One of the best things about interacting with other bloggers on Twitter is that people are always coming up with new ideas. Craig Zabransky, who blogs as Stay Adventurous, started Sunset Sunday on Twitter as a way to show off his fabulous sunset photos from around the world. Check them out here.On...

Attention travel bloggers: Looking to inject a little activism into your routine? Then Passports With Purpose, an annual fundraiser organized and promoted by a diverse group of travel bloggers, is looking for you! Last year, the group – led by Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby, Beth Whitman of Wanderlust...

On the long plane ride from Seattle into New York for TBEX, I grabbed a book that I had been meaning to read for years: Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. Turns out I couldn’t have made a better choice. The Travel Blog Exchange conference, now in its second year, personifies Shirky’s theory...

Tomorrow night I head out on a red-eye flight to attend the second TBEX conference in New York City. TBEX is short for the Travel Blog Exchange, an online gathering of travel bloggers big and small. I’m excited to attend, even though I’ll miss out on the Friday night socializing. I remember...

I spoke at PRSA Travel & Tourism conference in Aspen last week, as part of a panel entitled “Reaching Key Influencers Where They Live (Online).” I felt lucky to be included in that definition. Of those of us on the panel, which included Kara S. Williams of The Vacation Gals, Johnny Jet...

It’s Foursquare Day and users of the location-based game are gathering in various cities, enjoying discounts and freebies from participating vendors. (On Twitter, the hashtag is #4sqDay). I’ve been playing around with Foursquare over the past few weeks, just to see what the fuss is about....

It’s Travel Tuesday on Twitter – which means it’s time for my latest periodic feature. Using the new Fotobabble service (available FREE on the web or as a phone app), I’m going to tell a story about one of the photos from a trip.

Getting customers to do your marketing for you is the mantra behind corporate social media these days. And among the travel industry, it seems, no PR offering  is more effective than a Twitter-based trip giveaway.

Last week, I asked people to list the places that they would visit again and again. Paris was a popular answer, as was Vermont (read more answers from the Twitterverse here). And one of my Twitter buddies, @thenotoriousmeg (I love her name, it sounds so gangster), had an even better question: Where...

My “where you would return?” post yesterday sparked some good answers, not only here, but on Twitter. Paris scored big among the responses – everyone, it seems, wants to lose themselves in the City of Lights. (And I do too….Paris would have definitely made a Top 10). Back here...