Posts tagged ustream
Great use of Social Media by the Vikings
22 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
If you don’t know, I’m a die-hard Minnesota Vikings fan and I glad to see them embracing some of the social media tools that I think can be of real value to any organisation. The one that I’m really stoked on is going on right now in the locker room after their recent 34-20 win over Cleveland, they’re live streaming the post-game press conference via their Ustream Channel. I mean how cool is it to see Adrian Peterson talking about his 180 yard/ 3 TD afternoon?!
If the Vikings can do it, why can’t you use social media tools like Ustream, Flickr, Twitter or Facebook to give your fans and/or customers a sneak peak behind the scenes of what your business does? For me, I’m thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to Ustream or Qik current mountain conditions from the top of Jupiter Peak – any other ideas out there?!
Photo Credit: Vikings Ustream Channel
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Social Media Panel at the 2009 Utah Tourism Conference
32 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
I’m excited to say that I have the distinct pleasure of sitting on a what I’m confident will be a great panel at the 2009 Utah Tourism Conference this Thursday afternoon from 2:00pm-3:30pm and again from 4:00pm-5:30pm. The title of the panel is “Using Social Media Technologies to Promote Tourism: It’s Time to Join the Conversation” and I’m looking forward to discussing this topic with Thomas Cooke from the Salt Lake City agency Welikesmall and Jay Evensen from the Deseret News.
Thomas is incredibly knowledgeable about marketing in the Utah tourism industry and also brings great insight into the social media world, I know this from sitting through several marketing meetings with him and most recently we were both at the San Francisco Inbound Marketing Summit. I admit that I’m not acquainted with Jay, but I have seen that he’s been blogging for the Desert News for a year or so with some very good engagement (commenting).
The topic is wide enough that I think that we are going to try to do some basic introduction to the social media space, what it is, why tourism businesses should be paying attention to what’s going on there and how they should then engage in this space. I imagine that we’ll be able to get into more specifics as well, so please bring your questions, concerns and ideas.
If you aren’t able to make it to the conference, we’ll be streaming the panels via our ustream channel at www.ustream.tv/channel/utc-09. Just a quick disclimer, it may wind up being via the camera on my MacBook Pro unless I find an external video camera that I can grab a live feed from, neither of my video cameras seems to work. Hope to see you at the conference or on the web on Thursday!
PS – I have a draft of an inbound marketing for ski resorts post that’s been sitting around on my WordPress Dashboard for a few days, I’m thinking that i may split it into a multi-part post, stay tuned…
