Archive | February, 2008

28 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Speaking at Online Revealed Educational Exchange

I’m very excited to announce that I will be presenting as the keynote speaker at the Vancouver Online Revealed Education Exchange on March 13th, 2008. I will be speaking about the T-List project, the challenges of collaborating with a disparate group of bloggers, and the success of the Tips from the T-List initiative. The Tips [...]

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25 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Facilitating the Dream with Uptake (formerly Kango) – Follow-up

After I wrote the review about Kango.com I emailed Yen Lee and asked him some specific questions about getting product into Kango.com. Yen was gracious enough to answer my questions himself and provided some useful insight into how the sight may grow over time. Here are the questions and Yen’s answers: T4: How do SME [...]

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25 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Speaking in Florida on Social Media

I received confirmation last week that I have been invited to present as a keynote speaker at the Florida Association of CVB’s annual Destination Marketing Summit in Orlando. The presentation will be two hours in length and cover two segments; an introduction to social media and it’s impact on tourism marketing and strategies in using [...]

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25 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

A Lesson Learned – Big Changes at VisitScotland.com

Earlier in February I wrote about the role of the DMO and the lesson learned from VisitScotland.com. That post received a number of comments back that added more depth to the conversation. Today there was an announcement from Visit Scotland that the VisitScotland.com website would be changing the way it does busy to better support [...]

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10 February 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Engaging SME Suppliers May Not Be About Technology

I had an interesting discussion with the President of the Finnish Chapter of IFITT and a PHD student from the Basque region of Spain about engaging small travel suppliers, primarily tour and activity providers, in the use of new technologies to help manage and distribute products. I was saddened but still encouraged to hear that [...]

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08 February 2008 ~ 9 Comments

The Role of the DMO – A Lesson From VisitScotland.com

There has been a lot of discussion about the role of DMOs and how DMOs should be implementing technologies for the benefit of stakeholders. In the struggle to maintain viability and revenues, some DMOs have turned to a sales model. How does this model affect the DMO’s primary mandate to market the destination? We need [...]

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06 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Technologies presented by Eric Basha at Enter 2008

The following three videos were presented by Eric Basha, head of Tourism at Microsft, at the Enter 2008 Conference in Innsbruck. Although many of these videos have been out for a while, I wanted to address each one and discuss them in the context of travel & tourism. The first technology that Eric presented is [...]

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05 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Eric Basha Keynote Presentation at ENTER 2008, Innsbruck

The following seven videos are 8-10 minute segments of the keynote presentation by Eric Basha at the Enter 2008 Conference in Innsbruck, Austria. The presentation was excellent and provides some extremely valuable insight into the technological opportunities and challenges facing the industry. The thing that I found most relevant to small travel suppliers was Eric’s [...]

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03 February 2008 ~ 8 Comments

Best Travel Marketing Secrets – A Tips from the T-List Initiative

This was originally posted by Jens Thraenhart at the Tourism Internet Marketing blog. Please be sure to leave your comments and secrets using the Contact Form on Jens’ blog. Tourism Marketing Blog contributor Claude Benard had the brilliant idea to reach out and ask experts to share their Travel Marketing Secrets and Tips – similar [...]

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