15.04.09

This Blog has been Moved!!!

Posted in General & soca & Trinidad Carnival & soca Monarch & bunji Garlin & festivals & dancehall & reggae & Sint Maarten & Heineken Regatta & Interview & Corey Graham 2.0 & Drenalin & BoomTribe & Alt Entertainment & Crop Over & St. Lucia Carnival & Campus Carnival & Barbados & Trinidad & Rupee & Nurse Karen & Vincy Mas & st. lucia carnival & ATI & Great Fete & Great Fete & Antigua Carnival & Reggae Sumfest & Spice Mas & Cruise & Carnival Nations & Mas Bands & Caribbean & Drenalin & Nite Club & business & social Networking & marketing & festival & Mobile Technology & Blackberry & coverage & New Media & productivity & management & Blogging & review & Live Blog & personal growth & Network & thinking and ideas & Simone Harris & podcast | 23:25

This blog is now hosted at www.coreykgraham.me/bizblog - As you can expect I am ever evolving and when its time to move its time to move. 

Now if you are reading this message in an RSS Reader it would mean that you are not subscribed to my feedburner feed. This means that when I change feeds you would not have a seamless transition and you will have to subscribe to - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/coreykgraham.

Subscribe to my feedburner feed! It helps me to know who is reading which is certainly a motivation to keep writing.

This move is going to be a pretty silent one, no big splash. 

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09.10.08

Another Simple But Powerful Google Idea

Posted in Corey Graham 2.0 & Barbados & Caribbean & business & festival & New Media & personal growth & thinking and ideas | 01:20

A few of my recent posts have been about ideas and getting them to spread. Interestly, enough a friend shared this link with me recently that I had to make sure I share with ya. I could not have planned a better example of how a simple idea can really create something rather powerful...

And to add to it had to be another Google idea. Got to like Google they are expanding into everything look ...they even help me write posts! Literally

 

THE IDEA (taken from article on makeuseof.com)

Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
GeorgeBush@gmail.com
G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com
…
…
GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com
GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com
…
…
GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com
And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’

See the full article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/

Now this one really blew me away, Its so simple and yet so practical and useful!!

Its good to be quietly blowed over by a new idea every once in a while! Especially when its good for business!!!

Corey Graham 2.0
www.coreykgraham.com
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04.10.08

People On Board The Big Dream

Posted in Corey Graham 2.0 & Caribbean & business & festival & management & thinking and ideas | 13:55

I talked about spreading your ideas in a post last week. Here is another dimension to that ...

Sometimes we can get caught up in casting our big dream or vision to people who, sit there and listen, understand it and internalise it and everyone is excited by the big prize at the end. However these same people may actually take weeks, months or even years to commit to making that dream a success. This might take the form of getting a work colleagues on board with your new project, to making a deal with a strategic business partner.

CREATURES OF HABIT
First, you have to appreciate that human beings are people of habit and it takes alot of energy and willpower to stop and start a new habit and for many persons we only put in this effort when we HAVE TO.

When willpower and want is greater than the disappointments and pain endured along the way, a phenomenon occurs ... success. Corey Graham 2.0

So when you cast a dream of vision to persons you are asking a tremendous amount for them to jump on board and even if the full desire is there they might not really appreciate what it feels like to have this new habit. Starting a new habit makes people feel weird. Not everyone is like me ... just naturally weird, crazy or my own word - ATYPICAL. Lol, yes, yes I am an ATYPICAL guy.
Its important to be able to transpose this big dream into what I call a "habit program". This will make it easier for persons to create the habit. Let me be sure to state that creating a "habit program" is hard work and it often comes down to your personal discipline and your ability to retain focus.

WHAT IS A HABIT PROGRAM REALLY?

Team sports is a good example of something like this, where coaches essentially have the basis of a great habit program in place already. Its called PRACTICE. The coach now has the ability to plan a program and easily cultivate the right habit patterns in the players. Many times he does not share the big dream of vision with all the players until they have been praticing for sometime. He then connects all the little successes so far from practices to the big dream. The players are in a position to appreciate it alot more, because have tasted some success and they get a chance to experience first hand the success of sticking to the plan. This all shows up in the pre-season games and practice games it all comes together when everyone gets to see first hand what works and what doesn't work.
Think about it? What about the "habit program" your personal trainer has gotten you on?

