Caribbean Internet Usages Numbers
Popularity: 10% [?]
How many Jamaicans are on Facebook now? It’s like THE question to be asking and answering these past few weeks. So I decided to write a how to article that anyone can refer to and pass on to colleagues and friends. Here’s how to find out how many Jamaicans are on Facebook.
1. Login to Facebook as usual and go to the Home Page. Not your Profile Page.
2. On the Home Page, on the left hand in the side bar, from the top you will see your picture and beneath that in the first block of information you’ll see News Feed, Messages, Events, Friends etc. In the Second Block of information you will see Photos, Ads and Pages etc. Click on Ads and Pages. If you do not see Ads and Pages for some reason, don’t worry, use the Search box and type in Ads, Facebook Ads, Ads Manager.
Popularity: 34% [?]
Last weekend, Jamaica’s Opposition political party the People’s National Party (PNP) had its 71st annual conference at the National Arena in Kingston. There they declared that “This conference is about rebuilding the party, its structures and its organisations. It is to make sure that we recruit the people, young men and young women, the brightest minds, people from all walks of life, who will help to carry the national alliance forward.”
FFWD to this weekend and Mama P, aka Portia Simpson-Miller, former Prime Minister of Jamaica ad current Party Leader is all over Facebook, the center of a “ReClaim Jamaica” campaign. Whoaa! They seemed to have some web savvy people in their camp this time, as one of the reasons the PNP is now in opposition after having an 18 year run as Jamaican government, is that they totally missed the boat in using the Web as a campaigning and fundraising tool for the last general election.
This ad campaign is clearly a step in the right direction, to get in front of the over 200,000 Jamaicans and many more in the Diaspora who are currently on Facebook and the estimated 450,000 who will be on there in 12 months time according to a study we recently got privy to. So Welcome Mama P. Welcome.
Popularity: 3% [?]
When it comes to calling back home, New York-based Jamaicans are racking up those minutes. According to a new report by Saskia Sassen, titled New York City’s Two Global Geographies Of Talk, Kingston, Jamaica accounted for about ten percent of all calls out of Brooklyn, according to AT&T data analyzed.
And together, Kingston, Santo Domingo and Haiti accounted for seventeen percent of all calls out of Brooklyn. In the Bronx, Kingston and Santo Domingo accounted for thirty percent of calls made. New York City’s total foreign-born population stood at almost 2.9 million according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The largest single groups were 370,000 Dominicans, 262,000 Chinese and 179,000 Jamaicans.Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
source: Caribbean World News Network
Popularity: unranked [?]
What a brilliant idea – to ask Facebook users who are supporters of US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to donate their Facebook status to remind people to vote for Barack Obama today. It’s just one of a slew of excellent and impactful ideas that Barack Obama’s strategists have employed to get to where voters are and into their minds, hearts and win them over.
Popularity: 4% [?]
