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This is spot on……

JEB @ May 28, 2007 #

Old Advertising versus The New Consumer
on the Travolution blog covers a great ad about what’s happening in today’s market and it looks like a large number of companies in any industry still isn’t getting it.

 
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For all you presenters out there

JEB @ May 21, 2007 #

consider Life After Death by PowerPoint before your next presentation. It’s the anti-thesis to Steve Jobs’ performances.
Thanks to Travolution for helping us all get through our next seminar or workshop!

Technorati Tags: power point

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9 Biggest Workplace Myths

JEB @ May 19, 2007 #

on AlwaysOn is great advice to think about.
It’s got nothing to do with web 2.0 or travel but working life in general. It’s mainly for all of you out there working in an organization, maybe a large and/or bureaucratic one. Take this to heart! I’m living proof of #6. Never got a job in my [...]

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Marketing to the Long Tail

JEB @ May 14, 2007 #

below is what I consider the key sentence in this informative article on ClickZ.com
The way forward is to integrate your message into consumers’ conversations. It’s about integrating your campaign into the social networks your potential customers frequent.

As I’ve stated a number of times, the time of one-way communications is over and organizations need to enter [...]

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TRANSPARENCY TYRANNY

JEB @ May 14, 2007 #

is the theme of the trendwatching.com: May 2007issue. It has a number of references to travel, with TripAdvisor as the poster company. The entire issue is worth examining as it goes to the core of what the web has consumers enabled to become.
In a recent post I’ve covered a study that showed only a minority [...]

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Tilting at a Digital Future

JEB @ May 13, 2007 #

is the title of a great article in The New York Times on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation.
They’ve made headlines recently with his offer to buy Dow Jones, publishers of The Wall Street Journal and of course last year with the purchase of MySpace.
What tells me, that the web has reached the dominant position [...]

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WTTC: Tech could save tourism billions

JEB @ May 11, 2007 #

Internet Travel News reports about a new study conducted by Deloitte and NYU Hospitality about the huge savings that web technology could produce for tourism. This is a welcome project but my first thought upon reading this was, what took the travel establishment so long? The shift of consumer travel buying behavior has been [...]

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Road Trip Planner and Online Travel Guide

JEB @ May 10, 2007 #

Trip Cart

has all the makings of an innovative travel site that integrates vacation research and planning tools with user generated content, social networking and a great mapping mashup. In my brief review I was impressed with the ease of using the site and collecting stuff that normally has to be gathered from different sites. The [...]

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Travelocity Maximizes ROI on MySpace with Fictional Brand Advocate

JEB @ May 9, 2007 #

iMedia Connection reports in this brief case study how Travelocity uses the gnome, successfully in the social networking world. This is a great example of how the issue of participating in the conversation can be addressed in a way that resonates with the audience as the examples show while communicating a results driven marketing [...]

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Travelocity Maximizes ROI on MySpace with Fictional Brand Advocate

JEB @ May 9, 2007 #

iMedia Connection reports in this brief case study how Travelocity uses the gnome, successfully in the social networking world. This is a great example of how the issue of participating in the conversation can be addressed in a way that resonates with the audience as the examples show while communicating a results driven marketing [...]

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