Recently, I saw a hospitality marketer post something that I found completely objectionable. It stood for just about everything wrong with the current state of marketing within our travel world. In deference
Let’s revisit the first few years of our connective technology boom.
[This is republished from my personal blog, here] Let’s ask some questions. We are guinea pigs, at the first 1% of these powerful new technologies that have rapidly, exponentially, grabbed hold
A coffee laden ramble about… hotel coffee. What does your coffee program, or lack of it, say about your hotel brand?
The Story of Hotel Coffee. This is something I have done in the past – talking about the history of hotel systems and amenities, and where we are today. It’s likely horribly self indulgent, as well
The Evolving Check-In
Where people are isn’t as important as why they are there. The next stage is communing around the places, and understanding that the individual person is simply a node in a much vaster network.
Filter Ethics, Hidden Streams, & the eroding open internet
Filter ethics. This is the most important thing regarding Facebook & other online communities that very few people are talking about. Â I note here (June 2010) that hidden streams destroy any legitimacy