by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 27, 2011 | Mobile, Web Communications
Does your boss have a smartphone but isn’t really too sure what to do with it, or does he or she not have a smartphone at all? Time for a teaching intervention, or you’ll never convince him/her about why mobile is so doggoned important to your future. Some... by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 17, 2011 | Facebook, Mobile, Photos and Images, Travel and Travel Media, Travel Post Friday, Twitter, Web Communications
This is Woodrow Wilson’s restored Pierce-Arrow limousine, at his Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia. Nice museum, with a small new World War I exhibit, and Staunton is a charming town in the Shenandoah Valley. (The cat’s pajamas is 1920’s... by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 1, 2011 | Mobile, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
One of the presentations at SoMeT 2010 (Social Media Tourism Symposium) was from MMG Worldwide and covered a variety of ways that tourism organizations can engage visitors through their mobile devices. As a travel enthusiast who is beginning to really rely on her own... by Sheila Scarborough | May 24, 2011 | Blogs, Facebook, Life-hacking and Tips for Better Living, Meetings and Conferences, Mobile, Twitter, Web Communications
This is a photo of my lap during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Global Tech Summit. Quick photos and some tweets went up on my Android smartphone, plus special check-ins to each session on Gowalla. (Update: Gowalla was bought by Facebook and shut down.) Other tweets... by Sheila Scarborough | Apr 20, 2011 | Mobile, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
Pretend you are a visitor to town XYZ. Go stand in some central area – maybe downtown – where your visitors tend to cluster. Pull out your phone, open up the browser, and type “XYZ restaurants” or “XYZ hotels” into the magic Google... by Sheila Scarborough | Mar 17, 2011 | Mobile, Web Communications
Mobile devices aren’t new. I played music on a Sony Walkman decades ago. What made it different from a boom box was that it created my own little sonic world – I chose what I heard and only I could hear it. Mobile devices aren’t new, but what you can...