KDCA AGM 2011

I am very excited by the invitation from the Kenora District Camp Owners Association (KDCA), to make a short presentation on Social Media Marketing for Tourism and Travel, during their spring Annual General Meeting!

KDCA AGM at the Waldhof Hall

With about 70 Camps and Lodge Members, and about 70 Allied Members, the KDCA is a large and influential lobby organization who work closely with Ontario Sunset Country Travel Association and the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) to promote the well being of tourism and travel in Northwestern Ontario.

KDCA AGM, May 6 2011

Tourism Marketing in Northwestern Ontario is dominated by Ontario’s Sunset Country. I just received my Membership Renewal Package, and I open it here on video – with a few brief comments and my review.

If you are a Hunting or Fishing Lodge, a travel destination or even a local retail service that serves tourists in Northwestern Ontario – you should become a member of Ontario’s Sunset Country.

Review of Ed Dale’s Challenge 2010, and why I think this free course is ideal for tourism marketing.

Challenge 2010 by Ed Dale and his associates have been providing a cracking good course over the past week!

My favorite bit has been Market Samurai, and I think this simple tool would be very helpful for Fishing Lodges in Ontario and Manitoba in Canada, to improve the effectiveness of your present Tourism Marketing.

Get top page search engine rankings with greater ease. First Market Samurai helps you find exactly the keywords your customers are using to search for your business, and then Market Samurai helps you focus down on the high traffic keywords with low competition from your competitors.

From one business owner to another – I encourage you to take the

http://www.challenge.co

It is FREE. I like their slogan:
There is no charge for awesomeness!

Today is insanely cold.

It’s easy to put together and publish a 90 second video clip. On any subject.

Watch for more Video Posts that show you how to DO Video Posts for your Tourism Business!

See what this video looks like on YouTube, Metacafe, Google, DailyMotion and Blip.tv

The long-awaited WordPress 2.7 has finally passed it’s first two phases of beta testing!

WordPress ‘Coltrane’
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

Built-in Upgrades!

This could be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again! 2.7 now includes the ability to upgrade to future versions by clicking a few links in the admin area.

The Last Upgrade Day

I’ve seen all the hype about 2.7, but resisted becoming one of the 10′s of thousands of developers who tested the beta versions. Now that the first stable version is released – almost a month overdue, so they could incorporate all the changes and tweaks suggested by the beta testers – I’m excited like a kid at Christmas! I can’t wait to unwrap and test it!

First Deployments of WordPress 2.7

The first projects to benefit from 2.7 are new upgrades to four new tourism business website upgrade projects.

• Whitefish Bay Camp, Lake of the Woods;
• Ogoki Frontier, Armstrong;
• Sleepy Dog Cabins, Perrault Falls;

ok… enough talking! Work to do!!