Have you been transfering your dream into a "habit program"?

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18.08.08

Brewsters Road Taught Me A Marketing Lesson!!!!!

Posted in soca & Trinidad Carnival & festivals & Corey Graham 2.0 & BoomTribe & Crop Over & St. Lucia Carnival & Barbados & Vincy Mas & business & marketing & festival & thinking and ideas | 10:05

Brewsters Road Crew reinforced a valuable marketing lesson I learnt at the start of this 2008 summer period during my time under "house arrest".

Summer didn't quite turn out as I had envisioned it. As a Vincy Mas Virgin, I was looking forward to my "first experience" of Vincy Mas 2008 then I was anxious to return to St. Lucia Carnival 2008 for a second consecutive "first experience" lol.... but it was not meant to be.
Without any warning I was reduced to BirdMan 2.0, just 2 weeks before Vincy Mas final weekend. I officially had Chicken Pox and was confined to my bedroom for 2 weeks!!!!
Those trips to Vincy Mas and St. Lucia Carnival morphed into distant dreams, the shadows of a former reality .... into just another episode of 'wishful thinking'.
I could really appreciate how those Olympic hopefuls feel, when they manage to injure themselves just before the Olympic Games. Their dreams crushed. Well hmmm, maybe its 1000 times more magnified for them.. Anyways I made the most of my appointment to the BirdMan 2.0 post, once I had that a lifeline to the internet I was happy! Once I could communicate and blog.

 

(Backstage manager - stop rambling and "showing off" - just get to the blasted point - Corey Graham 2.0 or whatever u call yourself.. )

CG 2.0 - Alrite!!!

During my daily online sweep as Birdman 2.0, I came across a speech delivered by one of my favourite bloggers & marketing gurus, Seth Godin at TED : Ideas Worth Spreading.
(TED is an annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)Click here for more info on TED)

Seth Godin's speech, on making ideas spread really hit me hard, and got me thinking. I posted almost immediately to this blog. And then I saw it play out with Brewsters Road Crew extraordinary success over the Crop Over 2008 season.
Let me share the perspective with you.

It would help alot if you watch the video first,

 

I strongly recommend that you take the time to watch the video. Its highly recommended by Corey Graham 2.0.

Brewsters Road Crew (www.brewstersroadcrew.com) are known for their hardcore partying during carnival season. This was what fueled their concept for their events. They wanted to create events that hardcore partiers like themselves would enjoy.
The party would not end till 8, 9, 10, 11 am the next day, it was to be wall to wall soca. All soca, and All Party. There was even a cage made to lock up people who did not party hard enough.

 Brewsters Road Crew focused on the people on the fringes. They focused on those people who are passionate about carnival, they focused on hardcore party people. They didn't try to be mass market. They chose a niche market and focused on it. I am sure that those persons enlisted to assist them, were clear on the vision for the events.  And it spread...
Their idea spread. It caught on like wild fire, like the ipod or the blackberry. They were able to cross over into many different markets and age groups simply because they had something which was REMARKABLE. They had something worth talking about.

It was definately worth talking about. It was REMARKABLE. I would never forget going to Brewsters Road this year.

• Its packed from 11 pm and the crowd just kept coming.
• At 3 am - 4 am when you usually expect the crowd to lessen, it just thickened.  People left other events and went to Brewsters Road after.
• Door closed at 2 am, with tonnes of people still outside, and the venue is big!
• Event organizers had big headaches just trying to get artistes slated to perform through the mob of people outside trying to get in.
• Waiting outside in a line to go in a fete at 2 am is something foreign to Barbados, but for brewsters road, closing the door at 2 am as a standard

Brewsters Road the best thing since sliced bread? Maybe .. spread the idea.

