Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 7th, 2010
- Online Games and Virtual Worlds host over 2.5 billion identities worldwide, estimated to be worth US$14billion according to LCM Research.
-Social networks boast an additional 1 billion identities (Forrester Research, 2009) that have generated over $5 billion of revenue in virtual goods in Asia alone, according to Viximo Research.
- Globally digital revenues grew by an estimated 12% in 2009 totaling $4.2 billion in trade revenues (IFPI).
- Giga Omni Media says virtual worlds for the enterprise market is a $1 billion market today and will grow to $7 billion by 2014. Gartner says the collaboration market is $34 billion. The travel market $90 billion.
-With 250 billion emails sent daily, 90% of which are still SPAM, there is opportunity for PERMISSION to make a decisive impact.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on September 15th, 2009
We found this list on venturebeat.com and added our Caribbean information to it for our global Caribbean audience.They had 25 social media sites. We added 21 Caribbean Social Media sites to make it more useful for us. If you’re a entrepreneur who has been seduced by social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, you may realize the benefits of using these basic tools to finding and staying in touch with business partners, employers and customers, along with learning new information.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 20th, 2009
That was the question in essence that I was asked by a Jamaican university student today. He was doing some research on Caribbean Social Networks. He started out with the following premise…Caribbean social networks are not very well known if at all by most Caribbean people at home and abroad as they are already being bombarded by and are active on the American social networks like Facebook, My Space and Youtube. He then asked me..do I think that Caribbean culture can be eroded because of this? Is his premise sound? Are Caribbean people too caught up in the usual Americana? Do they want to see, be themselves online ? Can Caribbean social networks help spread and even strengthen Caribbean culture?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 4th, 2009
I’m Jamaican and am always searching for things Jamaican and Caribbean on the social networks that I’m a member of. So Facebook is no different. One of those searches yielded a link to a Fan Page branded simply Jamaica under the travel category. It has 35,045 fans from across the world, this, despite that the creator of the Fan Page has never advertised it (except to his circle of Facebook friends) and has not updated it since August last year…coincidentally, the month of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, when Jamaica’s sprint factory credentials yielded an amazing show. This has not stopped the fans from joining, continuously updating the Page with their favourite pictures, shout outs and instant reviews on where they’ve visited, how much they loved it and why. Now this is powerful stuff and I let me share with you why.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on April 25th, 2009
The relevance of mainstream coverage seems not to be an issue for this Internet Generation. I recently attended a rehearsal meeting for an upcoming event. About 10 people gathered to run through the agenda and to meet who was doing what and when. Then one person asked…so is the media coming? The chief organizer without missing a beat listed the names of two well trafficked and respected blogs and a Caribbean social network which covers events, take pictures and brands these pictures and puts them solely online. No one seemed perturbed by this announcement and less surprised at the response by mainstream media for the request for coverage was met with the usual we’ll see how the days events go to decide whether or not to send a reporter or photographer over.
So it made me ask this question…..is seeing and being seen online, getting “coverage” online and being able to share with friends in social networks, on twitter, by email, on instant messenger and by phone a fast growing appeal, reality even, with the clamour to be covered in the mainstream print and by tv stations dwindling?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on April 24th, 2009
How many social networks and how many social tools do you use regularly, daily even? I started to feel pretty overwhelmed the other day. You see, I run a boutique digital marketing agency and write this blog and with all the client work, keeping on point with information and trends in the Caribbean and globally…I use my blackberry to keep a record of God knows how long the list of usernames, passwords for all of the social networks, social tools that I test and also use regularly. So it made me slow down to take a look at myself and ask what exactly is my social media profile and what does it say about me if anything? So here goes.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 16th, 2009
Ok, Ok, I’m on a social media kick here…but come on, you have to admit there is some pretty cool stuff happening out there. Take a read of this. The share of adult internet users who are involved in social networking online has more than quadrupled in the past four years in the U.S. In 2005, only 8% of adults had a social network profile. As of December 2008, that number was 35%. What motivates those in older generations to go online? Is it the opportunity to professionally network with their colleagues? The answer may surprise you. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 15th, 2009
I grabbed this story to share, because I know we in Jamaica and the Caribbean are right here, right now. Some ad agencies are running scared nd holding on to the status quo while a few others and running ahead and seeking to get what they need to compete and also to get what they clients are now asking for and alot more often. Read the article.
“..Not enough agencies are adjusting to the online world..”
Two-thirds of advertising agencies are not prepared for the industry changes prompted by social networks and new forms of digital media, a report has found. The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. More
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