Caribbean Ideas Blog

The power of being (reasonably) self-critical

Posted on July 19, 2012, by Chike Farrell
  

Hi folks, Another post about entrepreneurship from the Caribbean Ideas perspective. One of the things that I talk about alot with the team, is that we channel great sports teams [...]

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Team week at CI!

Posted on June 12, 2012, by Chike Farrell
  

One of the great things about having a growing team of sharp, ambitious people is when you can try to find a little time to pause and just get closer [...]

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Social Responsibility Axed

Posted on May 2, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

In March our CEO, Chike Farrell was invited to join hosts of a local morning talk show to discuss the implications of messages like the Nestle broken glass in baby [...]

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Amazon Web Services Totally Rock–FREE Virtual Machine for 1 Year!

Posted on May 1, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

  I’ve been eyeing the “Cloud” for a long time and specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS). When this service was announced and released years ago, I longed to have  a [...]

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Digital Campaign Benchmarks: Fanta’s Facebook Timeline

Posted on April 30, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

It has been a month since Facebook Timeline for brands became mandatory and sufficient time for brand managers, page administrators and marketers to have dabbled, tweaked and polished off their [...]

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SMEs: Why Your Brand Should Have A Facebook Presence

Posted on April 25, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

Recently attended an interesting session locally which targeted SMEs and discussed the reasons their brands needed an active Facebook presence. Got us to thinking about it on a wider scale [...]

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It’s an exciting time to be a developer

Posted on April 24, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this is an exciting time to be a developer. I’ve been pretty heads down with some projects that I’m currently working [...]

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Pinterest: the newest Social Media kid on the block

Posted on April 20, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

The battle of visual content providers has been kicked up a notch or few with the rise of what is being touted as the next big social media phenomenon, Pinterest. [...]

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Must haves’ for a successful Hacking session

Posted on April 17, 2012, by Gisselle Ramsaran
  

Well, I’m trying to blog as regularly as possible. I thought that I’d draw from my personal experience as a Software Architect and Engineer to put this one together. Readers [...]

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Could crowd-funding work in the Caribbean

Posted on April 12, 2012, by Chike Farrell
  

Prove me wrong. Someone, somewhere please prove me wrong. This is an open call to Caribbean government leaders, ministers of finance, public sector leaders or leaders of any special purpose [...]

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A Brand New Look – Facebook Timeline for Brands

Posted on March 15, 2012, by Chike Farrell
  

What’s on the Timeline? You may already be familiar with the new Facebook layout which was activated for personal pages at the end of 2011. If you have not noticed [...]

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To blog or not to blog…

Posted on March 13, 2012, by Chike Farrell
  

It’s quite possible that 2012 could be dubbed the Year of Outreach for team Caribbean Ideas. Our high-flying virtual team of digital magic-makers has been grounded at our new hub [...]

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