Brewster Road On BoomTribe.com
Video Interview With Brewsters Road Spokespersons

Review of Launch Event

Photogallery of Launch Event

Photogallery - Brewsters Road Paint D town Red

Photogallery - Soca and Water

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30.06.08

2008 Summer Heating up at BoomTribe

Posted in General & festivals & Corey Graham 2.0 & BoomTribe & Crop Over & St. Lucia Carnival & Vincy Mas & Mas Bands & Caribbean & festival & Blogging | 09:56

The pressure is mounting, my things to do list is getting 10 times longer. SummerTime 2008 is here! The new Soca tunes are carnivalising my inbox. Tickets are being booked, promoters are getting their premium events in gear. BoomTribe wise that means things are getting hectic, time is drying up. Of course not too hectic to let my subscribers now what's on for the summer with BoomTribe.
 
Friday Night Clubbing at Jumbies, St. Lawrence Gap, Barbados
At the end of April we closed out "Happy Fridays", to bring something new and fresh for Summer 2008.

SEXXY its called. Its pretty simple. Every lady desires to be SeXXy and deserves to feel that way. So on Fridays we say Ladies take some time to let down your hair and be SeXXy
The first 12 groups of 4 ladies coming through the door enter free entry and get bottle of wine free!!!

Hmm ?
Now that's part 1

Part 2
We take photos of the SeXXy guys and gals on our SeXXy wall at Jumbies.  The top SeXXy ladies and top 5 SeXXy guys photos are posted online. In a poll! That's right we let the BoomTribe Community choose who is the  Sexxiest!

The top guy and the top gal get to bring 4 of their friends the following week along with a gift voucher at a clothing store!

Poll Week 1
Poll Week 2
Poll Week 3
Poll Week 4


BoomTribe Radio Show & Top Ten Countdown
We have reached the 100th Radio Charts, and that called for a little celebration. Yours truly intro'ed a little video clip of the 100th show - hilarious stuff!
Video 1
Video 2

Radio forum

Of course we have the top 10 charts still going strong and now proving their accuracy.  Look our for more developments there. Just look out!

Thanks to Nurse Karen for accepting my invitation to be on the show last week. She gave up the insight to the already buzzing Summer Soca Season.
You don't know Karen? www.coreykgraham.com/search
Search for Nurse Karen see what you find!


BoomTribe.com
We are ever evolving, after a recent upgrade on the site, things are getting back to business as usual. We are turning back of the steam and taking it to the next level.
Check out our latest video productions -
BoomTribe Visits Red Boyz Studio

Baje Launch

Live Blogging from Final Challenge

Roamin on CBS
We are preparing to close out season one of Roamin regionally and start the second season by the end of July.
Thanks to those of you across the Caribbean for watching and texting!
The big thing to talk about here is the Next VJ contest, I would like to congratulate Carlos Barrow and Keann Walters for winning the competition.  Lots more info at www.BoomTribe.com/vj

And finally
AWOL and DreamLand, Yup these are our major events for the year
AWOL is a military themed event and Dreamland the ultimate Drinks Free event!
AWOL Flyer

DreamLand Flyer

Yup, I just had to be sure I kept you updated with what's going in the office.
Of course I work directly with the website, and getting this information available to you on BoomTribe.com

That's what's up with me. What's up with you?

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04.06.08

Caribbean Entertainment Set to Boom When New Regional Tourism Marketing Plan Gets Under Way?

Posted in General & festivals & Cruise & Carnival Nations & Caribbean & business & marketing & festival | 13:00

It seems my idea for a Cruise of the Caribbean Carnivals might become a reality sooner than I thought!
I literally just finished reading a news article from the St Lucia Star Newspaper that has me thinking I might be seeing this dream for Caribbean Carnivals Cruise materialise sooner rather than later.
I had to stop what I was doing and take the time and share this thinking with you - my loved readers and subscribers!
(Thanks to Barbados Tourism Authority Corporate Communications Specialist  Christal McIntosh for bringing this article to my attention!)

