Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 6th, 2010
Who wants to be Mayor? on Foursquare that is. I’m really not surprised that Foursquare is taking off fast here in Jamaica, the land of 100% mobile penetration. Who doesn’t like clicking “check in” on their smart phones as they mosey on into their favourite places to drink, eat or when they’d arrive at their favourite club. It’s frankly addictive. I went to check on what’s been happening on Foursquare and got the above- New Crowned Mayors of Kingston,Jamaica where I’m located and also Where have some of my Foursquare friends recently checked in. I’m currently Mayor of Susie’s Bakery and Coffee Bar. I’m gunning for East Japanese next. And you?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
Cubans’ ability to communicate with one another and the world remained well below the norm for the Caribbean and Latin America in 2009, according to a government report released this week. Despite the legalization of mobile phones in 2008 there were just 1.8 million phone lines in the country, or 15.5 lines for every 100 inhabitants, which was the lowest in the region, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
WITHOUT fanfare, Scotiabank on Monday launched Scotia Mobile Banking services to customers across the Caribbean including Barbados, The Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago. Customers can now check their balances, transfer funds and pay bills from the convenience of their Internet-enabled mobile phone.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
The Caribbean’s largest mobile telephone service provider Digicel put in a creditable performance for the financial year ended 31 March 2010 which saw the Group posting revenues of US$2.2 billion, representing a 12 per cent gain year-on- year and a compound annual growth rate of 24 per cent from 2007 to 2010 when all Digicel markets are included.
Notably Digicel was able to increase its subscriber base by 15 per cent to 10.8 million across 32 markets. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 5th, 2010
An attack on a senior Kingston College (KC) administrator through the popular social-networking site Facebook, apparently in protest against a proposal to block underachieving boys from participating in the school’s graduation ceremony, has been roundly condemned.
Juliet Wilson, KC’s vice-principal, who had some sway in establishing graduation eligibility at the all-boy high school, had reportedly ruled that some boys – who either did not pass five Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate subjects or did not qualify in compulsory subjects such as mathematics and English in an internal exam – be deprived of the opportunity to graduate.
To press for a reversal, a Facebook page titled ‘Say No to Ms Wilson’ was created. It was reportedly littered with derisive remarks about the vice-principal.
When The Gleaner tried to visit the site last Thursday night, the page had already been removed. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 19th, 2010
Digicel the seven year-old company which joined the Telecom game in Jamaica and the Caribbean as the mouth-watering buffet in front of a starving man, is now the Caribbean Brand with the largest Facebook Fan Page Community. They achieved the 100,000 Fan milestone on Tuesday March 16, 2010. They celebrated by running a full page ad in the newspapers and of course more giveaways as thanks to their fans.
Now in an environment where internet marketing professionals and entrepreneurs push to sell Caribbean brands on the validity and value of social media specifically and generally the necessity of having an internet marketing strategy and plan, Digicel with its achievement will no doubt drive the fan rush and social media push in Jamaica and the Caribbean. At least we hope so.
We spoke to Marketing Communications Manager, Tshani Jaja about Digicel, Social Media and the Caribbean.Share your comments or ask questions when you’re finished watching.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 8th, 2010
www.KingstonBeta.com
Kingston Beta is the event that is staged by ConnectiMass the Caribbean Digital Marketing Agency that I run and this blog. We’re happy to announce that we open the 2010 season with a new sponsor and a new location. The next Kingston Beta is Thursday, February 18th @ 6:30 pm. Here’s are the top 5 things that’s new with Kingston Beta.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 27th, 2010
I remember when I had just started to grow my then web development company Dutchpot Interactive from 2003-2006. We enjoyed brisk business primarily because of our customer service, design talents and our keen understanding of the business context of why companies must be online. In house at our Seymour Park digs we had a team of 7 people. We won new business, we won retainers with corporate companies the whole nine yards.
Then things changed.
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Posted by simbethel on January 25th, 2010
Today’s Bahamian internet ‘social’ landscape is pretty barren after starting off with quite a bang in the early, heady days of the Internet’s discovery in the region.
Back in the late 90s, and the early 2000’s we had many vibrant Bahamas centric sites like the Bahamas.com internet forum, Bahamanet.com, BahamiansOnline.com, Bahamas-mon.com Forums, Oii.net (Abaco Forum), Bahamascope.net, Bahamateens.net/com, Freeportteens.com and Briland.com that over time many have fallen by the wayside as the Bahamian and Visitors to the Bahamas have been pulled away to more global sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, hi5.com, blackplanet.com and tagged.com.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 12th, 2010
I attended the 8th annual Caribbean MBA Conference last week held at the Hilton Hotel in Kingston. At the luncheon the Ceo of Digicel Jamaica spoke and gave a great keynote speech and I gathered a bunch of stats.
Here are some of the more interesting numbers.
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