Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 30th, 2010
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 April 13th, 2010
…Yes it’s nearing that time again, where all of the entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives in the Jamaican and Caribbean tech industry meet to network, find out what’s new and of course listen to the startup pitches during the event’s popular PITCH THIS! segment. Kingston Beta, Jamaica’s Premier Technology Event is on Thursday April 29th, 6:30pm at the Spanish Court Hotel.
We have expanded our very popular PITCH THIS segment and haves paces for 4 more startups regardless of where you are in the world…we”ll video skype you to our audience as we have done. So if you are a Jamaican/Caribbean based, led startup send us your details for consideration to me at ingrid @ connectimass.com.
Keep track of what’s happening- Join the community on Facebook.com/KingstonBeta. We have the latest videos and photos from the last event as well as great startup information. You can also follow us on twitter.com/KingstonBeta. Kingston Beta is an event spawned by SiliconCaribe and ConnectiMass. It has sponsors like Jamaica National on board for the year with more coming on soon.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 2nd, 2010
Those are the five words I’ve been hearing alot these past two weeks as I attend back to back meetings with marketing executives and CEOs of Jamaican companies across industries such as tourism, food and beverage and export. They are now ready to change the way they develop products, deliver services and market them- because the market has determined it.
I like the fact that they have seen the light and there is a desire to change and with speed and even better, prepared to take action that clearly demonstrates their courage too. While some may say that it’s better late than never, I’ve always believed that insight and pre emptive strikes can detemine market leaders vs companies who are merely industry fodder. It is when you choose to acknowledge and act that will determine a company’s position in the marketplace.
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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 January 4th, 2010
” I don’t think you’ll see anything big in 2010 for Jamaica online. Not being negative but just realistic. For anything big online, it’s going to cost some cash to get it built and marketed. That kind of money exists with the Internet Ignorant and while they are slowly gaining confidence even with the evidence as blatant as Facebook’s 200,000+ Jamaicans (in Jamaica) and climbing they still choose to throw money at the old mediums..playing it safe!”
This was the last email in the discussion I saw this morning, and it came from a colleague of mine as part of an email discussion thread started last night between a bunch of us Jamaican-based technology entrepreneurs. It started with the list of Alexa.com’s top11 Jamaican sites curated and published by another colleague.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 17th, 2009
I’m a huge believer in networking both within your own industry and across many others. So when I got this in my inbox, thanks to my business partner Sandor Panton, I had to pass it on too. You can never network too much is my belief.
Jamaica Trade and Invest, in keeping with our commitment to stimulate the trade and business environment is pleased to introduce the Jamaica Business Opportunity Service- ‘JBOS’ for ease of reference- a highly interactive web-based service that is dedicated to connecting buyers and sellers online.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 15th, 2009
wallenfordblue.com
I saw the Google ad and I clicked. When I landed on the site’s homepage, I was stunned. The Jamaican-based coffee company Wallenfordblue dropped me off a cliff with what is in essence an awful site. Come on wallenfordblue.com, I just think if you’re selling a premium product then your website oughta reflect that. It irks me even more since this is the brand I often buy to take to friends in the United States, so if they went to replenish their coffee supplies in between my visits they’d surely be scared off by this site.
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So in writing the article Find out how many Jamaicans are on Facebook in 7 quick steps, I decided to check on our Trinidadian neighbours and found out that as of today, there are more Trinidadians on Facebook – 364,960 than Jamaicans – 363,380. If you want to know how about other Caribbean countries or any country. Read this post.
