by Sheila Scarborough | Mar 20, 2012 | Hospitality and Hotels, Meetings and Conferences, Tourism Currents, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Video, Web Communications, What This Blog's All About
After a thoroughly enjoyable day speaking and participating in Dell’s pre-SXSW Unconference for Small Business, I was asked at the after party why we at Tourism Currents feel so strongly that technology and social media can be helpful for tourism and... by Sheila Scarborough | Mar 6, 2012 | Blogs, Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Travel and Travel Media
The topics are all over the map at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin every year, but even in the 20,000 person geek madness, it’s still possible to find one’s “tribe.” If you are a travel blogger, travel writer, travel or tourism... by Sheila Scarborough | Aug 16, 2011 | Life-hacking and Tips for Better Living, Meetings and Conferences, Tourism Currents, Web Communications
I’m working on a book, and it’s NOT about travel or social media! Seems as though every time I turn around these days, someone I know is cranking out a book. For speakers like me, it’s almost a rite of passage. I spent a lot of time wrestling with... by Sheila Scarborough | Mar 2, 2011 | Life-hacking and Tips for Better Living, Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
We tell tourism clients all the time that they need to occasionally go where the geeks are to really stay up to speed on social media tools and culture. One of the conferences that we recommend attending at least once is the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech... by Sheila Scarborough | Aug 16, 2010 | Tourism Currents, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
Most of you know that I’m really big on getting “the ungeeked” to go to one or two tech-related conferences or events per year. There is no more effective way to figure out how people are using technology and mobile devices right now to communicate;...