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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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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 [...]
David Norton: Using social media to understand your customers
We’re stoked to have SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Harrah’s Entertainment presenting his experience and thoughts on engaging with customers through social media at the Snowcial Conference on Friday January 7th, 2011. David Norton has been with Harrah’s since 1998 and has been around to witness the sea change the entertainment industry has experienced. [...]
Josh Williams: looking beyond the simple act of checking in
We’re stoked to have a leader in the field of location based social networking applications presenting and participating in the 2011 Snowcial conference. Josh Williams is CEO of Gowalla, an application that lets us socialize around travel, sightseeing and exploring new places. Mr. Williams will be sharing his ideas on how location based social networks [...]
