by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 4, 2013 | Blogs, Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
My relationship with the TBEX travel blogging conference dates from the second one in New York (kind of a pickup ball game with a little over 100 people in an NYU theater in Greenwich Village, where I spoke on a panel about SEO) to this year’s 1300+ attendee... by Sheila Scarborough | Apr 11, 2013 | Blogs, Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Tourism Currents, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media
To find travel bloggers (or any niche group) you need to go where they are, both on- and offline hangout spots. Of course, don’t be that annoying, sales-y, pushy person once you get there, but I digress…. Since I started travel blogging in February 2006... by Sheila Scarborough | Jul 3, 2012 | Blogs, Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Tourism Currents, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media
Building our Tourism Currents social media training business has NOT been easy. To launch in 2009 in the teeth of a recession was, ah, character-building, but seeing our logo up there as an official sponsor of the TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange) travel blogging conference... by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 29, 2012 | Hospitality and Hotels, Meetings and Conferences, Photos and Images, Travel and Travel Media, Travel Post Friday
Who stayed in Denver’s elegant Brown Palace Hotel on Monday, March 9, 1896? Musician John Philip Sousa, the man who composed The Stars and Stripes Forever among many other marches and famous songs. One of the hotel historians brought the original guest register... by Sheila Scarborough | Jun 26, 2012 | Meetings and Conferences, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media
In one of those great moments when an online acquaintance suddenly appears in front of you offline, I was thrilled last week to meet the person who sent me this bit of the Berlin Wall. It was part of a promotion for Visit Berlin a few years ago; if you sent a Twitter...