Dragonfly Media Curacao

We are currently looking for a full-time content editor who will become responsible for the content of a large tourism website. We will post an ad in the Amigoe (local newspaper) but wanted the give the people who are already following us a bit of a headstart.

If you’re interested you should read the ad below. The gist of the requirements is that you need to be good at writing English texts and you need to have a ‘feel’ for the tourism industry as well as a lot of experience with the internet. We would like you to start end of March / beginning of April, 2010. If this sounds like you and you’re looking for a great job in the internet business, you should apply.

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Chicas Curacao is a photo production and casting agency that recently started working in Curacao. A fun and energetic group of Chicas (girls) that provide casting services for advertising agencies and photographers, models for art productions, props etc.

They have been working for some months now and we run into the name ‘Chicas’ every now and then. photographer Daphne Vermeulen, our strategic partner when it comes to photography, works with them a lot.

Today, they surprised us with a delicious lunch, to get to know us and Advertising/Publishing agency Bas Kok better. What a nice way to leave an impression!

At 12:30 Marijn, Gitva and Marcia walked in, loaded with grocery bags and set the table. We chatted, laughed and are excited to work directly with them in the future.
Thanks & good luck Chicas!!!

This afternoon we suffered an invasion at our office. They weren’t little green men or the police but something much more sinister; the Kooyman Gifts & Garden Wedding Fair Invitation Team!

LTR: Cezanna, Raoul, Bride, Groom & Friendly Kooyman Dude

The reason they invaded our, already pretty chaotic, office was to deliver VIP invitations to their Wedding Fair opening on April 3rd. To get some promotion going for this fair they put two beautiful people in a wedding dress and tuxedo, hired a big Lexus and went to the media and their contacts.

This is a really good example of creating some good buzz on a local level. Sure, you can only reach so many people in a day this way but these people all tell their friends, blog/twitter about it, put it on FaceBook, etcetera. The word-of-mouth factor is not to be underestimated when you do something original like this.

Two thumbs up for Kooyman Gifts & Garden and we’re definitely going to their Wedding Fair to see what else they’ve come up with.

Last week, we entered the world of research…
We were taken through rooms full of bottles with crazy things in it, bones of giant whales used as chairs, stuffed animals as decorations and last but not least, a very distinct species of the homo sapiens: researchers!
Luckily we met the nice kind; they welcomed us and showed us all the necessary, interesting and wonderful work they do.

I’m talking about the people of Carmabi.
Carmabi is a foundation that researches, protects and maintains a lot of nature areas and reserves at Curacao. They also educate children, which is very, very important to preserve nature on this island and preserving nature is very, very, very important for tourism. Who wants to visit a dry, desert like island shattered with trash?
Through my former job, at an eco-tour-company, I really saw how important it is to maintain our island. I also learned how beautiful our island is. We have many natural treasures no amusement park can beat.

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A few weeks ago Theo Reichgelt started a discussion on the LinkedIn group Curacao ICT about people’s expectations for ICT on Curacao in 2009. A surprising amount of people responded to this with their expectations and their votes for organizing a get-together.

The thread was then picked up by Tom Bielsma who called for setting up a brainstorm session with drinks afterwards. The discussion was flooded by people suggesting subjects as well as commitments to coming to a session like this. The first of (hopefully more of) these sessions will be held on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 6 PM.

The location is the office of IMD at Julianaplein 26, next to Intermezzo . The subjects will be VMware (Virtualization) and Open Source. At the next session the subjects will most probably be Web 2.0 (of particular interest to us of course) and Education.

More information can be found on the Curacao ICT Network’s website.

Last tuesday we were one of the speakers at the lunch seminar “myths, facts and vision concerning the internet on Curacao” for the Curacao Women’s Network. We took care of the final presentation before lunch about the (near) future of the internet on Curacao. You can see the slides of the presentation (in Dutch) here.

In related news: one of the things we said at the presentation was that there are hardly any cross-medial websites on Curacao. The same day we said this, we heard about a new news site for young people in Curacao and Holland. This site uses a cross-medial approach to inform people about what’s happening on Curacao and appears to be pretty interesting.

The reporters are interns from Fontys Hogeschool in Tilburg (The Netherlands) and the website is set up with the help of Radio Netherlands Worldwide and local radio station Dolfijn FM. When the interns leave again to Holland their jobs are taken over by new interns from the same school so it should remain fresh and forward thinking.