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GREEN BUSINESS CHOICES

Companies worldwide utilize “travel” as a means of gathering corporate employees and holding communication and education seminars. By holding seminars, companies are able to plan a mastermind round table of business leaders, executives within the company and industry. These types of events are helpful for teaching classes, launching new product lines or building company cohesiveness. Many companies go so far as to setup an event website for the program. Event sites, also referred to as specialty sites, are a simple way to explain the event, provide all pertinent event information (venue, address, telephone number), a contact email and links to booking sites for both transportation and accommodations close to the event site. Event sites can help a travel coordinator track attendees. By using the site as the email client in exchanges with prospective attendees, it is easier to remain organized. On the even site all registration fees, hotel/motel fees and any other costs associated with the event can be posted. This makes it easier to register, handle the accommodations which in-turn leads to a better response to the event.

 

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Via Maria Cristina Terenzio

Excerpted from the article by Nicholas Herold on Darwin Ecosystem Blog:

"There are a lot of great pieces on the techniques and tools of content curation, and almost all of them include some version of do’s and don’ts. 

 

This is the way I think about content curation: If you were a museum curator, you would be thinking about 1. Your audience; 2. Your theme; 3. Find pieces that would work in that context; 4. Acquire the pieces; 5. Plan the space for the exhibit; 6. Advertise, and 7. Install.

 

Obviously there are major differences between curation in a museum and on the Internet.

The most important difference is the time scale: events on the Internet are new every picosecond.

 

In almost every other important respect, the role of the museum curator is the same as that of a content curator on the Internet. The 7 steps above are all the same, except the context is a bit different: you still need to plan how you’re going to exhibit what you’ve acquired.

 

Curation is a tool to get people who are interested in your field to come to you and regard you as a trusted source.

 

First, the Do’s:

1. Do pay attention to your subject: Keep on top of your topic.

2. Do give credit to others where you get stuff from: in a world where SEO credit comes from others, it makes sense to scratch their backs, and give them a reason to scratch yours.

3. Do find interesting content to share.

4. Do share the content in context: It’s not enough to post the relevant content, you have to say why you think this is important. 

 

Now for the Don’ts:

1. Don’t appropriate—curate. This means that you should not take someone else’s work. It’s okay to quote small portions of text or visuals, but grabbing the content and resposting it as you own is appropriating, in other words, stealing. 

2. Don’t forget your audience. A while back I tweeted something that was a bit controversial and unrelated to my topic and lost about a third of my followers. 

3. Don’t pitch your product by pretending it’s the content you’re curating. If someone feels you are only interested in selling, you will lose followers.

4. Don’t give up!

 

Read full original article here:

http://www.darwineco.com/blog/bid/83561/4-Do-s-and-4-Don-ts-in-Content-Curation

 

Via Giuseppe Mauriello

If you look around the web at any blog or website these days they all seem to have social sharing buttons installed as default in a bid to drive more traffic Could Twitter And Facebook Sharing Buttons Actually Be Losing You Traffic?

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge

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Via Guglielmo Cornelli, AlGonzalezinfo