We’ve made a few Changes…we’re now at SiliconCaribe V3.0

Over the last couple of months we’ve had some ups and downs from server crashes to slow post production to changing out our site design. Thankfully that’s behind us and totally solved. Today we’re happy with where we are. Based on a year’s worth of analysis on what you our readers want to know, what you find useful, debatable, linkable and what really gets you commenting like crazy and viewing repeatedly- we’re focused on 9 main categories – Tech News, Social Media, Mobile, Startups, Entertainment, Business, How to Lists and Travel We will be posting a mixture of original articles daily starting tomorrow ( Tuesday), including weekends. We are also introducing some new voices in the form of more guest bloggers, as well as syndicating some great stuff. We’ve really appreciated your feedback and we’ve used it to inform our new editorial calendar.

Travel Tuesdays

We’re introducing Travel Tuesdays, as part of our editorial calendar -the Caribbean’s Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry, our leading hard currency earner and we’ve been curious for a while as to what they’ve been doing online and with technology especially since over 70% of travel decisions are now made online not via expensive magazine and television ads. So we’ll be talking travel tech every Tuesday but not solely on that day.

Expanded Events Listing and new Job Board

We’ll be expanding our Events listing to add more recommended events online and offline in Jamaica, the Caribbean and Worldwide and you can add yours for free by sending details to ingrid at connectimass dot com. We’ve added a Job Board so you can post Jobs – US$50 for a month (5 listings) | Services – US$90 for 3 months | Tech related items For Sale – US$25 for a month (5 listings).

Ads are back and the introductory rates are a steal!
We’re also brought back our ad spaces and we have three sizes for you to choose from,
1. the standard – 468 x 60 pixels starting as low as US$5 a day
2. the rectangle – 300 x 250 pixels starting as low as US$5 a day
3. the small square – 125 x 125 pixels starting as low as US$4 a day
To book your ads, email Ingrid Riley at ingrid at connectimass dot com.

Our Event Kingston Beta is growing significantly in visibility and reputation regionally and internationally. We’re attracting globally renown tech entrepreneur, speakers and experts like Marc Canter, Founder of Macromedia who presented at the last one and we’re ending the year being one of the main events of Global Entrepreneurship week. The next Kingston Beta is scheduled for the last Thursday in this month, August 26th, 2010 and of course we’re always open to Caribbean startups who want to pitch wherever they are in the world.

Our Readers and Online Community
Thanks so much for your continued loyalty. Thanks to all of you 20,000 people who read us monthly, the 530 people who follow us on twitter and the community we’re growing on our Facebook Fan Page. Do, be generous, share us with your friends and colleagues.