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JDIC Website To Show How Your Money Is Protected
Panmedia’s designers and developers are giving the Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation website a brand new look. The revamped site will launch in March and will utilize various online interactive techniques to encourage stakeholder engagement.
The new site is content driven and is designed to support the JDIC’s sustained public education and awareness programmes that promote the benefits and protection offered by the Deposit Insurance Scheme.
Jamaican Art Events at BlackBerry App World
Lovers of Jamaican art can now download a new mobile application from Blackberry App World that shows art exhibitions listings and covers galleries, studios, student shows, fairs, popup shops and competitions.
Podcasting For Business
Video is now the go to marketing tool, so adding podcasts to your mix makes good business sense.
Podcasts are ideal for reaching and connecting with followers, fans and customers. They’re an easy and inexpensive way to inform, entertain and add flavour to your online information.
A smart podcast should ideally be engaging, clear and consistent. Content should be precise and to the point but presented in an engaging format that builds rapport with your customers on a personal level. Whether your podcast is monthly, weekly or daily, please stick to a schedule.
Increase your reach with a mobile site
If creating a mobile website for your business is not your number one New Year’s Resolution you may want to reconsider your priorities.
We’ll share the statistics. Google reports a 400% increase in mobile searches in the last year, and 20% of its searches now are from devices mobile. By 2013, more people will use mobile phones than PCs to get online, according to Gartner. In Jamaica, our penetration of mobile devices is an astounding 107 percent, with 2.97 million subscribers.
That’s a lot of prospective customers you might be missing if your website isn’t optimized for mobile devices (BlackBerry, Android or iPhone).
Panmedia's Holiday Message
We take this opportunity to thank our clients and our associates who have shared in Panmedia’s success this year.
We will remember 2011 as productive and enjoyable. We expanded our brand and brought innovative products and services to the digital market. We plan to maintain our momentum and further fire the creativity that makes Panmedia a digital agency worth its name.
We greatly appreciate your business and wish you and your loved ones a wonderful new year!
Panmedia Launches Business Events App
Pushing innovation in mobile, social media and web development, Panmedia today launches its Business Events Mobile App for BlackBerry that puts real time resources on people’s smartphones.
Training to meet OUR's online needs
The Office of Utility Regulations is taking a unique approach to maintain its online presence. Not satisfied to simply update its site with a content management system, the agency wants to make structural changes when necessary.
So Leighton Hamilton, Director of Information Systems at OUR, opted to give his information technology staff what they need to manage their site from soup to nails. That’s where Panmedia came in. Hamilton believes his IT Department should have cutting edge technology tools to manage their site since it is integral to the OUR’s daily operations.
FAMBIZ pushing ethics in SMEs
Panmedia recently produced a training video for small and medium sized enterprise owners and managers on ethics in business. It aims to give insights in situations that are challenging for these enterprises and demonstrates how ethics decisions affect their viability.
The storyline was written by Fambiz Project Manager Sandra Shirley, with input from members of Jamaican Businesses Against Corruption. Fambiz is an initiative of the Private Sector of Jamaica to improve competitiveness of family business through corporate governance. Fambiz is supported by the Inter American Investment Corporation, the Government of the Republic of Korea, Scotiabank and Pan-Jamaican Investment Trust Fund.
The Power of Microsites
It may be a vibrant one-pager or several interactive sections, but the power in its engine, comes from its tight focus. A smart microsite works wonders for your brand. Often called a mini site, a weblet or a landing page this product or event specific online presence is an increasingly popular tool.
Major brands use microsites to feature specific products for niche markets and is extremely useful for small businesses seeking cost-effective ways to drive leads.
It gives customers the sense that they have come to a site created specifically for them.
Surrey Paving Launches New Website
Surrey Paving & Aggregates, a major player in the Caribbean construction industry, this month launches its newly redesigned and improved website.
The site is a comprehensive web friendly view of Surrey paving that reflects the company’s achievements as an industry leader. It showcases company services, the company’s ISO 9001 accreditation and recent projects displayed in a gallery format.
Surrey Paving CEO Leslie Chang says he wanted the website to better reflect the company’s recent work.
