Comments on: Travel Blogging Podcast: a conversation with bloggers about their craft

By: How to reach out to bloggers, and what makes us crazy « Sheila Guides You to the Good Stuff

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:25:54 +0000

[...] a podcast with travel writer and blogger Pam Mandel for Canadian tourism tech expert Todd Lucier: A conversation with bloggers about their craft. Some of your clients might find it [...]

By: How to get social media traction for your tourism blog

How to get social media traction for your tourism blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:21:36 +0000

[...] One of the comments on my rant about social media foot-dragging by much of the tourism industry was left by Seattle-based writer/photographer Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View. She’ll be my co-panelist at the Blog Highways travel blogging panel at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive tech conference in Austin. We talk all the time about travel bloggers and tourism internet marketing. [...]

By: todd

todd — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:14:29 +0000

Thanks Steve. Appreciate sending along the link that got you here. Love talking with folk who are passionate about what they do. Thanks for listening.

By: Steve Sherron

Steve Sherron — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:49:33 +0000

I wanted to compliment you and your guests about the quality of the interview and also the audio quality of your podcast. Your guests were very lively and really in to this interview. I\’ll tell you how I found your site. I have a Google alert set for video blogs. In my alert, I went to this web site, http://www.tipsfromthetlist.com/article4338.html.

This site had a link to your site. In case you were interested, that\’s how I found your site. Good work!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:05:29 +0000

Great podcast with Pam and Sheila!

By: Nathan Kam

Nathan Kam — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:32:21 +0000

Aloha Todd,

Wonderful interview with Pam and Sheila and I’m flattered that Hawaii was mentioned during the discussion. Our firm handles the public relations for the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB) and has been looking at ways to increase our new media presence in the marketplace. We’ve found great success working with bloggers over the past year and look forward to increasing our outreach to them.

Aloha,
Nathan

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nathankam

By: Nancy D. Brown

Nancy D. Brown — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:18:49 +0000

Hi Todd,
I enjoyed the podcast with Pam and Sheila. As a PR professional and a travel writer, blogger and Lodging Editor for Uptake.com/blog, I wear several hats. I’m always amazed when tourism folks blow off bloggers in favor of print publications. As both Pam and Sheila mentioned, bloggers provide immediate coverage of the tourism industry and our words remain on the internet a lot longer than magazines and newspapers.

I recommend everyone in the tourism industry check out http://twitter.com/home and follow the travel writers.

Follow me at: http://twitter.com/Nancydbrown
What a Trip blog, http://www.nancydbrown.com/

By: heatheronhertravels

heatheronhertravels — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:14:19 +0000

That was really interesting to hear about Pam and Sheila’s interactions with the travel industry. I agree with them that one of the key advantages of blogs is that they are so immediate – you can have a travel experience and write about it the same day. Also that the power of the search engines means that you can write about some Niche topic and people will find what you wrote about it. I often find that I write about some obscure guest house that’s not in the guidebooks and people find my blog post about it. At the World Travel Market in London recently I received a lot of blank looks from people who could have seen talking to a blogger as a great PR opportunity. My advice to your readers in the tourism industry is, if a blogger approaches you, seize the opportnity for some free PR!

By: Sheila Scarborough

Sheila Scarborough — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:10:34 +0000

Hi Todd,

Thanks very much for the opportunity to chat with you and Pam, and I hope our discussion provided some helpful insights for tourism professionals and CVBs.