s Free as usual. Bring 5 Friends, your business cards, wear your Blog Promotional Teeshirt. Wine Complimentary by CPJ (Caribbean Producers of Jamaica). See you there.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