In a nutshell, the Caribbean tourism market share declined in 2007 and it is going to continue to face challenges for the following reasons -
-  increased competition from new tourists destinations in Europe and Asia
-  higher oil costs which will cause reduced air lift to the Caribbean
- climate change which can destroy the beaches and so on the tourists enjoy.

 Industry experts are saying that the Caribbean Tourism Industry should look to its largest untapped resource - the Caribbean Dispora. Yup that right, start to niche market the Caribbean as a tourist destination to Caribbean people around the world. Yea I serious, the set theme of the 12th Annual Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) Symposium on Sustainable Tourism  was "Embracing the Diaspora: Connecting Communities."
I just love the way that sounds? I wonder who wrote that! I know if Corey Graham 2.0 had to come up with something, it would have been - "Embracing the Diaspora: Connecting Communities Through Web 2.0 Technology" hmmm wait but that sounds like a good title for another post! hmmmm, I making a note of it. RIGHT NOW.
You should also note that one of the key reasons for this market going untapped for so long, is due to the lack of available data on Caribbean people living in developed countries. These Caribbean people in the world who are earning top dollar and there have the largest spending power. The lack of info on these Caribbean people is because there is no provision for "Caribbean" in the American census exercise for example.
I guess that makes it a bit of a risk to invest in that market right? Lack of Info on the market - that is good reason right ?
I wonder though is it really that big a risk? When so many people in Caribbean entertainment  bet their businesses on these markets? Artistes, Promoters, Carnival costume designers, webmasters? All the players involved from Caribana  in Canada to Labour Day in New York to Nottingham Carnival in England to Trinidad Carnival and Crop Over in Barbados.
I mean its not all rosy and plain sailing I have heard many say "There is a lot that is left to be desired"
 I wonder if those persons could put a price tag on  "There is a lot that is left to be desired". I wonder if US$188M would be the number they will call. I wonder because that is the price tag on the proposed marketing blitz for this niche marketing campaign which is to be discussed at the Caricom summit in July.

Hmmm and if we want more caribbean people to travel to the caribbean, I am guessing that means more money thrown behind entertainment and carnivals, festivals and Christmas in the Caribbean? What about Independence days?

Talking about Christmas,its an election year in US and usually US business drops by 20 - 30 %  between Sept - Dec. Its an Olympic year too that always has a negative impact on tourism too?

Yeah that is something to think about!

Other options to be considered are the faith tourism market and the eco or green tourism market, which would go beyond just the Caribbean Disapora. So all the eggs might not be in just this one basket.

Now let  me be honest with you Corey Graham 2.0 ain't no guru on tourism but I a little about marketing...So we want to entice Caribbean people to travel to the caribbean.
Hmmm, let me see ok ... its coming to me, its coming, wait wait I got it!! Party, Rum and Wuk up/Wining all with  some FREE food?
LOL, but seriously Caribbean people are going to want to take part in the culture entertainment, food, cricket, sports, playin mas, festivals, church, independence days and other historic events etc.

I know what you are asking how do you cash in? Listen to what I am thinking. Lets build a Wining Season resort - complete with a golf course? Ohh Ohh you can get a complimentary rum when you check in?

I know you like it give me a call but only if you serious and have lots of money to spend hmmm ... sorry I meant to say money to INVEST of course. All others I invite you to comment share your thoughts.

I thought this Caribbean Rap would really fit this post - take a listen to Champions by Billy Kincaid

Check out the St. Lucia Star article here

Corey Graham 2.0
www.coreykgraham.com/blog

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16.05.08

Launching My Caribbean Entertainment Search Beta

Posted in General & soca & Trinidad Carnival & soca Monarch & bunji Garlin & festivals & dancehall & reggae & Sint Maarten & Heineken Regatta & Interview & Corey Graham 2.0 & Drenalin & BoomTribe & Alt Entertainment & Crop Over & St. Lucia Carnival & Campus Carnival & Barbados & Trinidad & Rupee & Nurse Karen & Vincy Mas & st. lucia carnival & ATI & Great Fete & Great Fete & Antigua Carnival & Reggae Sumfest & Spice Mas & Cruise & Carnival Nations & Mas Bands & Caribbean & Drenalin & Nite Club & business & festival & coverage & New Media | 16:24

Bring out the food and drinks to this nice cocktail party on my blog. This is the time for the Beta launch of another Corey Graham 2.0 innovation. Its an invitation only launch party. Lots of important and influencial people attending. These are my blog subscribers. Also appreciating the value of your time I am going to keep this launch within 5 mins. So let's get started. 

