Social media whilst on holiday, what do you use? Interesting survey results.

Following my#idiotathome exploits during my buss-man’s holiday at Milkwood House in Swansea recently (where I seemed to be tweeting, blogging and flicking every hour under the sun!), it was interesting to come across this survey earlier this week. A recent Trip Advisor survey which questioned 1000 people who use social media, about their social media [...]

Read Full Post »

Where have I been?

……..neglecting my social media channels that’s where.  Been concentrating on Linked-In, twitter still dominates my life, foursquare annoys me and facebook is starting to fade nicely into the background. I am still using facebook for a number of tourism campaigns though, and for event marketing but to save time, we’ve  just appointed an agency in [...]

Read Full Post »

Linking WordPress to Facebook

There are may ways to do this and here’s just one and it’s quite straight forward. It uses the ‘notes’ tab on your facebook fan page to display your blog posts from WordPress, and these also appear on your wall too.  See below as an example…. The top entry on the wall (Day 22 of [...]

Read Full Post »

Displaying Twitter Updates on a Facebook Business Page

One of the best ways to achieve this is to use a great Facebook application known as ‘selective tweets’.  This allows you to select any tweets in twitter that you want to appear on your facebook business page by simply adding the hashtag “#fb”.  Here’s how to go about it: 1. Sign in to Facebook, [...]

Read Full Post »

The best tourism Facebook pages?

Trying to create a list of some great Facebook pages used in the tourism industry as a training resource for small buisnesses in Welsh tourism.  If anyone knows of any examples that might help, inspire, demonstrate, that would be great.  Thanks again – Andrew

Read Full Post »

Has the digital tourist arrived yet?

Have they arrived in Wales yet?  They maybe here but I don’t think they’ve been targeted that well that’s for sure.  I’m currently delivering a number of courses throughout the country and its great to see a massive interest in digital marketing and social media, but it’s quite alarming to note the level of participation [...]

Read Full Post »