Google Maps Hits The Trail – Google is taking it’s popular ‘Street View’ feature off-road and onto the nation’s expansive system of biking and hiking trails. Which, in a location like Denver, is going to take them a while. From the article: Now Google Maps is expanding to biking and hiking trails. A Google employee on a tricycle rides around to snap the same wide-area...
Tweet? This thing does not even have a screen! A prominent topic at the SATW Conference earlier this week was Twitter. Not a surprise, that seems to be the topic of a lot of conference sessions…plus Larry King Live. However, beyond the endless fawning over the darling of the internet, SATW members brought up several good points about Twitter and, frankly, social media in general. How much time...
Ah Charleston, so charming. For those of you following our tweets at @travel2dot0, you know that I am (Troy) currently in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina for the SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) Atlantic and Caribbean chapter meeting. Speaking on the topic of social media (of course) and how travel writers, CVBs and the general travel industry can learn, work with and thrive...
Fire!! Another year wiser. Technically, our birthday is on Monday, May 25th…but seeing how it is a holiday and frankly, most of us have already left work early, we thought a quick celebration post today was in order. 2 Years 419 Posts 449 Comments 256 Categories 366 Tags 2,500+ Daily Readers (well, ‘daily’ for us) 1,200 Followers via Twitter Travel 2.0 is officially 2 years old. Most...
Enough! Enough with all the new twords! The Good, Bad & Ugly of Twares – Sweet Lincoln’s mullet. Before we go much further, can we put out an official call to the travel industry to stop making up words. Forget society in general, let’s just start with travel. Really, United, Twares? (Twitter + Fares = Twares) Please, Twitter is confusing enough to explain to @oprah, let...
Twitter, how we love thee. A few weeks ago, my wife Lesley and I were waiting in line for a ride at Disneyland discussing the pros and cons of organizations, particularly tourism agencies, utilizing Twitter. After telling the tale of how we were setting up our Twitter strategy at VISIT DENVER, we both agreed that Twitter was not simply a pipeline for distributing non-stop marketing messages, but...
Baltimore, the good, the bad and the ugly...or the cloudy. The Real Side of Baltimore – From our friends at the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, comes visitmybaltimore.com. An innovative site that aggregates the social media conversations about the city into one location. Pulling in videos, photos, and tweets, the site attempts to show how locals and Baltimore fans feel...
For me, London always tops Atlanta. Sorry. With all of the coverage on TravelCom, many of you probably missed another premier travel industry conference, the Travolution Summit 2009. In fact, because the event is held in Europe, many of you probably never heard about it, let alone attended. Put on by our friends at Travolution and PhoCusWright, the single-day event is arguably one of the best travel...