Getting the Most Out of Twitter

After our extremely popular, ‘hey, why aren’t you doing this?’ post on Twitter entitled ‘How the Travel Industry Should Use Twitter,’ a sequel was inevitable.  And frankly, we owed it to you.
The one thing we did not talk about in that previous post is how VISIT DENVER…my day job…is adopting Twitter into it’s social media [...]

Random Thoughts: Why You Should Not Ignore The Wikis

As we discussed last week Google City Tours presents yet another challenge to the travel industry and should cause all of us to re-think our place in the travel planning funnel.  That discussion was highlighted by the acknowledgment that for the majority of the industry, content is the still a point of differentiation.  Open source [...]

Random Thoughts: Google City Tours

Those of you following @travel2dot0 on Twitter got a head start on our regular Travel 2.0 blog readers yesterday with the short tweet about the new Google Labs product dubbed Google City Tours.
RT @wilhelmus New from Google labs: City Tours – DMO’s and travel industry take note… http://cli.gs/7p0b8q

But, 140 characters is just not enough space [...]

Travel Trends – Impact of Destination Marketers, Silent Clickers & Social Media

The Role & Impact of Destination Marketers – Just in time for your summer reading, PhoCusWright has released a report examining the role and impact of DMOs.   Described as one of the largest reports on the subject, the study, includes a major consumer study into travelers’ use of DMO resources, a survey of 176 [...]

Travel Trends – Google Maps, Twitter, Orlando, Shoofly Pie

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 [...]

5 Tools You Need To Tweet

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 [...]

Live from the Low Country! It’s Travel 2.0!

A summary of Troy Thompson’s social media presentation at SATW: Using Social Media to Promote, Communicate & Influence.