The Travel PR Blog

OK, not guaranteed. And only for half an hour or so. But Will McInnes scored a hit recently with his 3 simple ways to beat your competition online, observing a 300% spike in visitors thanks to StumbleUpon and a few headline writing hints from Pronet Advertising. I should do that more often myself but you [...]

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I was about to give the web 2.0 talk to some national tourist office people the other day, when one stood up and asked if he could take a photo - of me, my slides, the room, everybody there. No problem, but why? Turns out his bosses in a certain land (quite far east of [...]

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I have never noticed this before but magnolia, the social bookmarking site lets its users send a little virtual “thanks” to each other. If a fellow magnoliant (I think that ought to be the word) is browsing your publicly-available bookmarks and finds anything sufficiently useful to add to their own, they can hit the thanks [...]

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Every exception breaks the rule, but I have noticed that while those US bloggers in my feed reader are mostly conscientious about blogging every day with only the occasional break for Thanksgiving or life-threatening illness, my favourite UK bloggers tend to let their blogs drift for a day or two then scramble to catch up [...]

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I am a big fan of mind maps but having paid out a major sum for MindManager from MindJet for my tablet PC two years ago, I am extremely reluctant to  open my wallet again just so that I can have the same software on my Mac. Besides, if I want to share any of [...]

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Imified is a new instant messaging service which lets you connect to useful web services via your IM client. So far I have used Google Reader to post new to do items in Backpack and added an appointment to my Google Calendar. And this post, in case you haven’t guessed, has also been imified. It’s [...]

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Hotels of the world, two bits of advice for distributing late deals: 1) publish an RSS feed, 2) create a widget. No, let’s make that three bits of advice: 3) make sure the deals are worth talking about in the first place.
A new service from Widgetbox makes the business of creating widgets ludicrously easy. Just [...]

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