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April 13, 2006

Starwood blog misses the point

- NevilleHobson.com

Starwood Hotels & Resorts is the first major hotel company to make the leap into the blogosphere, says the Wall Street Journal, with a blog called TheLobby.com. But its initial approach to the genre has as much in common... ›››

Category: Advertising | Blog | Business | Marketing | Travel | public relations | weblogs

April 05, 2006

News on the go

- NevilleHobson.com

Travelling to the UK today, ahead of co-presenting the second one-day workshop for Melcrum in London tomorrow on Enhancing your Intranet with New Technology: How to Make the Most of Social Media. The first one in this series was... ›››

Category: Blog | Events | Podcasting | Travel

March 31, 2006

What more could you want when the sun is shining?

- NevilleHobson.com

I arrived in Manchester in north-west England today ahead of my particpation in a one-day workshop for Melcrum I’m co-presenting tomorrow entitled Enhancing your Intranet with New Technology: How to Make the Most of Social Media. This is my... ›››

Category: Events | General | Travel

March 20, 2006

Grab Bag: Business Blogging in Wisconsin, World Water Day and Dr. Who

- Marketing Roadmaps

Last week was my trip to the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee to present my Business Blogging 101 Workshop (full day format) at  the UWM School of Business Center for Technology Innovation. The hospitality of the faculty hosts was... ›››

Category: Blog | Business Blogging | Charity | Travel | dr.who | grail | labyrinth | world water day

March 08, 2006

Not much happened at 35,000 feet

- NevilleHobson.com

Sitting in economy class for ten hours on a transatlantic flight isn’t really my idea of a fun way to spend time. The good news is that it was only ten hours flying back to Amsterdam from San Francisco.... ›››

Category: Travel

March 07, 2006

Travelling home

- NevilleHobson.com

Heading off back to Amsterdam today. It’s been a terrific US trip. Shel’s and Michele’s hospitality last week was peerless. The New Communications Forum was outstanding. I met with IABC yesterday: great discussions. Terrific bars and restaurants here in... ›››

Category: General | Travel

March 04, 2006

California pics on Flickr

- NevilleHobson.com

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr, all re my California trip including lots from the New Communications Forum. You can see the set here. Also, check out all the tagged Forum photos at Flickr. Here’s a... ›››

Category: Travel | ncf2006 | newcomm forum

February 24, 2006

The power strip solution

- NevilleHobson.com

If you travel a lot (or even a little) on business, it is well worth your time reading the stories of business travel - mostly horror but with some real positive gems and lots of irony - posted by... ›››

Category: Humour | Travel | Weblogs

February 14, 2006

Ridiculous wifi charges

- NevOn

Sitting in departure lounge 3 at Schiphol airport, waiting for my flight to Manchester. As is natural at times and places like this when you have a spare sixty minutes or so, I connect to the net to pick... ›››

Category: Travel | Web/Tech | You Must Be Joking

February 08, 2006

If I were an architect

- NevOn

If I were an architect, I wonder what my critical eye might make of the design of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, through which I travelled yesterday. It's one of the ugliest airports I've ever been to, a... ›››

Category: Bits-n-Bobs | Europe | Travel

January 18, 2006

Letting Yourself Be Changed

- Crossroads Dispatches

I read a blurb about a travel memoir in the Bangkok Post, I believe the book is titled Disappear, but I can't recall. What I do remember is that it reviewer said that the difference between a tourist and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Global Lens | Innovators and Creators | Travel | Weblogs

January 07, 2006

How to deal with too many choices

- NevOn

Whenever I travel to the US, I get apprehensive. Not about the travel or why I'm visiting the States. No, it's all to do with breakfast choices. Here's the scenario. It's breakfast time in my hotel. I sit and... ›››

Category: Business | Travel

December 29, 2005

Tan: 'Paradise is Inside'

- Crossroads Dispatches

Nearly half the staff of Maprao Resort - where I am staying now and was last year - fled from the island after the tsunami. The ones who stayed do not look out to sea just ten meters ahead... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Resiliency | Travel

December 15, 2005

Travelpod Folks Helped Me Distill Essence

- Crossroads Dispatches

Travelpod is an online community for independent travellers and they offer free travel blogs as well as other features like obtaining travel insurance. (Here's my companion Travelpod blog for TsunamiAnniversary.com - with more of a traveling pilgrim's theme.) As... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Participatory Marketing | Travel | Weblogs

November 26, 2005

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Snowed under - a literal tale

- NevOn (feed)

"Winter weather arrives," said the headline of my late-evening post on Thursday. The light covering of snow in Strasbourg didn't really match the optimistic headline, but my journey back to Amsterdam last night certainly did. After a relatively uneventful... ›››

Category: Europe | Travel

November 24, 2005

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Winter weather arrives

- NevOn (feed)

Sitting in my hotel room in Strasbourg, France, late evening, catching up with email (always a constant task!), I look out of the window to a world of white. Yes, it's snowing here. I arrived in Strasbourg late this... ›››

Category: Europe | Travel