Meet and Greet and Getting seated (1 sec)
 Most of you are already sitting

Opening Remarks - (2 sec)
    Hi

History Behind this Moment - (2 mins)
 The Caribbean Entertainment Search started out as a personal tool which I developed to make my job easier. Its really a personal tool that I created around Trinidad Carnival time (February 2008). The list of websites to check for the info I wanted was getting a little long. I am good an google search but it was a bit annoying when searching for certian thing especially names of people in the Caribbean entertainment world. It was a bit of a pain sometimes to find some info you wanted quickly. Accomodation, car rentals, music producers, artiste managers etc. were definately not always the easiest thing to find. I used the Google Custom Search to tweak my search results so that I could see all the things I really want to see, in a single search.
After a little testing, it proved to be worth its salt from there I essentially built my own personal Caribbean Entertainment Search Engine. I only shared it with a few people who might ask for my help to find Caribbean Entertainment related info.
These ranged from people in the entertainment business to persons planning trips to Carnivals and other Festivals. One person who I gave the site to contacted me about a week ago ranting and raving about how useful the search was. It was then it hit me that I should share this search engine with other people wanting to find Caribbean Entertainment Information.
After all it will be one of the things which could go a long way in creating a more tangible Caribbean Entertainment Community, by allowing people to find the relavant information more readily. 

Feature Presentation (1 mins)

It took some time to package up, and it not perfect however its a useful tool. And I am constantly refining.

And now I present to you

www.coreykgraham.com/search  

  Its also available at

http://caribbeanentertainmentsearch.googlepages.com

Click here to add it to your iGoogle here

Vote of thanks (1 min)

I would like to thank you for attending this launch. I hope that My Caribbean Entertainment Search make life easier for you. I would like to also thank Out Of The Box Thinking for their continued support of my blog and different initiatives.

 

Thank you for coming see you at another of Launch Event before 2009! I just know there is going to be some other idea.

Corey Graham 2.0
http://www.coreykgraham.com/blog
http://mobile.coreykgraham.com

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25.04.08

FaceBook's Impact On Caribbean Entertainment

Posted in General & festivals & St. Lucia Carnival & Vincy Mas & Mas Bands & Caribbean & business & social Networking & marketing & festival & Mobile Technology & Blackberry & New Media | 13:20

Facebook has been changing the rules of engagement of entertainment in the Caribbean in a fundamental way, which we might be taking for granted.

The more established promoters might be saying,

Yeah CG 2.0, I know what you mean.

 Facebook is allowing for alot more small time/first time promoters to put together a campaign that attracts the kinds of numbers they are not yet prepared to handle.
What ends up happening, is that lots of party goers are going out to these parties and having bad experiences. This is making it harder to get persons to come out to events. In some cases people are associating a particular venue with flop parties ... and they are tonnes of similar reasons.

Not Quite the Fundamental Shift
Yes this is happening ... but that is not the fundamental shift I am talking about.
That's already happening with music production, video production and the list goes on and on. Technology is making lots of things easier for the average person to do. Its doing a good job of lowering the overhead costs to get started, and as a result, more people are doing it.

FaceBook has brought a deeper Web 2.0 experience to Caribbean Entertainment.

What is Web 2.0?
For those of you who don't know   about web 2.0 you can read all about it here on how stuff works.com. I would advise that you do read about it. Its very, very interesting.

