Everyone loves the feel-good stories about the big boys helping out the small fries, so here’s another one. Yesterday Jetstar brought out 40% off sale on a range of fares including Queenstown to Melbourne where we’re overdue a visit to. $129 + taxes – that’s not bad! Now I’...
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...
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 ...
From a few tweets last night about "the big earthquake" - I was suddenly transposed to being a citizen journalist, reporting over Skype live on Breakfast Televison in Toronto, Canada. This is a good story....
I was in The Gold Coast last night at Backpacking Queensland open meeting and I got asked continually the same questions - "What is Twitter?" being the main one. Everybody had looked at Twitter and in most cases run scared at the strange looking global stream on the home page. By the end of the ni...
I have been at the Mumbrealla Social Media Masterclass today and listened to a fantastic case study from Mike Hickinbotham from Telstra Australia, of all companies, on how Telstra and in particular Big Pond have used Twitter and their success. It is bloody ironic because those of you who follow thi...
This is an extremely random post on a number of thoughts - kind on a long Twitter ramble if Twitter only accepted 800 words!...
