plethora of industry reports indicates that travel and tourism are back, and, by the end of 2011, will be better than ever. While there are numerous social applications that help travelers to connect and collaborate there are none that actually change the travel experience, until now! The Travel Industry Is Booming! Revenue is expected to reach nearly $1.4 trillion, a record, says Toon van Beeck, senior analyst at research firm IBISWorld. This means the opportunity in the sector will be “the biggest it has ever been. &#. percent, to 94.7 million; domestic trips will rise 1.2 MORE >>

New categories this year include Most Effective Tablet Application; Most Effective Mobile Advertising Platform/Network; Most Effective Campaign from a Mobile Operator; and Most Effective Mobile Publishing Solution. The full list of categories is as follows: Most Effective Mobile Application – b2c. Most Effective Mobile Application – b2b. Most Effective Tablet Application. Most Effective Mobile Travel & Tourism Solution. A last call for entries for the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards organized by Mobile Marketing Magazine. Recognizing results. MORE >>

am experimenting with the new uStream Producer “desktop application.&# It allows me to record and live stream at the same time, while mixing in graphics, etc. You’ll see a small attempt at that at the end. Over time you will see many different forms and iterations of these web cam chats as I am using them to explore both my interactions with you, the visitor, but also the technology available to us. am not seeing my voice in sync with my lips – do you see that glitch too? Please leave me a comment. IMO) Aloha, Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading! Hawai?i MORE >>

This, for successful applicants, turns into an interview (which is where I came in). Before I went in, I had a bit of a think as to the things that I would look for in a graduate (and therefore an applicant), and with the help of two friends in HR ( @greg_savage and @LucyChisholm for the Twitterati), have compiled a list as to the things I think will separate the good communicators from the industry reputation-soiling spin merchants that we are (unfortunately) more commonly represented as. It was eye opening to say the least. An ability to listen. Knowing social media. Lets play. MORE >>

Probably the most useful current development is in the application of Latent Semantic Indexing, which does not rely on word count but is a form of part of speech analysis. Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay? November 18th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Seth Duncan As a researcher in the PR industry, I couldn’t be more excited about some of the advances I’ve seen around automation in media measurement over the past several years. pts Settings. MORE >>