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So you’ve made it to a point where you’re happy with video editing and want the world to be aware of how cool your place is, how awesome your last travel was, or how warm was the atmosphere during your last dinner, or just want to drop a video on the net about how crazy [...]

 
While saveoursmile.wordpress.com spent almost a year trying to help Madagascar-based tourism operators to get the most of internet, and specifically Web 2.0 and derivatives, apart from some friendly followers (thanks guys, it’s not over yet …) what I advocated for hasn’t been applied …  I can understand it, but this experience also helped me share [...]

In a previous post [fr], I advised to put in a terms of reference for designing a website the following criteria: setup a mobile version of the website. Another post also tried to digg further into mobile marketing. With all those mobile devices (iPhone, nokia, blackberry and other Java or windows-mobile enabled devices), travellers are [...]

So far, the most popular post on this blog is the one about finding photos about Madagascar[fr]. In another project, I’ve searched for  ways to tap into those incredible photos already published on the internet and that can be re-used without infringing any licensing terms- and, yes, solutions exists.
In case you are not yet familiar [...]

Those last months, madagascar  has seen an increased interest through the results of internet search engines if we consider the following result from Google trend on the keyword “madagascar”
We can note a huge rise of the  interest beginning november 2008, mainly because of the cartoon “Madagascar 2 -escape to africa“. However, we can see from [...]

ITB Berlin- March 2009(one of the world’s leading travel trade show):  some lucky bloggers will have a press pass in order to cover the event provided they leverage the major Web 2.0 tools during the event- those tools are mainly:
- blogging often DURING the event – giving their readers insights to this worldwide recognized event [...]

On one hand, ipod, blackberry, and other smartphones …they all come with plenty of  features and most of your clients use them on a daily basis (isn’t it convenient to have all your communication tools in one device: phone, SMS, camera, organizer, USB disk, multimedia player, …moreover all your contacts are within reach through chat, [...]

e interesting tips

Britain Going Blog Crazy – Metro Article,
originally uploaded by Annie Mole.

Find below some reasons that may make you think again and a way to easily setup an effective online presence without spending money … (ok, that one is not necessary true as you will have to pay for the time you spend on [...]

This article will show you a way to cheaply distribute online your brochure. In fact, it will only cost you the time you spent uploading the brochure on scribd.com
You’ve designed and printed a brochure for your tourism-activity and you are trying to do your best to distribute it. You can distribute it during face-to-face meetings [...]

Yet another advocacy for engaging your tourism business into Web 2 (and social networks particularly for this post). Here are (yet another) interesting facts from the New Media Review published by the European Travel Commission.
“Worldwide growth among selected social networking sites, June 2008 (total worldwide audience, age 15+ – home and work locations:

TOTAL INTERNET/TOTAL AUDIENCE: [...]