by Sheila Scarborough | Nov 23, 2010 | Life-hacking and Tips for Better Living, Twitter, Web Communications
As both a speaker and enthusiastic attendee at lots of conferences, I’m getting tired of the squawking I sometimes hear about people “not paying attention because they’re tweeting.” Speaker Tom Martin has some good thoughts about it in his...
by Sheila Scarborough | Oct 21, 2010 | Blogs, Life-hacking and Tips for Better Living, LinkedIn, Meetings and Conferences, Photos and Images, Tourism Currents, Travel and Travel Media, Twitter, Video, Web Communications
Although our Tourism Currents online learning community is a pretty new startup, we decided this month to sponsor an event for the first time. Now we’re in the “big leagues,” right? 🙂 It’s the Get Smart professional development conference run...
by Sheila Scarborough | Sep 19, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Development, Facebook, LinkedIn, Meetings and Conferences, Photos and Images, Twitter, Video, Web Communications
It’s easy to see how social media and mobile devices have changed how meetings and conferences themselves are conducted (for more on that see Jeff Hurt’s Seven Tips to Make Your Conference Millennial-Friendly) but how about the idea of using social media...
by Sheila Scarborough | May 9, 2010 | Tourism Currents, Travel and Travel Media
My Tourism Currents co-founder Becky McCray and I decided last month to make our monthly newsletter fully available for anyone to view on our website, without a login (although we still take signups for you to get it first, via email.) We’re pretty proud of our...
by Sheila Scarborough | Oct 19, 2009 | Meetings and Conferences, Twitter, Web Communications
For the past few weeks, I’ve been globe-trotting….well, more accurately, Continental-U.S.-hopping. I’ve been keeping an eye on the action at state tourism conferences for Virginia, Ohio, Missouri and Texas, ESTO (Educational Seminar for Tourism) in...
