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Thanks to everybody who has already sent their contribution for the Web Open in Berlin. I am still collecting them and have yet to look at them. Sorry, but clients have kept me busy. Went to South Tyrol of behalf of Südtirol Marketing (DMO) this week to hold a speech about Travel 2.0. It was [...]

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Thanks to everybody who wants to contribute to the Travel 2.0 presentation at the Web2Open during O’Reilly’s Web 2 Expo in Berlin (more information see this post). Date of the presentation is Tuesday, November 6. Please make sure to mail me your input by Wednesday, Ocotber 31. What I am looking for: Your angle on [...]

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Never have I enjoyed a job as much as teaching "Web publishing" at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. The more I teach how to write for the (tourism) Web, the more I realize that most tourism websites are really bad. Yes, I confess, this has been more of a surprise that I had expected. [...]

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"Wir beißen nicht!" Schreibt Manuela Nigischer vom Hotel zur Hammerschmiede im Waldviertler Drosendorf in ihrem Hotel-Blog. Was war geschehen? Gäste hatten sich nach ihrem Aufenthalt online beschwert. Diese Bewertung wurde bei Tiscover abgegeben, wo die Gäste gebucht hatten. There was plenty of room for us in our double room. Unfortunately the TV did not work [...]

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Today is Blog Action Day. Bloggers are encouraged to write about the environment. Well, that is a tough one. Let’s face it, tourism is often guilty of destroying the environment. But, there are positive examples. I will feature three. Black Sheep Inn in the Ecuadorian Highlands:Two Amercian idealists have put a small Andean village on [...]

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Please check out these wonderful posts by Vicky Brock from Highland Business Research. Vicky on social platforms & tourism Vicky on social media & tourism Find all my English posts about the Social Web and its implications on the tourism industry here.

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Thanks so much to everybody who has contacted me or commented about my call to come to the Web2Open/ Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. No one seems to be able to make it. But, let’s copy the model of E-Canada instead.

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Dear English-language readers of FastenYourSeatbelts, as some of you might know, Web 2.0 Pope Tim O’Reilly himself is hosting the first Web 2.0 Expo in Europe this November, 5-8 in Berlin. Hopefully, all of Europe’s (aspiring) web elite will reunite in Berlin. Especially since Barcamp & Podcamp Berlin are going to take place the weekend [...]

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Para mis colegas espanoles como Albert, Juan, MeGustaelTurismo, EduWilliam, Alberto Gonzalez y Rumorismo (que tuvo la gentilez de traducir mis 7 teses sobre travel 2.0): Como tal vez saben (soy chilena, asi que utilizare esta forma toda la elite web 2.0 se reunira en la Web 2.0 Expo Berlin de Tim O’Reilly del 5-8 de [...]

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Morgen startet Digitalks im Wiener MuseumsQuartier. Diese Initiative wurde von der ehemaligen SAP-Beraterin Meral Akin-Hecke mit dem Ziel gegründet, Web 2.0 für mehr Menschen verständlich zu machen. Der erste Abend befasst sich mit dem Thema Blogs. Die Vortragenden sind Michael Schuster und ich. Anmelden kann man sich hier, allerdings wurde die Warteliste bereits eröffnet. Kleiner [...]

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