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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

It means that more of us are doing things on the web (or mobile web, as the case may be) while we're on the go, and there are certain things those of us in the digital world look for when we travel - at least with regard to infrastructure. Their blog, Nuts About Southwest , has been a perennial leader in the corporate blogging space.

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Lessons Learned From the Traveling iPhone

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Reyhan Dhuny via Flickr, CC 2.0. So heavy of heart, frantic of furrowed brow, and voluminously vexed, I made my way to the hotel shuttle that was waiting to cart me to a Hilton-full of traveling Orgonians (that’s not a typo, that’s how they pronounce “Oregonians,&# ask Mo Sherifdeen ). That’s right.

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Technology Makes Us Lazy Communicators

Waxing UnLyrical

In this post from last May by John Friedman , he wrote about a job where he traveled across North America to discover a company had lost the plot of what it was doing. I developed a powerful friendship with Shonali because of Twitter. Image: Tina Leggio via Flickr, CC 2.0. Those relationships can and do happen. It’s amazing.

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Taking a Peek at Twitter Analytics

Social Media Marketing

I received an email recently that contained an analysis of a high-profile Silicon Valley executive’s Twitter followers, as performed by PeekAnalytics. Rather than reporting on a third person’s Twitter followers, I thought it might be more interesting (to me, at least) to take a look at a breakdown of my own Twitter followers.

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I know that travel consumers booking via my hotel website i.e. direct customers are more loyal, bring more revenue and tend to travel more often. In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% companies use Facebook and 45% Twitter.

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Memolane – A Social Media Trip Down Memory Lane

Mindjumpers

Tweet Memolane – “Your Time Machine for the Web” – is a new social media tool, which captures your entire online life in one timeline, so you can easily travel back in time and relive great memories. – Use a simple timeline to travel back in time with one click. Twitter Client For Your Browser – TicknTalk.

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For Travel Destinations: Working Well with Bloggers

Bare Feet Studios

Online social conversations cover a wide territory – from short greetings and reference links on Twitter to long form blog entries with lots of photos, links, and nuanced story telling. Light, chatty, link-sharing takes place on Twitter and Facebook. Search the tag on Twitter. The Twitter account for the LVB.

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