Hraba Hospitality Consulting

My friend Marc inspired me to post the links and lessons so we can learn from the @ryanaironline spoof.  My blog article is a few posts down, but here is the fun stuff with the Telegraph, Times Online, etc.  I am including Marc’s comments too.  It was really fun, and I think I feel mighty comfortable sharing this on a professional level.  No it won’t be on my resume, but I will have a (more…)

The below text is from Flickr to a user.

Hello,

Flickr account “framesdirect” was deleted by Flickr staff for violating our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

# Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.

Flickr is for personal use only. If we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account.

-Terrence

My question… how are these hotels and brands getting away with using flickr for business purposes, or better question:

How long before Flickr further cracks down on businesses and starts deleting accounts?

Anyone that understands this complexity with flickr, please (more…)

I cannot believe how alone I feel in my concern over the future of social media.  No one, it seems, wants to talk about it.  Beatrice Tarka with Mobissimo teetered precariously close to an incredible conversation, offering a seemingly benign nugget of info (at least how it was received):  You may have to start preparing to pay for your brand presence on twitter.  They desperately need to monetize, and this is the quickest, ways to do so,  if not a dauntingly difficult task to achieve.

I am massively skeptical though.  Much of this is simply about marketing, not so much utilizing the tools or talking about social media so much as a how-to primer for positioning your brand on Facebook and Twitter.

Personally, I am incredibly worried about this… putting so many (more…)

A hashtag may be all you need nowadays.  I must admit, for being a social media conference, I am not talking to people.  Of course…. it might just be my nature, and I might not need social media at all to do that.  =)

Onward we go!