travel2zero

Your objective today is to create together with me a presentation for the next class for ALL. You and your group just cover ONE topic and suggest me links, outline, wording, samples and added value

Check on finding the history of those technologies, how all started, who are the main names behind, find some visuals Check about how it has impacted doing business and even more so how it changed travel an tourism industry Look this time less on the marketing but more of the actual business side

1 Blogsphere, Weblog, history, Identity blogs (diaries), destination blogs, travel news and opinions, danger of Splogs Blogmarketing is information focused > customer blog, emplyoee blog (user specialist & maker specialist), difficult to monetize

2 Podcast, history of internet radio to podcast, tavel podcast type (industry news and reviews, destination, attractions, personal travel experience, soundscapes, soundseeing tour, repurposed radio programs Come to me Web, push technologies like RSS Vlog for broadband Pushes MP3 players, link to sw like itunes niche marketing (narrow and devoted ) > long tail Who (home, travelcast, audiotours)

3 Wiki travel sites, collaborative user generated guide, multimedia (video, text, review, pictures, maps, tips, podcast) Social network travel sites

4 Travel mapping, basic mapping tools, user generated maps, map mashups (what is a mashup)

5 Virtual sites, governmental portals, tourist portals

Delivery: email with links and explanations, summary, suggest images to be used (attached or weblink), give me the text for ON the slides as well as for the notepages. At the end it should be easy for me to use your text and suggestions to create some 4-5 slides which I then will use and prepare for the next class.