As some of you were made aware in my interview of Shana from Tourism Queensland, I am chatting with some of the EyeForTravel speakers for the upcoming Travel Distribution Summit North America in Chicago this October 2010. The interviews are not only meant to be insight into the world of social media, mobile, and modern technology’s impact on the ever-changing landscape of the hospitality and travel business – but a dialog to help one another answer questions, as well as help get new ones asked. These interviews aren’t necessarily light reading (more…)
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This probably should have been multiple posts. Sorry.
Google PLACES (or where did my Local Business Center shove off to?)
One of my favorite developments in the last few weeks, aside from Google’s experimentation with populating rates of hotels into it’s maps, is Google “Places”. The blogosphere is abuzz with gentle, quiet speculation on what in the heck is going on (more…)
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I imagine this is one of the first mash ups of a live-twittered conference? If not the first, one of the only ones because this was massively, overly, insanely, time-consuming. I do think what came of it was worthwhile, and I hope this sort of serves as a testament to all we spoke about and considered during Eye for Travel SM SF 2010. First thing: I am not going to list contributor names here – I assume this is mostly for those who (more…)
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Posted by Michael Hraba under Hospitality Marketing, Social Media
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Just a quick and dirty post for some of the better articles, pages, and thoughts from the Eye for Travel conference.
I appended this so that it includes both my tweeted links, and almost every single relevant tweeted link from the conference. If I missing anything, don’t hesitate to let me know! I think this is important stuff that all begs the greater conversation of social media, where it’s heading, and what we know (or think we know). For one, I think the take away commentary is something Mr. Jameson said – “The entire landscape of the internet will be different in 5 years”. I think it’s important to recognize…. and the fact is that everything we are using is nothing more than a tool, and tools (more…)
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