Retweeting has now become a core part of the Twitter experience. Retweeting is basically how Twitter users share interesting tweets from the people they are following. They copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the original person, users put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet and add the link as well. See example above and see another here in a text version:
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With 60 people in attendance at the Spanish Court Hotel, smack in the middle of Kingston’s Business District, Kingston Beta – the Caribbean’s premier technology networking and startup pitch event kicked off its 2010 season. With sponsor Jamaica National, partners in SiliconCaribe, Socialingua, RealVibez.tv and CaribClix – the audience of entrepreneurs, bloggers, site publishers, Internet marketers, software developers saw pitches from Global Youth Connection, Smart Office, TechShopja and VirtualMall Jamaica. More
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Episode 1 – The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur in Jamaica
Check out our interview with Mike Michalowicz, multi-millionaire entrepreneur, best selling author of ‘The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’ and in demand public speaker. Some of the questions I asked him were:
- His take on the status of entrepreneurship in Jamaica ?
- What are the top two takeaways from this book for Caribbean readers ?
- Why the world needs Caribbean entrepreneurs?
SiliconCaribeTV…are video blogs from SiliconCaribe.com. Like the blog we’re covering what Caribbean people and Caribbean companies are doing online and with technology. Lots more to come.
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Twittermania has gripped the world and the Caribbean and Jamaica are no different. Last week I wrote a post on the Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers, now I’m going country specific for a hot minute. Again, I used wefollow.com, which is a user-powered Twitter directory to track how many twitterers we had under the Jamaica tag/category. WeFollow.com has grown to become pretty much the Billboard Chart for Twitter follower standings, the current industry standard and most influenftial Twitter directory.
The top 12 Jamaican Twitterers list was developed by using this single directory with the sole determinant being- how many followers/subscribers does each Twitterer have. What I found was that the top 12 people/sites/individuals/companies with the most followers in the Jamaica tag/category are:
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ARE YOU A TOILET PAPER ENTREPRENEUR ? -“How to Make It Big in Business, Even Though the Economy Sucks Wind.” That’s the theme of what will undoubtedly be, an inspiring, call to action type of seminar today, with featured speaker the American young entrepreneur MIKE MICHALOWICZ who launched and sold two multi-million dollar companies before age 30 and is the author of the bestselling business book the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike’s 3rd multi-million dollar venture, Obsidian Launch now mentors and incubates startup businesses.
MICHALOWICZ, is a graduate of MIT’s “Birthing of Giants” Entrepreneurial Program; a recurring guest on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), in the New York Times, Smart CEO Magazine. Mike’s also a regular blogger for Young Money.com and YoungEntrepreneur.com.
The Event will also feature KINGSTON BETA’s PITCH This Segment, which is really an open mic for great business ideas. There 3 rising Jamaican young entrepreneurs will get three minutes to woo the audience on the who, what, when, where and why of their startup companies
This event for Jamaican entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in waiting is staged by Caribbean Fortress Ltd in association with MyEliteGrocer.com and Kingston BETA (A Connectimass Event) Join us, it’s only JA$500. Bring two friends and your business cards.Look out for SiliconCaribeTV,the weekly video blog we’ll be launching for this blog soon. Also watch for Look out for the roving cameras of SocialLingua.com.
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