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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

Situation: Internet users now spend 17% of their surfing time on social network and blogging sites, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on such sites a year ago, according to Nielsen. Over 44% of Internet users are active in social media. Social Media Asia: Ultimate Explorers Thailand (2). Wild Rock Guy NZ (0).

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. Real Estate. Foursquare!

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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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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

My favorite tidbit of info: 68% of consumers who posted a complaint or negative review on a social networking or ratings/reviews site got a response. 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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Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look.

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

But after a while, he found a group of people from a range of backgrounds – from fishermen, to a freedom fighter, to a tax collector – to take on this task. The more popular one is A Digital Nativity , but A Social Network Christmas is fun to watch as well. But having a simple yet strong story is even better.

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Win 1 of 10 Trips to The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia

ProBlogger

The idea was simple—we run a competition to bring a group of bloggers to Australia to see the Great Barrier Reef and also do a little blogging training. I also received tweets from some tourism organisations. As part of the experience, you will be required to report about your adventure on your blog and social networks.

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