Stephen Joyce: Once Upon a Blog - Marketing Travel Through Storytelling

ONCE UPON A BLOG Marketing travel by telling stories Stephen Joyce CEO Sentias Software Corp. Publisher of Tips from the T-List

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paper Jorn Barger American Blogger Coined the Word “weblog” In the Beginning there was and then Jorn said, let there be WEBLOGS

WHAT IS A BLOG? “ A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know.” Dave Winer High Profile Programmer & Blog Service Promoter

WHAT IS A BLOG? “ Weblogs often are highly focused around a singular subject, an underlying theme or unifying concept.” Cameron Barrett Technology Consultant

WHAT IS A BLOG? “ the 'pirate radio stations' of the Web, are a new, personal, and determinedly non-hostile evolution of the electric community ” Jon Katz Journalist

WHAT IS A BLOG? Paper is a monologue directed at the reader, blogs are a continuous dialogue in which the reader is an active participant.

WHY BLOG ?

BLOGS

GIVE and ye shall RECEIVE

BUT HOW ?

You go to a really cool conference and you write a post about what you thought.

Your blog software sends an alert NEW POST !

The search engines send spiders to crawl your blog * Image source: existonline.com

The content of your post is indexed so it can be searched. * Image source: existonline.com <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="robots" content="follow, all" /> <meta name="language" content="en, sv" />

At the same time, other bloggers, rss readers, and automatic tools are reading your post and linking to it. * Image source: existonline.com

currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Technorati is ...

THE NUMBER of new blogs that are ABANDONED within a month 80 %

MOST BLOGS Have the lifespan of a FRUIT FLY!

“ Real discoveries come from chaos. ” Chuck Palahniuk (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)‏

Building the travel blogging community

... a list of travel related sites. the T-List is

... a community. the T-List is

... order from the chaos. the T-List is

... recognized as the definitive guide to travel industry blogs. the T-List is

... used as the basis for a book where contributing bloggers have their work published. the T-List is

... featured at the World's most important travel conferences. the T-List is

... one year old. the T-List is

NOW WHAT ?

THE DOOR IS OPEN

SHARE YOUR STORIES

By sharing your story, you... establish your expertise

By sharing your story, you... build credibility

By sharing your story, you... demonstrate generosity

By sharing your story, you... engage in conversation

By sharing your story, you... feed Google

WHAT TO DO ?

DISCOVER blogs that you like

READ blogs regularly

COMMENT on interesting posts

CONNECT with bloggers

CONTRIBUTE to existing blogs

BUILD your own blog

INVITE your connections

INVITE feedback

RESPOND to feedback ... always

and always

ALWAYS !

P L A Y N I C E

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Stephen Joyce: Once Upon a Blog - Marketing Travel Through Storytelling

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