Digicel General Manager Barry O'Brien

I like to be treated good as I am sure most of you like to be. A few drinks, hor d'ouvres and some blackberry cake is a good start for me.

A couple weeks ago I attended the launch of the first ever Mega Store and Blackberry Centre in the Caribbean at the Digicel Barbados, Broad Street Branch.  I was greeted at the door by the Digicel Girls who I must say were well presented and looking good. No, No it was not only me that commented about them other people said the same thing. It set a good tone for the evening.

I after I slipped my business card into the pool for the blackberry draw and entered the event.  I started my mingling and networking catching up with a few people and in a few minutes the speeches began with the new Marketing Manager Janelle Hunte acting as the Chairperson for the evening. After a few speeches the ribbon was cut and we entered the new mega store where they gave away a few blackberry compliments RIM-Blackberry. Corey Graham 2.0 name was not pulled oh no I am not bitter at all. I was not really hoping to win another blackberry.

Actually I was looking to see if I could get the Blackberry Experts in the booth and asking them a few questions so that i could grasp what the Blackberry center is all about.
Yeah that's my story and I am sticking with it. If you sensed me being a bit sharp that the reason why.

Lol really though  There were 2 Digicel Experts on hand who did seem to know their stuff when I got to talking with them. They were not behind the booth but they were approachable.

Getting serious again,
 I have to commend Digicel for launching this initiative which is really, really needed here. I was reminded of how much it was needed just a few deays ago when I got a call that went something like this

Sexy voice come on the line

"Hey Corey. How are you going?"

  "I am pretty how are you doing?

"Well my husband has a problem with his blackberry and I know you are a Blackberry Freak can you help me …."

LOL….
Please, Please let it be known that I am always glad to help, I enjoy the gift of being able to do my good deed each day, but … anyways I will deal with that later.

I am just trying to establish there is great need for Blackberry owners to be able to take their Blackberry woes to someone who is readily available.
As a technie, 2 of the most important features when I am deciding on an important and hard working little black electornic device are

• warranty
• support.

You must be able to get some assistance when things go wrong. And if you know electronics you know what I am talking about. From that background, any initiative for enhancing customer support gets my vote. Again I commend Digicel on this initiative which they said they turned around in 3 months time and RIM-Blackberry came on board. Be proud of yourselves.

Now in terms of the mega store. Let me say that Blackberry cake was really, really good. Now the mega store hmm, well I didn't really grasp the reason why it was now being called a mega store? But with Christmas such a just short time away, let's give Digicel some space to see what they have in store for us for Christmas time this year. I mean with CEO talking about Digicel building a wimax network, providing PBX services and working on providing landline services, only time will tell what this Mega Store thing truly is.

You can take a listen to Digicel's General Manager Barry O'Brien speech which tells the story of First ever Digicel Mega Store and Blackberry Store.

Corey Graham 2.0
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Here is you opportunity to come over to Barbados for a weekend getaway and enjoy a great concert! 

This is my package in association with The Palms Resort. If you come you benefit and I benefit.

My share in the benefits will help me to keep bringing you some great stuff. 

Check out The Details below -

A Reggae Weekend Get-AWAY In Barbados Dec 5 – 7

Take a break from the hustle and bustle and enjoy a weekend at the Palms Resort. In VIP style, attend one of the bigger events on the Barbados Event Calendar – The Hennessy Artistry Show Featuring Jah Cure, Tarrus Riley and Duane Stephenson!

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You know me always evolving and always doing something new. This homepage will make light work of pulling all my projects and initiatives together.

Check it out – www.coreykgraham.me

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I just got invited to Google Wave. Well I can't do much I need other to jion me. I can't make a comment on a collaborative tool until I well collaborate. If you don't know this already this is Google's major product they are bring to market which they expect we revolutionize the way we use email and instant messenger etc online. Before I comment as i said before I would have to collaborate with those of you who are brave enough to ride the wave of new technology.

So  I am offering you my readers the chance to join me on this new wave to technology, just leave a comment if you want to be invited to Google Wave.

Oh come with a new idea that we can collaborate on … I mean come on its only good business.

Learn more about Google Wave here – www.google-wave.com.

If you have already let me know so I can add you!

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Notice to my Vincy people : -

Invest SVG” and The Ministry of Culture is hosting an International Music Seminar and Workshop…please spread the word to Vincentians who would like to attend.

The music and video seminar will be held from November 4th to November 6th at the Methodist Church Hall,9;00 am to 4;00pm Seven international record and publishing company executives and video production personnel will make up the panel for the three day seminar/workshop,including practical one on one sessions with attendees. Additionally we would be having an artist showcase at Escape bar on the evening of the 6th.
Here are the list of panelist coming to the seminar.

Music Manager – Ivan Berry (Toronto, Canada)
Music Publisher – Vivian Barclay – Warner Chappell Music (Toronto, Canada)
Artist Video Director / Stylist – Robert Brown (Bobby o’neill) (Miami, USA)
Music Promotions Expert – Jonathan Ramos REMG (Toronto, Canada)
Record Company Executive – David Wright – Def Jam Records (Los Angeles, USA)
Music Producer / Songwriter – Justin Forsley – ole (Toronto, Canada)
Songwriter / Vocal Arranger – Rupert Gayle – ole (Toronto, Canada)

Panelist travel info:

Wednesday, November 4th – Opening Cipo,Copyright,Fashion and Stylist
Thursday, November 5th (9am-2pm) – Music/Video Seminar & Workshop Day #1
Friday, November 6th (9am-4pm) – Music/Video Seminar @ Workshop Day #2
Saturday, November 7th –
Sunday, November 8th – Depart St.Vincent for home

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Hey people, its been a very long time in coming in coming but I have finally written my bio. I have been putting it off for sometime. This has been one of the hardest topics for me to write on in recent times! 

