Tag Archives: Facebook
Tourism crisis management and social media
[17 May 2011; 09:30 to 17:00. ] Perhaps the impression is so subjective, but apparently, the international travel industry increasingly shaken by crisis-like developments (and I do not mean the low margins). Nuclear meltdown, earthquakes, tsunamis, more or less peaceful revolutions, ash clouds, fast bankruptcy, strikes - just to name a few.
What role in the management of these situations by the travel industry social media? [...]
Replaces Facebook's own site - NO!
This afternoon Facebook announced via the developer forum that Facebook Pages now need to be authenticated in order to have landing tabs. This means any new visitor to your Facebook Page will not be able to land on a custom tab unless you have greater than 10.000 fans or the Page administrator has worked [...]
Facebook is working on simplified privacy settings
Facebook's Public Policy Director Tim Sparapani, spoke with Kojo Nnamdi today in Washington, DC and stated that the company would soon release simple privacy settings in the coming weeks. In addition to defending the company's position in providing for extensive number of privacy settings (Which is a legitimate position), Sparapani stated that there will [...]
KLM with a viral Facebook app - your personal luggage tags
via insidefacebook.com
Give away something, even if it is only a trifle, and attention is certain. KLM makes it with his little app - build your own luggage tag - and that the response from customers safe - free of charge. Viral marketing.
Posted via web from The Travel [...]
Fb content blocked
via flickr.com
I'm in the Terms of Facebook was overlooked?
Posted via web from The Travel Technology Consultancy
Facebook and the law
Facebook is claiming that it is a criminal offense to use an add-on that lets users aggregation service access information from multiple social networking accounts. Power Ventures, creator of the social network aggregator Power.com is being sued by Facebook, who claims that their terms of service bans users from accessing their information through automatic [...]
The target, travel management companies like Facebook are indispensable
Olaf Gueldner (pictured), Travelport president and managing director Europe & Brazil, said: "Are you in danger of losing your traveler to Facebook? There is a risk of losing the traveler in the process of booking the trip.
"They are using other sources of information before they go to the TMC [and] you are executing something that [...]








