Kingston, Jamaica – Thursday, May 20th, 2010 - Marc Canter, Founder of Macromedia, the company that created FLASH Media Player, Dreamweaver, Shockwave; the video game developer; Social Networking consultant and designer; 25 year veteran and serial entrepreneur in the software business; now CEO of Broadband Mechanics – will be the International Guest Speaker at the Kingston Beta, the technology event to be held on Thursday June 24th, 2010 6:30 p.m. at the Spanish Court Hotel.
“We’re excited to have Marc Canter as our first international guest speaker. He’s a globally renowned tech entrepreneur and a keynote speaker with great influence and insight. So we believe the idea and information exchange that will happened between him and our community of technology entrepreneurs and business professionals will be invaluable,” said Ingrid Riley, Ceo of ConnectiMass and founder of the event.
Get the 411 on the premier community for Jamaican web entrepreneurs, start-ups and enthusiasts from the lady in charge. Ingrid Riley, founder of Kingston Beta, talks to us about the event at its recent debut at new venue, Spanish Court Hotel. SociaLingua is the official online media partner of Kingston Beta. Be sure to check out our photos from the last event!
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.
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.
Dale-Kurt shares his views on social media marketing used by commercial brands in Jamaica. Those that got it right and those who did not. Check out what he says about Island Grill, Restaurant Week Jamaica and two financial institutions he believes is doing it all wrong.Join in on the conversation.
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.