If you are interested in training for social media marketing in tourism, look at the courses Sheila Scarborough and I developed at Tourism Currents. Enrollment for the new courses starts today. (yay!) Sheila Scarborough, Liz Strauss, and Becky McCray Sheila and I met on Liz Strauss’s Successful Blog, on her open mic nights a couple […]
Archives for June 2010
How two small business people connected with OpenSky
I first met Ted Rubin at BlogWorld Expo in 2009, where he took time out for a video interview about starting small. He is super sharp, very engaging, and a pleasure to connect with. Now Ted is working with OpenSky, which he describes as “empowering small businesses to grow, thrive and find a new means […]
The resurgence of the American Heartland
A terrific article from New Geography, “The Heartland Will Play a Role in America’s Future.” Take time to read the whole thing. One of the least anticipated developments in the nation’s 21st-century geography will be the resurgence of the American Heartland, often dismissed by coastal dwellers as “flyover country.” Yet in the coming 40 years, […]
Do you endorse everything you retweet
On Twitter, when we see something interesting, we retweet it, or pass it along to others. A quick look at any Twitter page will reveal a whole bunch of items marked RT, or using Twitter’s built in retweet function. Clearly, we like to pass along what we find. A retweet has been described as saying […]