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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Join relevant groups and join in the conversation. If you have a blog-based website (through WordPress or Blogger), you may be able to automate some of the posting process by installing the Social RSS application. As a rule of thumb, Facebook is great for local advertising while Twitter is better for targeting niche groups.

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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

Akamai Marketing

The campaign, a road tour, dubbed the “Spirit of Aloha” includes Hawaiian travel and tourism executives, 3 dancers & 2 musicians on loan from the Polynesian Cultural Center as well as Maui’s Camile Velasco of American Idol fame. The group got lots of together time as they moved along middle America on a 45-foot bus.

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. Cable and internet are very important to 25-44 year-old group 70% of online users also watch TV while online. Most travel planning self-serve online. Internet spend increased over 18% from 06 to 07.

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Jack Welch supports events and their business uses.

Akamai Marketing

By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend.

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Tool Tuesday: SocialOomph

Akamai Marketing

Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend.

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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

Akamai Marketing

While these “Tweet-Ups” are excited when 100 people show up , here’s the rub: its a group of like-minded connected people who share what they know with others, meaning for each of the people who you reach at a Tweet-Up, your really reaching at least another 50 – and maybe thousands. Everyone is doing it.

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Simply The Best

Waxing UnLyrical

That you are not an island ruling the world but, rather, one in an archipelago of quite delightful islands… that a certain group of people have visited, and been charmed by. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. That you are a law unto yourself.