Dave Carroll was traveling on a United Airlines flight when he noticed bag handlers in Chicago throwing his Taylor guitar. Upon retrieving his luggage, he noticed the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. After months of arguments and playing the blame game, Carroll told United Air since they would not compensate him, he would retaliate and make a music video about the experience and post it on YouTube. United Airlines reponse: Go Ahead. Result: The video [...]
As a fellow blogger I have become rather versed in the ways of social media. The Internet community has become so vast and grown so strong, that a set of rules seems to have been established to promote this “cohesive social living.” The times clearly are a’ changing when the traditions of hand written thank you letters and curtsying are being replaced with tweet backs and hoops & yoyo e-cards. Here are just a few [...]
Forget Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web 3.0 is the next generation of the internet. Think of Web 1.0 as a library. You can use it as a source of information, but you can’t contribute to or change the information in any way. Web 2.0 is more like a big group of friends and acquaintances. You can still use it to receive information, but you also contribute to the conversation and make it a richer experience. [...]
My last post listed top social media trends for travel and tourism. One of the suggestions, made by Klaus Hidebrandt was to get your CEO or top executive involved in social media. The most current trend to introduce this idea? ExecTweet. ExecTweet is Twitter spinoff site that just displays tweets from select executives, making it easier to track the big shots on Twitter. It is published by ad firm Federated Media, and sponsored by Microsoft. [...]
Last week, I attended the PhoCusWright Blogger’s Summit Workshop held at the ITB conference in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was entitled “The Top Social Media Trends for Travel & Tourism” and featured a panel of 5 major bloggers. Each member of the panel was asked to provide his 3-5 top Social Media Trends for 2009: Darren Cronian Mobile Twitter: companies are going to have to become more social and interact with the consumer Travel companies [...]
Twitter, the social networking and micro-blogging service, seems to be sweeping the nation. Twitter allows users to send and view others updates (called tweets) which are 140 characters in length. Like Facebook, Twitter originally started for others to be updated on the happenings of their friend’s daily lives. The main difference between Twitter and Facebook is that Twitter encourages a dialogue, allowing opportunities to be built with people which would not have otherwise occurred. It [...]
The future of travel and destination marketing is online. Discussion boards, customer review sites, blogs, and social network sites dominate the internet today. They also play an integral part in the planning of travel. “This year, 40% of all leisure and 35% of business travel bookings will be done online. By 2010 over 50% of leisure bookings are expected to be online. The percentage of meeting planners researching and booking online is also growing at [...]
Yesterday, while listening to my favorite online radio station (usually commercial-free), I was bombarded with an ad that played after every single song for ProFlowers, an online plant, flower and gift store. It was then that I realized that Valentine’s Day has quickly shifted from a greeting card holiday, to the largest e-commerce holiday out of the year. Looking to use the internet to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Here are some ideas: · Buy your flowers, [...]
As way of an introduction, I will tell you a little bit about the purpose of this blog and the origins of it. Starting at a young age, I was exposed to different cultures and creative outlets. My father is from Brazil, my mother American, and I spent my first few years of my life living in South America before moving back to the states. I have always loved traveling and exploring the world and [...]