In my own words -
Web 2.0 is a term used to dub the developments in the internet, primarily when it comes to social networking websites, and the idea of connecting people together. Basically it defines the move of the internet away from websites which you visit to get or give information, to websites which you can interact with, you can interact with with other persons online and build up or be a part of a community.  
Elements of Web 2.0 on the internet today would be

• comments. Persons commenting  on articles e.g. regular newspaper articles now allow comments online.
• blogging and RSS feeds where users generate the content
• owning your own piece of internet real estate free e.g. Myspace pages - click here
• users rating products
• sites for users of a particular product/skill/hobby. A good example of this is the rapidly growing Digital photography school

Other buzzwords that are associated are collborations, user generated content, viral, community oriented and lots more.

In terms of business, web 2.0 is causing companies well the tech savvy ones to build their websites in such a way that their customers and fans can form their own mini community where the customers

• interact with each another
• share their experiences
• post their problems
• suggest solutions to problems to each other
• notify the company of issues
• help the company in developing new products by providing feedback to new ideas or coming up with the ideas themselves
• and lots more.
• Its an eco system really more on that in a future post.

 

 This exactly what is beginning to happen to each promotion company in entertainment.
FaceBook Events has now become the standard across the Caribbean. Facebook Events are a vehicle for Caribbean party goers to connect with each other and have a conversation relating to the event no matter which part of the world they are in! Even an ordinary club night is on facebook events. 

It used to be a little harder for the average person to tune in on the buzz for a particular event. Now, its just a few clicks away on your facebook. You can hit up the event wall and see what people are saying, drop a comment of your own and see how people respond. You can check out how many people are planning to attending, and look at who is not going. And we all know how much that info will help us decide if we are going or not

This is a big, big difference from looking passively at a flyer on

• www.BoomTribe.com
• www.whaddat.com
• watever.com
• www.islandMix.com
• www.toronto-lime.com
• www.triniscene.com
• Kadooment.com
• www.Bajandancehall.com
• www.partyaccess.net

The next step was calling 10 friends or talk to your neighbourhood entertainment guru to try to get feeling for the vibe of the party. The problem is that sometimes your entertainment guru is employed to by the event so it hard to tell if the event they are suggesting is really the happening thing. Whose is when your friend looking for some action and just going to the party to meet up a new "friend". You going to hear how great the party is going to be, because they want you there for "support". I don't know about you, but I not big on that kind of "support". lol lol.

 Anyways, FaceBook Events is the way its going down now. The 3 weeks of marketing blitz radio, websites, tv and newspapers ain't going to be enough anymore.

Its not that simple anymore, people are talking to people and listening to what they are saying about the event.
Its about getting out early so that you can allow for the viral element to kick in. Yeah, watch your event spread like a virus. Let the people to interact - decide if they going - get excited and sell your event to other people. 
You can keep your ear tuned into the conversation on your event wall and find ways to get people more excited and talking more.
Just like you would in a bar when you hear people talking and your eavesdrop to hear what they think of your event. Street talk makes you tweak your promotion/event to fit your market better. It's the same with the FaceBook Wall Talk.

I consulted with an event last year, it was on facebook early, a full 5-6 weeks in advance.
The artwork was not done, sorry it was not even conceptualused yet. We were early and we let the viral element kick in. Its influence spread like a virus with each connection made. It was supported with some small things that kept people excited. The little things activated more conversations and developed new strains to the virus. 

It grew and grew and grew steadily, and evolved each week, by the time week 3 came, its momentum was unstoppable, radio ads were just another a formality. It was going up against another event with a major artiste performing in the same venue the following night. This first time event without a big name artiste and much less radio presence was holding its own.

In fact the second event asked for the artiste to show up and do a small set to promote the party the following night.
I knew the event was safe when a brand manager of a popular alcoholic breverage actually wrote a request to be contacted on the event wall. Yeah that's right and it was 1 week before the event!

I also watched it happen again and again with other events. All in different islands.  
The events were out early and let their value build and build like a virus. In some cases some more established events were struggling because they didn't work facebook as hard.

I'm just calling it how I am seeing it.

Yeah and like if all that was not enough, today facebook chat finally hit the caribbean 2 days ago.

