Friday Finds
Posted by D'Arcy McKittrick on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 @ 01:38 PM
Hardly an original idea. Every Friday (did I say “every” — that will be tough to live up to) we will share some “finds” with you. Most often these are likely to be websites or blogs that we have found in our web wandering.
So kicking off our first (modest) edition of Friday Finds is The “Good Tourism” Wiki, a wiki website that bills itself as “...a knowledge bank of updated theory, agreements & declarations, reports & guides, best practices, useful links and multimedia resources related to sustainable tourism and responsible travel (aka “good tourism”), contributed by travel and tourism stakeholders, (i.e. you!).“ We haven’t spent a lot time on the site yet, but our first impression is that if you want a forum to follow and participate, underscore participate (after all, it is a wiki) in some thoughtful discussion of sustainable tourism and related issues, this might be a good place to hang out from time to time. At the very least, it is worth a look.
Next up, a website called business helping business. A really simple and smart idea, with applications beyond tourism businesses. Essentially, if you are a businesses that needs something (other than customers, I presume) you post that need on the website and businesses who might be able to respond to that need will contact you. Or if you have something that you think other businesses might need, post that for businesses in need to find. As the headline on the site proclaims: “Businesses helping one another to survive and succeed by making needs known and favors available.” Check it out and let us know on Twitter (@DArcyMcK) what you think.
And finally, if you are scratching your head trying to figure out how to use all of the available web tools (ie. websites, blogs, e-newsletter, social networking, flickr, Youtube, etc.) to market your tourism business, give Steve Kayser’s “The End of Marketing and PR” a read. Don’t let the title scare you. It is a clear and concise explanation of what tools are available and how you might use them, complete with links to the tools.
Parting words of wisdom: “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.” (Putt’s Law).