http://www.goseetell.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:22:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This month's ranking of US and Canadian destinations on Twitter brings a major improvement - the list is now embedded as a Google doc, making a lot nicer to look at (you just have to scroll now to see all destination on the list). We found over 100 new destinations on ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/05/destinations-on-twitter-ranking-for-april-09/ table { border: 1px solid #BFBFBF; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 10px; } .style0 {text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; white-space:nowrap; color: black; font-size:10px; ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/04/destinations-on-twitter-mar-09-ranking/ As we do every month we list all destinations that are using Twitter and rank them using Twitter Grader. February brought many changes to our ranking including a new Nr. 1: @BaltimoreMD put - literally - a lot of skin in the game, became the first destination with more than ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/03/destinations-on-twitter-feb-09-ranking/ More tourism organizations found their way to Twitter in the first month of 2009. We now track over 160 in the US and Canada. (If we are missing some, please let us now - add as a comment or D @coldinpdx on Twitter). Highlights: We found 164 official Twitter accounts for destinations ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/02/twitter-dmo-cvb-ranking-jan-09/ Apparently, “that which does not kill us only makes us stronger”, so in a time when budgets are tightening and consumer confidence is declining an unprecedented emphasis is placed on creativity and differentiation. And a few brands are raising to the occasion and using their, shall we say assets, to gain ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/if-youve-got-it-flaunt-it/ Tourism Queensland yesterday launched a big user-generated-content campaign: the Australian version of "Island Idol". Visitors are invited to submit a casting video on www.islandreefjob.com and apply for the job of Island Caretaker in the Great Barrier Reef: The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef is a newly created ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/are-you-ready-for-island-idol/ Using our monthly statistic about destinations on Twitter we thought it would be interesting to analyze the number of followers and number of posts in more detail. One school of thought on Twitter is that if you write tweets are people find interesting and helpful, your number of followers will grow. ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/followers-or-posts-what-is-more-time-consuming/ When we were doing a social media workshop for Convention & Visitor bureaus in Michigan last year we had one participant who was very doubtful that Twitter would be useful for him. We discussed the various ways Twitter can be a useful tool. Besides using it to listening to customers ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/facing-budget-cuts-talk-to-your-politicians-on-twitter/ If you have any interest how other destinations are having success with Twitter make sure to read a very insightful comment from @paadventure on yesterday's blog post. Thanks for sharing! Based on your feedback we have added more destinations to our growing list of tourism organizations on Twitter.  @travelynnmo pointed out a ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/which-state-gets-the-most-out-of-twitter/ Yesterday we published our monthly ranking of US tourism organizations on Twitter. Over the next days we will analyze the data some more and see if Twitter is really having an impact on tourism or if it just a fad.  In this post we rank the 50 destinations that picked up ... http://www.goseetell.com/blog/2009/01/fastest-growing-destinations-on-twitter/