How to Invest in Video:
Shooting Video (Part 1 of 3)

February 8, 2010

Online Video viewership continues to grow, making production and distribution of video a must for any tourism business serious about marketing on the Web.
ComScore reports the average viewer watches 187 videos per month in the U.S.  In the month of December 178 million people watched 33.2 billion videos.
How to Invest in Video:
There are three essential ingredients to [...]

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What if Google SideWiki was in everyone’s browser?

January 20, 2010

Google SideWiki is a plugin for Google Chrome that allows people to add comments to existing Web pages.  The comments are viewable by others using Google SideWiki in a Chrome browser.  Oh, and you need to have a Google account too!
At present, less than 10,000 users have SideWiki installed, so its usefulness is extremely limited. [...]

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Facebook Innovation: improving on Twitter’s ideas

January 18, 2010

Facebook becomes more like Twitter
It’s clear that Facebook has size and growth that easily diminishes that of Twitter.  However Facebook has been watching twitter steal quite a bit of the media limelight for it’s instantaneous distribution of news!
Facebook’s improvements on Twitter innovations have been many including:

changing of  Facebook privacy settings and terms of service to [...]

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Creating a Killer app for your DMO (podcast)

January 17, 2010

My conversation with David Janes @dpjanes (Discover Anywhere Mobile) asks the question:
Are a you Destination Marketing Organization or a Destination Make-them-spend-more-money-in-your-region Organization?
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In this 40 minute conversation, David and I cover a number of interesting content ideas for destination apps including:

underestimating the growth of mobile
understanding the needs of digital traveler
the importance of finding the right [...]

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How to Add a Facebook FanBox to your Blog or Web page (updated)

January 14, 2010

How to add a Facebook Fan Box to your blog or Web page.

From your Fan Page, Click Edit Page

Bottom right click Promote with a Fan Box

Choose the details you want to share on your page and choose where to add Widget

Paste the html code into your blog or website

If you want your Web page to [...]

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Facebook improves the user experience, now it’s your turn

January 14, 2010

from a poor, annoying Facebook user Experience . . .
By default, Facebook users receive email notification when their friends reply to status updates or comments.  If you are like me, you have replied to more than one of these emails only to have it bounce back to your inbox.  Foiled by an annoying user [...]

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Where does your spark come from?

January 12, 2010

Every day presents a new opportunity to rise and make a difference for your community.  But sometimes we need a little spark to start the fire.
Where does your spark come from?
Step Outside
Today, mine came when I strapped on my skis and headed out into winter under a bright blue sky.  It was a breathtaking 30 [...]

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10 Ways to Supercharge your Blog in 2010

January 8, 2010

1. Add a Feedburner Subscription Box.  Make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your posts by email.  Over time, you subscriber list will grow.  Think of your blog as an ongoing E-newsletter. Burn the feed for your blog at  Feedburner.google.com and monitor your blog stats.  Use the free widget to publicize your blog [...]

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Youtube: Share actions with Facebook and Twitter

December 17, 2009

The new Autoshare feature on Youtube makes it easy to let your Facebook Friends and Twitter followers to see your actions.
Choose the actions you want to share with your community and Youtube will automatically share your activities with your social network(s).
This could be a really useful way to automatically update your social networks when you [...]

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Event Planning Thoughts – extended thinking from #LeWeb with Gary Vaynerchuck

December 16, 2009

People attend conferences and events for education, entertainment and engagement – a desire to engage in meaningful conversation with other attendees and with presenters.
Gary Vaynerchuck’s presentation at LeWeb sparked a blog post on Why Livestreaming your conference is a no-brainer.  His followup interview with Gianfranco Chicco extended my thinking on the value of the conference / [...]

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