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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

Just had a rather crappy experience with Discover Australia – they advertised “Free Internet -Exclusive&# for the hotel we wanted to stay in, then after we booked (we sent a confirmation email with a question on the internet) said “Oh it’s just a FREE 1/2 HOUR&#. features and functionality on the hotel website.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? When you go to a conference in Manhattan, you probably seek out hotels that you’ve also heard of. How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises?

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

Review Analyst – ReviewAnalyst is a new tool that lets hotels take a proactive approach to user-generated hotel reviews, blogs, videos & images. With ReviewAnalyst, you can track, analyze and react to what people are saying about your hotel on the major travel and social media sites. Share this on Technorati.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. These videos can be very basic, from how to tie a tie , to more complex videos with multiple steps, such as skipping out on room service to make a gourmet dinner in a hotel room. Candy Soap , anyone? Answers Yahoo!

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Crowdsourced Laundry – Innocentive NASA

Laurel Papworth

I dunno what the fuss is about – when travelling, I usually wash my undies in sinks with those little bottles of shampoos you get in hotels. Technorati Tags: crowdsourced , innocentive , nasa , online community , patent , Wiki. What Constitutes an Online Community? (0). Walled Garden vs Gated Community (1).

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GoHawaii's A Thousand Reasons to Smile Makes Me Frown, Not Smile.

Bare Feet Studios

There is a contest to upload a picture of oneself smiling, for a chance to win four nights hotel in Maui and 80,000 miles on Hawaiian Air. Why have secret judges when you can have the community on the internet get engaged, give you more page views, and do the judging for you? Having a Contest v1.0 Free promo! (he’s

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round. You usually do.

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