I have just finished talking at the New Zealand Community Newspapers Conference. It was a thoroughly enjoyable hour and I think stimulated a bit of grey matter given the level of questions and feedback from the floor. The theme of the presentation was social media. Great venue in the Rydges ...
I have just returned from a week in Manchester at the World Youth Student Tourism Conference where I was the official blogger. It was great event overall. The one thing for me, however, was the lesson in blogging that I received....
I enjoyed a fascinating presentation today at the WYSTC conference in Manchester by Technology Futurist Lee Crockett (committedsardines.com) on just how the "digital generation" think. According to Lee there is a whole type of human beings (primarily those under 25 but not necessarily) whose brains ...
Today is the start of the World Youth Student Tourism Conference (WYSTC) in Manchester and this years theme is "innovation". The first major session started with a panel discussion on the broad term of innovation - which unsurprisingly quickly took on a theme of social media. Interestingly for most ...
This morning at the New Zealand Backpacking Industry Julian Ledger CEO of YHA New South Wales opened the conference with an overview of the Australian backpacking industry. To me the most interesting stuff was the overview of the success of the industry association....
I have already posted this once - but again the first NZ Backpacking Industry conference is on in Auckland in three weeks and if you are in this sector in NZ (or even Australia) you should be there....
Firstly, to all those that attended the seminar that Eric Billoud and I conducted yesterday thank you very much for your attendance. I hope you go something out of it – I know I certainly enjoyed giving it, even if I did rattle on for too long. I find that once I get going I [...]...
