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Posted on Mar 15th 2010 by Pascal Metivier
Mobile solution provider that developed the world's first crypto acoustic solution for check-in/out and room access via any guest's mobile phone announces new services to further enhance operations and guest services....
Posted on Mar 15th 2010 by Juliana Shallcross
Do you Foursquare? No, not the game you used to play on the blacktop at recess. We're talking about Foursquare, the newest darling of the social media realm that allows you to declare your exact locations via your mobile devices. That's what's called a "c...
Posted on Mar 12th 2010 by Bas van den Beld
For online marketers, optimizing for social media has become not just interesting, but a must. All major search engines have embraced social media. And with Google incorporating Facebook content into its real time results the integration of social media a...
Posted on Mar 11th 2010 by NICK BILTON
Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments. Tristan Walker...
Posted on Dec 20th 2009 by Bryan Marsh
A few weeks back I bought myself a new Amazon Kindle. Amazon have only recently opened this to the Australian market - my Kindle congratulated me for being one of the first in Australia to purchase, cool! One of the reasons I got this Kindle was to follow...
Posted on Dec 19th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
I found this short video from Social Media expert Chris Brogan. Chris was giving a keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Expo with using a case study of the Roger Smith Hotel....
Posted on Dec 18th 2009 by Bryan Marsh
Facebook claims to have more than 700,000 local business pages already created (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics). This number is growing significantly each day, however Australian hotels and resorts seem to be slow on the up take....
Posted on Nov 13th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
Most hotels and resorts in Australia have not adopted social media. Social media is not going away, it is not something you can forget about and hope it passes by quietly. Social media is not a fad, its a trend, a game changer that needs to be adopted....
Posted on Nov 12th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
Well, Google has started the season of giving by providing free Wi-Fi on all Virgin America flights until January 15th. Yesterday, Google announced they are extending the gift of free Wi-Fi to 47 airports throughout America. Good work Google, when is it c...
Posted on Nov 10th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
This post will guide you through the steps required to set-up TweetDeck, a great tool for managing one or more Twitter accounts....
Posted on Oct 29th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
This tutorial is to help you get started with Twitter. We will show you how to: Create a twitter account Find friends (twitters) Send Tweets, Replies and Direct Messages (DM's)....
Posted on Oct 28th 2009 by Bryan Marsh @bryanmarsh
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you answer the question, "What are you doing?" by sending short text messages, similar to SMS, 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers."...
Posted on Oct 21st 2009 by Doug Kennedy
If you are embracing consumer generated media, guest reviews, and social networking as marketing and public relation opportunities to get the good news out about your hotel, here are some interesting points of discussion for your next meeting....