Caribbean Events

October 2010: 6th Annual Sun, Sand & CTAM Educational Event

Past Events Recap

January 27, 2010: CTAM Caribbean Marketing Session at the Caribbean Show

GetDigital! Shelly Palmer's Digistal Power User Boot Camp

The CTAM Caribbean session at the Caribbean Show, featured an interactive keynote with Shelly Palmer of Advanced Media Ventures Group. Shelly is a go-to source on all things digital and he has worked extensively with the Caribbean and Latin American markets. Sixty-five attendees from across the Caribbean region learned many valuable digital skills including building online social networking techniques. For daily digital news, visit shellypalmer.com.

Shelly Palmer will help you become more competitive and more productive in the digital economy of the 21st century. Today, everyone with a computer and a connection to the Internet can create text, graphics, audio and video content and instantly distribute it to a worldwide audience. Through a series of lectures and demonstrations, you will learn how consumers are empowered by digital technology, how they are using the medium and how this technological transition is changing the way you do business in the 21st century. Special attention will be paid to using digital skills to identify and take advantage of new business opportunities and the practical guidelines, ideas and tech-niques will be immediately applicable on both a personal and business level.

Shelly Palmer is the host of "Digital Life with Shelly Palmer," a weekly half-hour television show about living and working in a digital world which can be seen on WNBC-TV’s NY Nonstop Tuesdays at 10p Eastern and online, and the host of " MediaBytes," a daily news show that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and the President of the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

5th Annual Sun Sand & CTAM
San Juan, Puerto Rico
October 1-2, 2009

CTAM Caribbean’s 5th Annual educational event was a success with 31 attendees converging in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Caribbean Operator executive panel discussed advanced services and strategies they’ve employed to remain competitive, as well as how they’ll differentiate
themselves to maintain growth in 2010. In the afternoon, CTAM’s Dana Fragnoli-Piteo gave a special presentation on Life Stages and Life Styles, the recent CTAM Research study.

The previous night, attendees gathered at Baru in Old San Juan to enjoy a special social networking event. A guide from Legends of Puerto Rico gave a lively presentation to the group about Puerto Rican rums and cuisine, complete with tastings of both!

CCTA Annual Meeting– January 27-29, 2009

January 28, 2009 – NASSAU, BAHAMAS – CTAM Caribbean presented the CCTA Annual Meeting marketing session and brought back marketing veteran John Zamoiski (NMA Marketing Associates) to present “The Ten Commandments of Employee Motivation”. An audience of 30 programmers and cable operators from around the Caribbean region attended and took in the great info, pointers, and success stories that John shared. In addition to motivating employees through incentives and rewards, John discussed the different types of
contests that can be utilized with both employees and customers, and what sort of results they produce.

It was fantastic seeing many Chapter members in the Bahamas at our table in the Exhibit Hall. Congratulations to our CCTA raffle winners! Laurie Silverman from TV GUIDE won the coveted Coach handbag raffle for new members - welcome to the Chapter! And Beulah Jonis from ST MAARTEN CABLE won the Sony camcorder raffle for current members.