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The End of the Destination Web and the Revival of the Information Economy inShare639 In recent weeks journalism and the future of all media have once again gone under the knife. Experts on either side of new media debated whether or not Twitter’s CNN moment truly was indicative of the future of journalism. Twitter’s role in the spread of online dialogue speculating the death of Osama Bin Laden was studied at great depths to better understand when and where news actually surfaces, how it’s validated, and how news travels across the Web and in real life. Perhaps nothing visualized the power of a single Tweet with such dramatic effect as the network graph developed by SocialFlow.
Hotel Blogs - Let's talk about hotels: VoyagePrive enters the US The European online travel "private deals" website VoyagePrive enters the US market this week. As some of you know, VoyagePrive is only available to members who have been introduced by their peers to receive a weekly newsletter about preferred deals VoyagePrive negotiates with suppliers (Tour Operators, Hotels...). The private outlet model has been booming recently at all levels.
How Tech and Social Media Are Changing Travel [INFOGRAPHIC] It's spring break and summer is just around the corner, which means vacation season is upon us. From mobile apps to deal sites, people use technology more than ever to help find places to go. Technology also helps vacationers enjoy themselves after they reach their destinations. But just how much is technology changing the way we travel? Nearly one-third of social media users have used a mobile app to find good prices for flights and hotels, and 15% have downloaded an app specific to a certain trip, according to a survey by the market research company Lab42. 10 awesome digital marketing campaigns from Nike Following on from Andrew Warren-Payne’s post looking at various digital marketing campaigns from McDonald’s, I thought it would be interesting to take a similar look at one of the world’s biggest sport brands. Nike has achieved a great deal of brand exposure from its excellent digital campaigns, particularly through social, and here are 10 of the best examples. Many of them tie into its overarching #MakeItCount initiative and the Nike+ network, but others are memorable viral videos or interesting social competitions. So here they are...
The Human Algorithm When I became a reporter, almost 20 years ago, my job was to dig up scarce, precious facts and deliver them to a passive audience. Today, scarcity has been replaced by an unimaginable surplus and that audience is actively building its own newsroom. Journalists the world over are struggling to cope with a social and mobile tsunami of ‘user generated content’, to use an increasingly inadequate phrase. Twitter and YouTube will overwhelm news organisations who can’t master their potential. A common mistake for those seeking to cope with this profound disruption is to confuse technology with innovation.
Why to be proud of The Travel Talk on Twitter - #TTOT! This article is about what WE have achieved! The Travel Talk on Twitter is THE biggest weekly travel event on Twitter! A pat on your back! This was only possible, because the Twitter travel community decided to get it there. We've created an event, which is run by the community! Social Travel Agency Recommends Vacations Based On Hashtags [Video] As part of its promotions for its All-in-1 Travel package Vodafone Netherlands created a social travel agency that provides travelers with destination suggestions based on popular travel-related hashtags. Travelers can log on to #Hashtag Holidays and select their dream holiday based on popular hashtags from major cities in Europe. The site uses an algorithm to analyze the different geographic locations of hashtags related to eating, partying or shopping. Some of the hashtags that the site analyzes include #foodporn, #YOLO, #romantic, #shopaholic, and #partyhard.
Announcing People and Content Discovery Posted on August 2, 2011 by william We’re calling this latest slew of features Eqentia+, in sympathy with GooglePlus. Our users have been asking for people and content discovery to go alongside our contextual and actionable content indexing, as well as increased social media integration points. We have responded with the following innovative new features. How To Get Paid To Travel {*style:<b>Photo </b>*} It’s easy to enter, just email your original travel photo and/or article along with a title and where the photo was taken for the photos to with “Photo Contest Entry” or “Travel Article Entry” in the subject, and we will notify you via email when your photo is live and available for voting. . If you would like a link back to your blog or website, include that in the email as well. Once your photo and/or article is live be sure to share the link with all your friends so they can vote too. The deadline for entries for the next contests is January 15th.
Flight Centre - Home page Web Content Producer - Digital Distribution // Omni-ChannelSummaryThe role of the Web Content Producer requires proficiency in writing, editing, and web production skills to provide the efficient and timely publishing of website content for FC USA digital properties. The website content is an integral part of overall omni-channel marketing. As such, the Web Content Producer must interact across FC USA teams as well as external vendors.As a member of the Digital Distribution & Omni-Channel team you will report directly to the Online Marketing Manager, and overseen by the Vice President.General Responsibilities include:• Write engaging high quality Search Engine Optimized (SEO) content for web pages that are accessed through search engine results pages. Content curation: computers and humans creating collaborative intelligence We don’t have a problem of “information overload”… we have a problem of “filter failure”. And even as you’re reading this massive money is being spent to create better filters. And the best filters are those which allow humans and computers to both do what they do best… in a new thing called “collaborative intelligence”. Content Curation. We’re starting to hear about it all over the place! But what is it?!
How Reality Television Shapes Travel Last fall, the New Jersey Defamation League that’s driving much of recent cable television sent several of its members on a mission overseas. When The Real Housewives of New Jersey began a two-episode trip to sunny Punta Cana, its Soprano-manqué cast hit the Dominican Republic running. First, airport personnel came scurrying to remove housewife Jacqueline Laurita, teetering on high heels after an in-flight happy hour, from a baggage carousel she had mounted to search for a loudly lamented “one missing luggage.” Then, for the short trip to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana, the crew took a narco-cartel fleet of huge black SUV’s—their convoy abruptly halted when Joe “Juicy” Giudice interrupted a driver, saying, “Hey, amigo.... I gotta take a pee-pee.” Just after the Dominican Republic–set Housewives episodes aired, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana recorded a 300 percent spike in Web traffic.
The Great Hospitality Three-Way: How Hotels Really Work As of yesterday, five big resorts, including the Homestead in Virginia, Barton Creek in Austin, Tex., and La Costa in Carlsbad, Calif., shed their independence and joined Omni’s Resort Collection. Business travelers encounter this all the time: A hotel they’d been staying at for years suddenly changes brands. What used to be a Westin is now a Wyndham (WYN). A Hyatt (H) becomes, almost overnight, a Marriott (MAR). Brand changes are often the only visible result of what is usually a three-way transaction that defines how hotels are owned and managed today. Scratch the marble-and-brass surface of today’s hotels, and things are trickier than they may appear.