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The Daily Suss
We always admired Tina Brown from a distance, watching her remake Vanity Fair and the New Yorker for the new global audience. Then she smartly moved into digital media with The Daily Beast.
We loved it. The idea of a news aggregator that doesn’t simply lump the bumph that passes for stories these days has great sex appeal. When we chose to do something similar, The Daily Suss was such an obvious name for a Jamaican site that it had no competition.
We soft launched it a few weeks ago, and are actually still tweaking some sections. But we can cautiously say that all reports up to now are good.
Second week winner of YuhRate’s Valentine’s Day competition
YuhRate Valentine's Day Competition second winner Tiffany Hinds (right) collects her voucher for Chez Maria from Donnett Smith, Marketing Officer at Panmedia.
Unexpected excitement in YuhRate’s Valentine’s Day Competition
A great place fo find The Short Opinion
This week we add another website to the Panmedia Network that we hope becomes useful to all visitors who want to quickly find out what Jamaicans are thinking about on any timely topic.
Poll Jamaica, with the tagline The Short Opinion, is an online space designed to allow visitors to offer their views on anything that has current resonance in this society. Visitors can vote on both a daily poll and on those that are already archived.
A time to see what the Caribbean is made of
That earthquake dealt a collective blow to the Caribbean and once again brings pain to all the islands of this archipelago, as happens every time there is disaster in the world’s first black republic.
There is no question that we must all respond the way family ought to in times of crises. And it is heartening to see that Jamaica and the rest of CARICOM have not only done so, but speedily. We can only hope that the rebuilding will get the financial and technical support from the world to make Port Au Prince and the rest of the country a better place for all Haitians.
In Jamaica, 2009 was the year of the e-card
This year apparently everyone in business circles discovered digital holiday greeting cards, more commonly known as e-cards. They came in all sizes and shapes, some with music, some with animation. Many were template issues, but all had some unique feature that distinguished the sender. A few came from people who are tree friendly, but mostly, we are told, it was a way of saving printing costs.
Family Businesses get their own online space in PSOJ
Panmedia is developing a family business website that will be added to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s site we launched in June 2008. The online presence is part of a larger project to improve the competitiveness of family business through corporate governance, according to Project Director Sandra Shirley.
The project, Developing Modern Family Business in Jamaica, will use this section of the PSOJ site to disseminate case studies and other documentation and to engage business owners. It includes training and technical assistance for selected family-controlled, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Jamaica.
Raising Caribbean Producers Social Network profile
Caribbean Producers Jamaica has raised its Social Network profile and is now an online source for all things food and beverage. With a YouTube channel, Facebook page, Flickr photo streams and a Twitter platform to sound off, CPJ promises no shortage of information and promotions about food service distribution, wines and spirits, and hospitality.
CPJ has also added a column to its online network: “Let’s talk wine,” by Sales & Marketing Manager Devon Reid. He writes knowledgeably about the company’s wine brands both on the CPJ website and its Facebook page. His latest entry features the “extravagantly full bodied wine” HobNob.
Our Content Management Systems Wins Big Again
Drupal, the platform that Panmedia uses for our client sites, has for the second year in a row won the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. Drupal also won the best overall open source CMS in 2007 and 2008.
The Content Management System won in a very close contest between the top three, Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! in which Drupal ended up as the overall choice for the judges and the public.
Panmedia has used Drupal as a Content Management System and an application framework for six years. It is an open source platform used by companies such as FedEx, Sony BMG and the United States Government. We chose it as the best open source platform for its scalability and flexibility.
Panmedia gives Scotiabank Group a Social Network presence
Scotiabank Group this week published an extensive social network infrastructure that features Facebook pages for its lines of business and a feature rich landing page. Two Facebook ads now running, promote a free toolbar to access stock quotes, online banking and podcasts, and encourage customers and well wishers to become a fan of the Group's community.
There is a colorful animated introduction to the landing page that links to the Facebook presence.
