Highlights include a packed week of travel and digital media conferences. Search Engine Strategies Chicago leaves no topic uncovered – ranging from the future of search to the impact of mobile, personalization and social media and how pay per click and organic search will be changed forever – Wish I could have attended all the concurrent sessions; HEDNA meets in Las Vegas and thankfully Henry Hartesveldt provides some Twitter updates; USTOA meets in Banff and talks about crowdsourcing crisis management best practices; LeWeb talks everything digital in Europe – and generously posts videos. Finally Jeremiah Owyang concludes that real time is not fast enough and apps are now becoming future oriented, plus Farelogix launches its SPRK booking platform.

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.

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.

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.

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.