Facebook has announced that it plans to roll-out location features to it’s service next month. This is no big surprise considering Facebook’s “anything you can do” philosophy. Twitter started to activate their location based features only a matter of days ago.
This news confirms many people’s suspicions of a huge ‘location based’ trend in 2010.

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The social media stage seems huge to many of us out there. It’s no surprise that an often adopted approach to tackling it is to angrily hit the keyboard with a large stick (that’ll learn it!).
It needn’t be this way people! The social media can be an invaluable tool for your hotel.

Daniel Craig has written an interesting article about how to turn the ’social media beast’ and make it work in your hotel’s favour.

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The popular social media management tool Hootsuite has announced that it is making steps towards adding MySpace and Foursquare integration to it’s service.

While the MySpace integration was kind of inevitable, the Foursquare addition is a welcomed surprise.

Mashable investigates…

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Twitter is turning into the ‘must have’ tool for social networking your business. However, it’s difficult to gauge just how much influence twitter is having on your business. Every half business savvy employee or owner will be consistently asking one question…what’s the ROI?!
If you know what to use and how to use it, you can actually get a very good idea of how your twitter account is performing for your hotel.

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Here’s something to put a smile on your face, especially if you’re an Irish hotel…

Travel publisher Lonely Planet have named 10 of the world’s friendliest countries. Ireland appeared in the list along side countries such as Fiji and Malawi which are famed for their friendly inhabitants. The list was derived from Lonely Planets 1000 Ultimate Experiences…

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