It was actually launched almost 2 weeks ago, but it was slowly rolled out to the different networks over time.
Anyways it finally landed hit the Caribbean this week. t was the "talk of the town".
I heard people who are not very technie asking for a mobile version to the all new FaceBook.
That got me thinking hmmm, facebook might be in the number 1 spot as the Most popular mobile site in the caribbean? yeah hmmmm.

Another interesting fact is that Facebook's mobile application for blackberry is doing well too reaching 1 Million on April 1. the App was launched on Oct 24th
Download from www.facebook.com/blackberry and www.blackberry.com/go/facebook 

 

Its actually alot smoother than I expected and rather easy to use.  It was alot easier to use than the google talk broswer based chat. I was impressed.
Everyone seem to be very excited about it. Talking about moving away from msn messenger etc. Only time will tell if facebook chat will adopted over msn or other im programs. Time will tell, time will tell.
The clear advantage facebook has in its corner though are the connections. Many people have more FaceBook friends than they do on msn or any other chat programs. And your facebook friends list is ever growing.

Let's schedule a follow up post in August sometime to talk about it! I would have said July, but July is the month with 3 carnivals in it! Vincy Mas, St Lucia Carnival and Crop Over.

Talking of summer carnivals, facebook chat might add another  dimension.....
So now we have facebook chat, Lets say you have a profile dedicated to customer service for Mas bands and events, add the profile as a friend and people can ask their burning questions all day long!

Think about it - we are talking about Global customer support !

Cost?
Well that would be a grand total of $11 million dollars to set up, this system.
$0 to actually set up and $11 million to CG 2.0 for the idea. lol just kidding my ideas are priceless and never ending.
Enough of me.

For those of you with light bulbs going off in your head, just remember its not only customer support, but you can find out the concerns of your customers and fix them before you hit the road. Or have a good backup plans in case things go wrong.

I found out today that one Caribbean Business I actually incorporating FaceBook Chat in their marketing, Its actually a photo printing business Photo Finish. They are advertising support for their online ordering on facebook, using facebook chat.

Lots of food for thought. Lets see how it will evolve.


Corey Graham 2.0
www.coreykgraham.com/blog 

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20.04.08

Reggae on the Beach Warming Up!

Posted in General & festival | 16:52

I'm bringing to show to you via my Blog. Not really. I'm not ready for that yet.


Anyways


I got in, took a walk around and its not quite what I expected for a beach party,


I guess I was looking to re-live Kim Sha Beach, in St. Maarten Heineken Reggatta. Anyways BoomTribe DJs are on the set now. Time for the beach to warm up! And I got my camera so work soon start.

Corey Graham 2.0


Blog : http://www.coreykgraham.com/blog/


mobile link : http://mobile.coreykgraham.com

Sent Via BlackBerry

 

 

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20.04.08

Gone to Cover the Reggae Beach Party

Posted in General & festival | 14:46

I am off to cover the Reggae Beach Party for www.BoomTribe.com along with the Roamin Crew, and the BoomTribe DJ's on the 1's and 3's along with some other top Bajan DJ's.

The Barbados Reggae Beach Party kicks off the The Barbados Reggae Festival. Last year, the first ever the Barbados Reggae Beach Party and started in fine style headlined by International Dancehall Supersta Sean Paul.

This year's star studded cast include Dancehall Stars Tessanne Chin, Baby Cham, Wayne Wonder and T.O.K along with the local Bajan Reggae Acts Vision, Hotta Flames, Peter Ram Ayana John, Ruby Tech, J-Co Strategy feat Kirk Brown and Tejay.

The Barbados Reggae Festival climaxes next weekend with its signature event Reggae On The Hill, featuring Sizzla, Capleton, Tarrus Riley, Tanya Stephens and more. You can get check all this and more on BoomTribe.com. Including a video with an interview with Al Gilkes. Questions were by Roamin' Production Manager Rachelle Mayers, editing by Web Video Editor Runako Clarke and camera by none other than Corey Graham 2.0!

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