Thinkific and videonot.es Review

Thinkific:

Is a web-site that allows you to distribute courses online. Either you are a  sole proprietor, large corporation or school. Thinkific allows businesses and schools to build web-sites which are specifically created to build your brand and also to grow your audience.
The site is free but with limited capabilities. If you subscribe for annually or monthly subscriptions, you will be able to enjoy more services.
It is a great platform for teaching staff or students in schools who are providing online courses.



Thinkific

Videonote:

Videonot.es is a video note web page that allows the user to take notes as a video is playing. I think that this would be very useful for presentations. If videos need to be shown to classes or provide lectures to groups of people. Videonot.es would be ideal to not only just watch  videos but to co-ordinate the video. The notes can also be shared and also placed on evernote. Videonot.es is an opensource platform. 

Videonote

How to Recognise Potential #Bloggers and #Influencers for Social Media Purposes?

How to Recognise Potential Bloggers and Influencers for Social Media Purposes?

Well first of all what are “potential bloggers” and “influencers”

The internet is full of comments, recommendations, legends and myths, too much information we can get overwhelmed and the most important which one is true or reliable?

There are couple of people out there, who are very active in blogs and social media this true influencers drive action not just awareness, as said by - Jay Baer
+Jay Baer 

They are the ones who can move the internet world in good or bad ways

You want them, because normally consumers will trust more third parties recommendations than your own, they will believe it more they will be curious and get engaged with the information you provide and ultimately with your own brand, you will attract not just your audience but their audience too.

There are couple of things to consider before considering a potential blogger/influencer and publishing their posts

• Monitor Social Media

  Who is there talking about your niche? if you are talking about paris look for them in your own social

• Research Hashtags

  Is the best way to get visibility and to see how popular is the subject you are searching for; this places are awesome to find and manage hashtags, plus you can find your right blogger here: hashtagify.me Hashtagify.me RiteTag,  Tagboard
• +Tatiana Kochergina (hashtagify.me) +RiteTag +Tagboard 
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• Read

  Read through their posts of your potential bloggers to determine if they write about relevant post topics that can compel your audience, are they fun? are they too serious? are they original? are they visually attractive! remember pictures and video attract more than long same format reading.

• Reliable Source

Do they have any degree or specialization in what they are talking about? Better they do! also, if they have been talking about that for years probably they already have some good knowledge about it

• Often Posting

Internet and the world itself is moving extremely fast, loads of information get to our hands in seconds, so if you are looking for a post try them to be as up to date as possible.. Information changes and updates constantly.

If we don’t consider these couple of questions before posting to our social we can be giving wrong information to our guests or customers, that will lead to bad reputation from our company, or website, confusion and anger, leading to bad events like: they will never get back to you and your audience will drop, dramatically… forever…

Session 6

#rezzolutions - #citizenMRotterdam New Year's Eve

Lucky me - I won a free stay from +citizenMHotels and selected the Rotterdam hotel.  Am here for FreeNYE and will check out the fireworks over Erasmus Bridge - a mere 2 minute walk from the hotel - to viewing space!!

What is especially fun is that each employee is sporting a Tshirt with #rezzolutions on the back - and a cheeky chic saying on the front.

#rezzolutions - here are 3 I spotted

• Right bed, right time...with the right person
• Power Nap yourself to Awesomeness
• Turn off your phone, turn on your partner

Each cool, fun + insightful.  Each staff member got to select (online) their preference - et voila, that's what each gets to wear.

More NYE at #citizenMRotterdam later....wishing you and yours a 2016 full of adventures and original thinking.

Liz

Effective Social Marketing for Independent Hotels

 Many thanks Monste Flores - creator of So Berry Paris for super insights.

Hotels Use Texting for Guest Service

It makes sense!!  Almost 90% of people with smart phone use texting for their communications.  

This Customer Think article provides a number of examples of guest-hotel and hotel-guest texting for services.

Key Takeaway:

With texting, hotels can make sure their customer service isn’t taking a vacation. Using the right technology, they can boost engagement and grow revenue by contacting customers on a channel they prefer, and also foster loyalty with an intelligent mobile experience that travels with them and anticipates their needs.

Used in conjunction with geo-targeting + predictive requests, personalized smart hotel texting can be a revenue source.

Full CustomerThink article here.

LESS TEXT MORE MESSAGE!

LESS TEXT MORE MESSAGE!

A good finding for all you, who can't let the phone down:

This app is so much fun, it lets you send short messages, songs, even the bark of your dog, you can also  keep them forever or it erase automatically the ones you don't need, and so much to do

Keep the conversation going!!

Connect with each other

Curious?
You can download at:

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cord/id877653840?ls=1&mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cordproject.cord

Have some fun FUTUREMAKERS!