Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 17th, 2010
Marc Canter
We made the announcement on May 19th on the event blog for Kingston Beta. The headline read Marc Canter, Founder of Macromedia, creator of FLASH Media Player will speak at the ConnectiMass technology event Kingston Beta in June. The Jamaican and Caribbean tech and business community has been a buzz ever since.
And yes he will be speaking their via Skype Video/Ustream next week Thursday June 24th, 2010 to the Jamaica’s Kingston Beta community at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston.
Since we became Facebook friends, I took the opportunity to get a pre-event interview with him. So I sent him some questions and he answered them in a candid and direct way. Here’s the interview:
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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 Ingrid Riley on December 15th, 2009
Seth Godin, who has written 12 bestsellers that have been translated into 33 languages, is an in demand global speaker, digital age trend watcher and thinker is one of my mentors. I’ve bought and read his books, watched his videos and read his blog religiously.
I was commissioned to do an all day workshop with Jamaica Trade and Invest /JAMPRO on December 3rd at the Jamaica Conference Centre where I spoke to just under 100 Jamaican entrepreneurs of Micro, Small, Medium -sized businesses. I prepared a 95 slide power point presentation which was in demand at the end of the day. I pondered whether to just give it away, selectively do so or not at all.
So I asked Seth and my other colleague and mentor Gerd Leonhard, The MediaFuturist – he too is a blogger, global speaker, trendwatcher and ebook publisher. Gerd in a reply email said “My philosophy is ‘knowledge grows when shared’ and I have had a very good experience with that so far. I only publish PDFs though, not PPTs, and only use creative commons licensed images (Flickr) or iStockphoto.com or fair use stuff. If it’s free published I have never had a real issue.Cheers from Switzerland and let’s do something together in Jamaica one of these days;)”
I emailed Seth and asked him too, he too replied promptly and said…“I don’t share mine, because they have no text and make no sense..but if they had text, I’d share em.” So I followed their advice I shared my PDF Presentation…on Facebook, on Twitter and my Company Blog as a free download. And I more ebooks coming too and my roster for speaking in increasing too.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on September 28th, 2009
Kingston BETA September Edition
The place where the Internet Powerbrokers meet. Where Technology Means Business.
-Hear 4 dotcom startups PITCH their new businesses. ( Socialingua, Monagis.com, PlayJamaica.com and CaribContact)
-Get Your Free copies of College Lifestyle Magazine
When: Tuesday Sept 29th, 2009
What time: 6:30pm – 9:30p.m
Where: Susie’s on the Terrace, Southdale Plaza.
It’s Free. Tell 3 Friends. Bring Business Cards.
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KINGSTON BETA FACT #1
The Kingston Beta Community powers over 80% of the Internet activity in Jamaica and activity focused on Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 31st, 2009
MobileCaribe.com is the Caribbean and Latin America CellPhone Blog. The goal is to connect readers to cellphone news,trends, products and companies that impact their daily lives. It’s a Caribbean Flavoured Guide to What Caribbean People and Caribbean Companies worldwide are doing with the Mobile Phone. MobileCaribe.com is part of a fast growing Caribbean Blog Media Network that includes BlogsCaribe and CaribbeanStartupBlog.com and has just over 100,000 unique readers monthly.
The Caribbean Blog Media Network is a product of Connectimass, a Digital Marketing Firm based in Kingston,Jamaica and Atlanta, USA.
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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.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 1st, 2009
Been reminded again, of just how a good book can be so damn disruptive to your life. I have to admit, when I first heard about the Toilet Paper Entreprenuer, Mike Micalowicz, I listened politely and then immediately forgot about him. Even as I trust the opinion and recommendations of my regular guest blogger David Mullings, CEO of Real Vibez Media. In fact it was David who flew Mike down the first time he came to speak in Jamaica and it was to a bunch of University students at the University of the West Indies. Sorry David. ☺
You see I’ve read A LOT of best selling business books and I’ve gotten something out of most of them. But honestly I’d told myself already…ok enough business books, just get on with the business of welll, running my business. Plus I’d have my share of successes and failures, so what’s the big deal anyway. That changed this week. It started with me prepping for the event, Mike’s second speaking engagement in Jamaica this time brought down by Gale Peart, Ceo of MyEliteGrocer.com to speak at the Technology Innovation Centre at the University of Technology.
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