It’s certainly been a busy couple of weeks for the online travel community, with bloggers, developers, start ups and long-established travel companies chewing the cud together on the future of travel. Last week, for example, the UK’s blogging community prised their fingers from their laptops for a get together, for the very first time, as […]
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New Media Skills: Creating Video Part 2 – Video Editing Programs
Though it’s overwhelming—and often impossible—to keep pace with the innovations in multimedia technology, the good news is that whether you understand them or not, these innovations level the playing field between consumers and professionals. This is the case with video cameras, and it’s also the case with the video editing software you’ll need to produce […]
» Read more...New Media Skills: Creating Video Without Losing Your Shirt – Part 1
Today I toured a million-dollar video production studio and once again have come to the conclusion that producing video can justifiably seem complicated to most people. Like sell-your-first-born-and-mortgage-the-house complicated. As I left the dark wonderland my head was spinning with the thought (and the cost) of it all. That is, until I remembered my own […]
» Read more...Learn from travel great at TRAVELLERS’ TALES FIRST FESTIVAL – 10% discount available
Jonathan Lorie, Director of Travellers’ Tales has just emailed his faithful following with details of the company’s first ever Festival. It isn’t often that travel writers – wanna be and professional alike – get the chance to spend a weekend picking up tips of the trade and mingling with Michael Palin…not to mention John Simpson […]
» Read more...New Media Skills: How To Create Audio Slideshows
The blood continues to flow among print journalists this week, but that just makes our opportunities to build skill sets even more important. We can react to the change in our medium by throwing our hands up in the air or we can act by setting ourselves up for the next wave of media opportunities. […]
» Read more...Travel Reading Group & Online Travel Writing Bootcamp – inspire and energise your writing
As a reader and editor, I’ve always had slightly more of a leaning towards travel literature than fact-focused guidebooks. Of course, both genres do have different jobs to fulfil; travel books’ rich, subjective descriptions inspire us to visit far-flung places and then, once you’ve visited and with every subsequent book you read, writers’ differing responses […]
» Read more...2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award Winners
For those few who haven’t had a chance to check out the winners of this year’s Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, you can check them out here. For more details on the awards and the winners, check out my latest post on Gadling. Happy writing!
» Read more...Three Emails You Should Read Every Day
It’s a short post today – I’m finishing the final touches on some presentations I’ll be giving at the Society of American Travel Writers’ annual conference in Houston, Texas, and I didn’t want to shortchange my interview with interactive journalist Tyson Anderson (check back soon for that one—he’s got some great insights on infographics, pitching […]
» Read more...Pitching Multimedia? Make Sure To Answer These Four Questions
Businessweek.com Editor and Chief John Byrne recently said, “It’s not, as some people say it is, ‘online vs. print,’ because the contrasts are actually more insidious and dangerous than that. The more threatening contrast is between aggregation and original content — because aggregation is something that’s cheap.” His words, though now buried deep in the […]
» Read more...Travel News and Features – where do your best stories come from?
I’m feeling reflective about pitches and travel features, and have spent time this week revisiting and reviewing my contacts list. And with World Travel Market on the horizon in November it’s a prime time to focus on the type of leads and people that really deliver. With my background in guidebooks, my professional network consists […]
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