If you don't have a bio as yet yourself I suggest you get to work now. Its always good to put yourself out there so that you can attract like minded people.

Anyways I am sharing it first with you my readers, before anyone gets to see it.  Let me know what you think see it below!

BIO

My deepest passion is to assist in building up the Caribbean Community and I plan to do this by making use of my skills in marketing, social media and business. Professionally, I have worked with Alt Entertainment Inc. and BoomTribe assisting them in their quest to develop a Caribbean Music Industry by producing compelling Caribbean entertainment content for TV, Radio and the web. I have held the positions of Digital Content Manager, Community Manager and Content Marketing Manager over the 3 years I have spend with them. Essentially, I was responsible for getting all of Alt Entertainment's produced content, onto its online platform, BoomTribe.com, share it with the BoomTribe community and market it to the rest of the world. Over my time at BoomTribe I filled roles of marketer, photographer, writer, video editor, video producer, video & TV host and more when need arose. I was pivotal in developing the new BoomTribe.com which was launched in Jun 2009, and was greeted with open arms by the public. It was designed to make it easy for Alt Entertainment to share its content and also highlight all of BoomTribe's brands and products.

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Its the start of a new work week and I thought I would share this video from with you. Monday is a high time for meetings and in some cases meetings that are not necessary or have lost their whole direction months ago.
Whether you have a job or you are your own boss I am sure that you will find this video hilarious!

If you are the one in charge of the meeting you might want to take a look and see how that meeting could be better.

Have you experienced this though?

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All reports have said that the Bedy Oceanline Ferry Service is to start in October 2009.

I have been getting countless request to find out the latest on this cheaper way to travel between Caribbean Islands, and I am deciding to jump on it.

Yesterday as I passed the Barbados port and saw a vessel of a similar class to the one in the photo above docked in the Barbados port. Now with one more wee in October left to go, I am wondering just want is going on? Do you know?

One story I heard is that it might be delayed but that source is far removed from the source.

What have you heard? Leave a comment!

I am working on getting you an actual photo stay tuned.

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Photography By Corey Graham 2.0

Its important that we share.

I wanted to leave you with this thought as you get started on the final day of the work week. We speak of sharing constantly these days. Especially, since the advent of facebook and social media. We are constantly sharing photos, videos, thoughts and ideas with each other via the worldwide web. This level of sharing has never been seen before in the history of mankind!
Stop for a few moments and appreciate just how big sharing have become in this 2.0 world.

@ShanzBarhopper reminded me on twitter today of a moment in time about 2 years ago when I shared a simple concept with her. Not my brainchild but a philosophy that totally I buy into :-

Don't work HARD – Work SMART

She mentioned that this thought did was a huge help in her getting through some rough times. My act of sharing helped her to reach to the point that she is at today. This was a very real reminder for me of just how important and impactful sharing can be for others!

That's where this post is coming from!

Fear is not good for sharing … 

Scared. Yes you, Are you scared to share? You never seem to find the right time to what you have to say? 
Sometimes we get very scared to express the things we are feeling inside us. When expression is combined with the act of sharing, the power created can heal you and strengthen your spirit. You will also grow wiser as you get different perspectives on the thoughts and ideas you have in your head. Your mind gets stretched beyond its usual bounds and wisdom falls upon you.

I know that my blog posts have inspired and sparked ideas in others and for that I am most grateful. 

I ended up writing a blog post after that situation - Give Yourself Permission To … Work SMART. @ShanzBarhopper only stumbled upon today  check out her comment and see what she had to say.

On that note, take time to truly share and feel good for helping others around you.

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Feedback is important and important too in every day life. It helps us to know what is working and what is not working and it helps to understand those around us. Those of you who are serious about your websites or blogs know this oh too well especially if you are interested in making cash from them.

Just for you here  are some of the latest updates to Google Analytics. This post will still be very eye-opening for any of you who are in business.

You are now able to to track engagement goals, time on site and pages per visit. Now for those of you who are not familiar, time on site is the amount of time a vistor spends on a site and pages per visit is the number of pages a visitor viewed on a particular visit. As you can imagine both of these would give a website owner great insight to how visitors are interacting with their site. Having the ability to now set goals kinds of goals I believe is a big deal for any Caribbean website owner, or any website owner targeting persons in the Caribbean market. As we are are all just learning and immersing ourselves in the online world. Website owners targeting the Caribbean Market much play close attention to how people are interacting with their site and work smart.  Setting these engagement goals will give tremendous insight to how people are using your site. Having been the content manager for BoomTribe.com I know how difficult it is to have a million things to add to your site and still have to find the hours to really study and understand your analytics. This is like a breathe of fresh air.

In a similar way, google is making it easier for website owners and bloggers to get alerts highlighting variations from the expected trend or changes to the website. This will be also useful in alerting you when something might have gone wrong on your site, when a page stops loading or there is a problem with a particular link.

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