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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: discover australia , hotel , hotelsmag , Marketing , social media , tourism , Travel , york Fairmont. Twitter: Who tweets in your organisation? (1). PR in Global Economic Crunch (1). Wild Rock Guy NZ (0).

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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

Bare Feet Studios

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the Cluetrain Manifesto and the now decade-long march toward transparency in communication and marketing. Hawaii tourism officials would do well to read the book. Compare this to the Queensland Department of Tourism, who created the World’s Greatest Job contest.

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Brain Crack, Innovation, Leadership | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Three years ago, when Twitter was a tight knit community of tech and communications early adopters, we literally begged them to charge for the service. As late as November, 2008, Guy Kawasaki ran a poll and over half still said they would be willing to pay – despite the usual snark attack common by internet communities.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Its so easy to think that because their are millions of blogs (and if you check out Technorati you’ll see that I am write right.) Then live it.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. I just think that the *active* cruise community is definitely a bit disappointed.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle. It happens in religious communities too. You usually do.

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