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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10.11.08

Grenada - Trinidad Ferry To Set Sail for 2009

Posted in Corey Graham 2.0 & Caribbean & business & Mobile Technology & coverage & personal growth & thinking and ideas | 09:48

I am just came across the announcement by the Grenadian Tourism Minister, Peter David that there will be a ferry service between Grenada and Trinidad to begin in the early part of 2009. Apparently its the government of Trinidad that is providing this service accomodating approx 600 persons. He also said that St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia will benefit from this service which is expected to improved the economy and relationships between these islands.

All i can say is wow!
Its not that long ago, April fools day to be exact that I was lovingly playing a joke on my readers about a Cruising The Summer Carnivals Of The Caribbean. Imagine by early next year we can be able to move around the islands a little cheaper than before! 

Just a few days ago LIME announced they are offering free Roamin throughout the Caribbean. Now we are going to have  ferry going between the islands?
Imagine what that can do for our businesses. It will be alot easier to move bulky stuff around.
Think about it! You can take you car to another island for the weekend? You can take something you made in your homeland and sell it in a neighbouring island? I mean really think about the possibilities. 

I say again, times are changing!

Corey Graham 2.0
www.coreykgraham.com 

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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

  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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05.05.08

Summer Time 2008 - What's De cool?

Posted in General & soca & Trinidad Carnival & festivals & Corey Graham 2.0 & Crop Over & St. Lucia Carnival & Barbados & Vincy Mas & st. lucia carnival & ATI & Antigua Carnival & Reggae Sumfest & Spice Mas & Mas Bands & Caribbean & coverage | 18:08

Yeah, yeah

Well summer is officially here.

My research department tells me that we in the Caribbean have 2 seasons, a dry season and a wet season. The dry season is from November - May and the wet season is from June - November (when we are likely to have tropical depressions, storms or hurricanes which generally means ALOT of rain!

Looking at this you would think that conventional wisdom would dictate our the summer falling somewhere in the dry months of the year especially when there is not much of a possibility of a hurricane. Another angle might be to argue that the longest days of the year must be summer. This would mean out summer is in the right place May - July months. Its possible though that the summer comes from a learned habit from our past European colonial masters? All the students in the caribbean have their longest vacation period during these months ... My research department is digging deeper. I will let you know if we uncover anything else...Something to think about.

Right so as I was saying summer is here, and lots going on Vincy Mas, St. Lucia Carnival, Reggae Sumfest (JA), ATI weekend (JA), Great Fete(Tobago), Crop Over (Barbados), Antigua Carnival, Spice Mas (Grenada) and tonnes of other shows and parties. I feeling the theme song "Out on De Road" by Zan

There is alot of buzz going on about this years summer, there are going to lots of new events and new chunes in abundance. My personal phrase for this summer is 

  Whas de cool?

Click here for the first Corey Graham 2.0 Podcast  -

It that simple,

Oh I have to give it a meaning?
hmmmm let me see

How are you toning down all this summer HEAT?

For those of you who might want to use this coooool idea - email me and get your cheque book ready we can talk.

Let me know what you think of my first real effort at a podcast

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

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23.04.08

Coverage : Barbados Reggae Beach Party 2008 Round Up

Posted in General & dancehall & reggae & BoomTribe & coverage | 18:14

All in all,the show turned out well. Most people seem to think it was just ok - not necessarily like they were blown away, but not a waste of money.

I enjoyed it, It was my first time taking photos in a while, well in Barbados that is. I was a little rusty but the love for photography is still there. The performances were generally good also. It was T.O.K. and Baby Cham that really took the fete to another level.

I didn't get to spend as much time backstage as I would have liked because i ended up stuck in the VIP area for almost an hour, because there were people crowding around the door.

All in all though its just the second year for this event and its looking very promising, connecting with the target market and branding is definately there. The numbers are attending the event. They were no major problems that would deter people from going back again a second year. I am sure in coming years that the Barbados Reggae Festival package would have big appeal to reggae lovers worldwide

Check out the gallery on BoomTribe.com I took with Jaryd Niles Morris, Visual Communicator - Flickr and blog

P.S. Also check out my Review from the Heineken Reggatta in St. Maarten click here 

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