[ September 8, 2010 to September 10, 2010. ] This year The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) from September 8-10 in Portland, OR. Allison Park will speak on how sustainable businesses can make the most of their limited budgets through the use of social media. More »
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ECOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM CONFERENCE
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Creating a Flickr Gallery
Even if you don’t have a lot of photos on Flickr, you can easily create a gallery to showcase your area. All you need is a basic Flickr account and little creativity.
Here are the 4 easy steps:
- Search for photos
Be general at first and then narrow your search down to particular seasons or features.
Note: When viewing your search results, click on i to open a “more information” pop-up window. This allows you to view the photo at a larger size without losing your place in the search.
More Info Pop Up Window
Hint: open potential photos for your gallery in new tabs/browser windows to keep track them easily.
- Click on the “Add to Gallery” icon above the photo.Select your gallery or create a new one.
If this is your first photo in a new gallery, create the title and description here. You can edit this information at any time.
- Drag the thumbnails to reorder the photos in your gallery. You can also drag one of the thumbnails to replace your gallery’s thumbnail here (left of the gallery title).
- Write comments to explain why you chose each photo. You can edit your comment by clicking on the text again.
Example Gallery: A Bean for every season.
Additional things to consider:
- Once you add a photo to your gallery, a one-time message (Flickr email) will be sent to the photographer to notify them.
- There is a maximum of 18 photos per gallery.
- Be specific on which photos you choose.
- You cannot choose photos from your own photostream.
- Don’t worry about photo licensing since all the photos are still housed in Flickr.
- You cannot get an RSS feed of your galleries. ie: cannot use on your website or Facebook page.
- Photographers can control who can add their photos to galleries by changing their preferences.
Have you created any Flickr Galleries? What are your successes and insights?
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Friday Work Break: Remi Gaillard
As the week comes to a close, there’s need for a comical break. During a recent trip to Bend, OR, a fellow colleague introduced me to Remi Gaillard and his hilarious pranks. How I could not know about this comical genius before now is beyond me, but for you others left out of the French prankster’s fun: happy Friday! More »
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Registering a Twitter List
Once your twitter list has been created, you can register it on Listorious. Click on Add Your Lists. If this is the first time you’re on Listorious, you will need to allow access to your twitter account.
You can always revoke this access by going to twitter.com: Settings: Connections. More »
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Are Your YouTube Videos Optimized?
Lights. Camera. Action. Boom! Your video is done. You edited it, added a few special effects and rush to upload it to YouTube. But wait you’re not done yet. With hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube every day it’s important to make sure you do your best in optimizing your video for search.
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YouTube has a proprietary algorithm and nobody knows 100% how the ranking of videos is done. Nevertheless, there is some common wisdom out there on the ways to make your video do better in search. Here are some tips to get you started. Please share yours in the comments!
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Enhancing Your Facebook Posts
It takes very little effort to create quality Facebook posts. In my opinion, you should not link your Facebook updates to your Twitter account nor should you use HootSuite or TweetDeck to update your Facebook page. It’s well worth the extra minute to create an engaging post of a link with a thumbnail and quality copy.
Personalize your post by editing the title and description of the link:
