My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-12-07

Summary of RobertKCole’s Twitter postings for the period ending midday November 30. Highlights include: Philip Wolf recapping his thoughts on the PhoCusWright conference; ReadWriteWeb Produces several Top 10 Lists; US Government gets High Speed Rail rolling and leverages social media; The US hotel industry has a very bad performance week in Occupancy, ADR & RevPAR; DARPA celebrates the anniversary of the Internet and studies the crowdsourcing for finding 10 red weather balloons; Las Vegas City Center developemnt opens as Dubai development stalls.

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-11-30

Summary of RobertKCole’s Twitter postings for the period ending midday November 30. Highlights include: A storied week for women on the web – A vindictive individual decides to trash Stacy Small (aka @EliteTravelGal on Twitter) by adding seven bogus comments under three different fictional names to my blog post on the Future of Travel Agents; Women travel bloggers announce annual Passports with Purpose goal is to build a school in Cambodia; And PinkFriday.org raises lots of money selling donated goods with 100% of proceeds going to Susan G. Komen breast cancer research; Plus, Four Seasons proves it clearlyunderstands how social media can improve a destination experience.

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-11-23

Summary of RobertKCole’s Twitter postings for the period ending midday November 23. Highlights include: The PhoCusWright conference and Travel Innovation Summit – Live tweeting from the Blogger town hall and Lodging recovery workshops; Facebook on its way to 1 billion users; indications the recession may have a lasting impression on consumers and travel.

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-11-16

Summary of RobertKCole’s Twitter postings for the period ending midday November 16. Highlights include: Retweets from a good hotel panel at the Pubcon Search Marketing Conference and Travel Blog Camp at World Travel Market; some angel investor insights; InterContinental and Design Hotels websites that provide some great examples of hotels inspiring travel using video; , and some Twitter Lists, Twubs and other techniques to follow the PhoCusWright conference.

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-11-09

Summary of RobertKCole’s Twitter postings for the period ending midday November 9. Highlights include: good news from the USTA that the travel industry will add 90,000 jobs in 2010; hotels & hotel groups doing a good job on twitter; the Oasis of the Seas uses social media in creative relevant ways; Some live tweeting from David Atkins HSMAI webinar on social media, and a tweet burst for Stephen Joyce on the mess that surrounds hotel room tax.

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-11-02

Summary of RobertKCole’s Tweets for the period ending midday November 2. Highlights include: further insights into the Expedia / Choice Hotels contract negotiation breakdown; a new location-location-location for the travel industry; the parallel CASMA, Forrester and US Travel Association conferences: CASMA & USTA showing the hype ridden & statistically challenged Social Media Revolution video – an example of social media at its worst; and Joe Buehler calling the current state of online travel planning a “click-o-rama.”

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2009-10-26

Summary of RobertKCole’s Tweets for the period ending midday October 26. Highlights include live tweeting from the Travel Weekly Virtual Leisure Summit, a little bit of good news for US Hotel performance, but bad news on oil prices, Augie Ray succeeding Jeremiah Owyang at Forrester Research, Twitter Lists launch, and some great suggestions for travel brands interested in social media from the Web in Travel conference.

Weekly Twitter Digest for 2009-10-12

Summary of RobertKCole’s Tweets for the period ending midday October 12. Highlights include Advertising Age and Forrester hinting that big changes are required for marketing, YouTube’s Content ID confirms authenticity & monetizes media distribution, US Hotel performance & Sabre stats don’t look too good, and RobertKCole makes the list of Travel Twitterers to follow.

HITEC Presentation – Web 2.0 & 3.0 Impact on Hospitality Technology

The hospitality industry has been relatively slow to adopt Web 2.0 technology, so when asked to speak at the annual HFTP HITEC conference, RockCheetah’s Robert Cole and InterContinental’s MiCharl Robinson decided to look forward to Web 3.0 technologies as well. Breaking the presentation into two sections, the first have reviewed the progression from Web 1.0 through Web 2.0 and onto Web 3.0 including the key technologies and key success factors. The second portion highlighted best practices by firms like Morgans Hotel Group, Joie de Vivre and Imagini Youniverse that serve as leading examples of Web 2.0 supporting hotel customer engagement.

Web 2.0 & 3.0 Impact on Hospitality Technology | HFTP HITEC

The hospitality industry has been relatively slow to adopt Web 2.0 technology, so when asked to speak at the annual HFTP HITEC conference, RockCheetah’s Robert Cole and InterContinental’s MiCharl Robinson decided to look forward to Web 3.0 technologies as well. Breaking the presentation into two sections, the first have reviewed the progression from Web 1.0 through Web 2.0 and onto Web 3.0 including the key technologies and key success factors. The second portion highlighted best practices by firms like Morgans Hotel Group, Joie de Vivre and Imagini Youniverse that serve as leading examples of Web 2.0 supporting hotel customer engagement.