I have just completed judging the website category for the NZ Community Newspapers Association Annual Awards. It was an interesting exercise and one that made me think about what is a good newspaper website - particularly one that appeals to a specific community audience. Here are the criteria I b...
Happy New Year to you all. Back from holiday and straight back into it. I hope this first half of the year gives me more time to post more regularly than the last half of last year did.
To start the year off I found this great list of articles on the forcasted trends in tourism [...]...
When Google and Bing announced that Tweets may appear in their search results my first reaction was - this opens a whole new field for experts to sell services on how to optimise your site for Twitter or more relevantly your Twitter account for search engines. I wondered what people would say if th...
The recent launch of Google Sidewiki is destined to be one of the most controversial products ever to be seen on the Internet. The blogosphere and Twitter stream is simply alive with complaints about the implications of the Sidewiki....
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 ...
