A writer in the Guardian’s Work section is trying to monetise her blog with the help of a leading viral marketer – and she’s writing a fortnightly column about it for the next 6 months.
Andrea Wren is a freelance journalist, copywriter and blogger. It’s the latter she’s most keen to build upon, and the Guardian is lending a helping hand. Wren’s two websites Travelling Wren (on travel) and Chocolate Continue Reading
“In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking their travel experiences into the Lonely Planets of the world.”
Thus starts the TechCrunch article on the launch of Triposo‘s new travel planning service for Android, iPhone and iPad. It’s centred around an app that aims to revolutionise travel-related content by aggregating existing travel data from sources like Wikipedia, Continue Reading
The second Travel Bloggers Unite (TBU) Conference has been and gone, running over 5 jam-packed days (24th-28th August) in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck. Delegates from all corners of Europe and further afield enjoyed city-wide photographic tours, presentations from the experts and lively discussion, and somehow still managed to find the time to party their socks off.
So what did they get from the experience?
Isabelle Kenis summarises key presentations, including links to Continue Reading