Comments on: How to build interest and excitement about your community Web presence

By: Graham Ketcheson

Graham Ketcheson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:56:13 +0000

Community organized mapping idea is great – would love to organize something like this with other tourism operators in Parry Sound to promote the town and region and what it has to offer. Great to be able to hear audio versions of these ideas – I listen to them while i’m working on on other online content!!

By: Alastair Mckenzie

Alastair Mckenzie — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:01:11 +0000

I agree with Darren that, given the size of the market – both travel providers and travel consumers – in the UK, it’s astonishing how few bloggers and podcasters we have over here.

I make podcast clips for a handful of tour operators largely through the enthusiasm of one travel PR company in particular, but they don’t really use them effectively, and that’s just one PR company. (There are roughly 235 PR companies in the UK with travel & tourism clients, and I keep tabs on around 2000 travel providers.) So there’s no doubt audio & video are far from being mainstream tools in the UK travel sector.

By: todd

todd — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:59:17 +0000

Heather, couldn’t agree more with our comments. Thanks for stopping by.

Somehow, it’s ok for bloggers to post advertising to earn a dollar. I just think there are so many stories waiting to be written that would not be tainted by the dollars attached to the task.
Travel bloggers are important assets in any community. There are untapped opportunities to tell local stories and help local CVB’s understand and use WP blogs to share multimedia of all sorts.

By: heatheronhertravels

heatheronhertravels — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:36:50 +0000

Hi Todd and Darren

I enjoyed listening to your podcast. I agree with Darren that there are not so many of us UK based Travel bloggers compared to the US. I write about the different places I travel to but in between I blog about interesting things in my home town of Bristol, that a visitor might enjoy but not find in the guidebooks. Many city tourism websites would benefit from expanding to include a community orientated blog.

I predict that blogging and especially WordPress will become more popularas a tool of self-expression in a younger age group that love Facebook & Bebo. Only the other day I spent half an hour setting up my friend\’s 10 yr old daughter up with a WordPress.com account and she is now ready to record the things she enjoys. I think WordPress should be taught in schools along with Excel & Powerpoint.

I agree that we bloggers shouldn\’t be so shy about payment for our hard work, but the thing that makes blogs powerful is their independent voice, which we often worry will be tainted by money. On the other hand PR businesses should realise that they can get plenty of coverage for relatively small sums if they approach it the right way.

By: todd

todd — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:41:51 +0000

Hey Craig,
Thanks for stopping by.
Yes, there is an iTunes link in the middle side bar. (just above the twitter what am I doing box) I’ll try to make it more prominent as well as add link for other rss podcast tools. Although I’m not sure what the most frequently used non-itunes podcast catchers are?

By: Travel Rants in video blogging and podcasting

Travel Rants in video blogging and podcasting — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:09:46 +0000

[...] earlier in the week I was had my first podcast interview with Todd Lucier, of the Tourism Keys Podcast. I’m a typical Yorkshireman so I talk at 60 miles an hour and I do waffle on and on and on. All [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:51:06 +0000

Hi Todd,

I’d love a download or “subscribe in iTunes” link to go with this online streaming. Any chance of the mp3 being linked? (Or am I blind? It’s happened before.)

Thanks heaps!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:46:14 +0000

Great interview! Thanks so much for the shout-out, as we’ve never actually discussed this walking/mapping event in-person. We’re always on to the next thing.
You’re doing important work with this blog/podcast brother.
Very proud of you.