This little Jogger* went to Canada’s GoMedia Marketplace

by Jools Stone RSS 11 Comments
GoMedia 2011, Edmonton

Every year Canada throws open its maple scented doors to the world’s media for a 3 day event which sticks its tourism ambassadors in front of inky-fingered travel writers from across the globe. GoMedia Marketplace, this year hosted by Edmonton, Alberta, has to be one of the most useful events for networking and story gathering I’ve ever attended, not to mention fun.

It takes in city tours, launch parties, workshops, networking dinners, an award lunch (including a Continue Reading

Flipping Amazing: HTML Pages To Get Page Flip Reading Tools, As Standard

by Mike Sowden RSS 0 Comments
Red hardcover book with flipping pages

As proven by the iPhone, iPad and Kindle, we love technology that gives the illusion of reading a book. But what if all HTML web pages had page flipping built into them?

Trust Apple. Until they wowed us with their fancy page-flipping, side-swiping touch technology, we seemed quite happy bumbling along with the downwards-scrolling model of page display. We weren’t, of course – hundreds of years of using books instead of scrolls have culturally programmed us to want to turn Continue Reading

Destination-Specific Blogging Has Many Advantages

by Mariellen Ward RSS 21 Comments
Taj Mahal

I blog about India. I have been traveling regularly in India for about six years, and have racked up about 14 months altogether in country. I started blogging from the beginning of my first trip back in 2005, but didn’t launch my “professional” blog, Breathedreamgo.com, until August 2009. Since then, I’ve been building my traffic, content, following and relationships.

At social events and online people often ask me, why India? And they mean, What is it about India that keeps Continue Reading