Location Based Services such as Facebook Places, Foursquare, Yelp, and Gowalla offer tools for users to build their personal brand – providing features for individuals to live, love, learn and leave a legacy. But the real question is what can Brand Marketers learn from customer behavior on Location Based services within the Brand’s geocircle? What [...]
Who’s Coming to Tahoe Snowcial 2011?
Good question! We’ve got an awesome list of Speakers and attendees this year including people who have been with the event from year one and even a couple returning alumni who couldn’t make it last year. Here’s a quick breakdown. NOTE: This isn’t a complete list of Snowcial Attendees. If you’re not on this list, [...]
Snowcial Conference Lightning Round
The Snowcial Conference, the main formal event at the 4 day long networking session at Lake Tahoe, is only half a day long. It’s a tight, quick conference where you get the chance to hear key players in travel and tourism and snowsports marketing break it down without a lot of fluff. Then we all [...]
La Nina + Snowcial
Just a quick note to Snowcialites to be prepared to bring either your powder skis, or your SCUBA gear (or BOTH) for Snowcial this year. This just in from the Western Weather Group: A broad area of low pressure dropping southward from the Gulf of Alaska and a strong WSW’erly jet stream across the Eastern [...]
Things to do @ Snowcial if you don’t Ski or Snowboard
Snowcial is about more than just skiing and riding, and every year we have a few attendees who don’t ski or snowboard. But that’s not an excuse to stay off the mountain. Heavenly Mountain Resort has fun stuff to do even if you’re not a snow slider. Heavenly Gondola The Heavenly Gondola is a breathtaking [...]
Snowcial Blog University
We’re really excited to announce, that over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working with our friends at the Reno Gazette-Journal to put together programming for the morning of the Snowcial Conference (Friday January 7th, 2011). Snowcial Blog U will focus on how Snow Sports and Travel bloggers, and any blogger for that matter, [...]
Snowcial Logistics
It’s getting close! Harveys has already started shuffling the cards for the Snowcial VIP Poker Tournament on Wednesday, Jan 18th. (They’re very thorough…) So as you make your plans and arrangements for Snowcial, here is some helpful info to plan your trip. Getting to South Lake Tahoe Harveys Lake Tahoe Casino & Resort is on [...]
We’re really excited to have Dave Morin speaking at Snowcial. If you missed him at Gary Vaynerchuck’s Tahoe Tach Talk back in October, this is your second chance. Dave was co-creator of Facebook Connect, a powerful platform that let websites and apps connect with the Facebook social graph. But his most recent project, which launched [...]
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Moment Skis @ Snowcial 2011
Casey Hakansson and Luke Jacobson of Moment Skis have been a part of the Snowcial family since the event began three years ago. And each of those three years Moment doubled their sales worldwide. In fact, you can’t swing a dead cat at any Tahoe resort without hitting a colorful dude snapped into their fat [...]
Winner of Snowcial Speaker Competition: Stefanie Michaels, Adventure Girl
Sorry it took longer than i said it would, but we’re finally able to announce that we picked Stefanie Michaels from all of the awesome submissions to round out the Snowcial Conference 2011 Speaker Lineup. Stefanie is a blogger, writer, author, travel expert, green travel expert and social media expert for magazines and TV shows [...]
