Featured Blog Posts – July 2010 Archive (6)

How I got a job blogging for an entire region and not just for myself

This morning I changed my profile 'photo" on TBEX from the logo of my personal blog, arttrav, to my photo. Because I now write three blogs, and I'm writing professionally and full time. How did this happen?

Last summer, after finishing my first year as a professor of art history on a study abroad program in… Continue

Added by Alexandra Korey on July 31, 2010 at 1:52am — 13 Comments

Heard of/Going to The Travel Bloggers Show Sept. Orlando?

Hi TBEX Community,

Wanted to see if any of you are going to The Travel Bloggers Show in Orlando, Sept 11-12?

While…

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Added by Mary A Huff on July 27, 2010 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments

A Chat with Don George about Book Passage

Don George, Kim Mance & Jim Benning at TBEX '10

For anyone who attended TBEX '10 in NYC this June, the memory of the "Travel Writing: Upping Your Game" panel which kicked off our Saturday morning session wouldn't be the same without Don George.

Formerly the global editor for Lonely Planet, Don has set a standard and literally… Continue

Added by Kim Mance, Founder of TBEX on July 25, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

So what does the travel blogging industry look like anyway?

It's a good question. There has been talk about whether this community of like minds (not the TBEX community per se but the community at large) or an actual profession or an emerging trend that will someday become an industry.

I know that I personally would like to know. As a marketing professional new to the industry, I not only deal with travel and public relations professionals, but community managers, hospitality professionals, marketing reps and lots more. Where does the… Continue

Added by TBEX Admin on July 8, 2010 at 2:58pm — 14 Comments

How I Got My First Press Trip

Press trips are a brass ring that many travel bloggers reach for, since it's very difficult for many of us to fund all of our own travel and still have a lot to blog about. For the first 2.5 years of blogging, I've been funding my own trips, which means I can only travel a few times per year. I have to make the most of each trip I go on, so I have plenty to blog about for months to come. I believe most of us who are blogging about travel today probably fit that self-funding model. With press… Continue

Added by Gray Cargill on July 7, 2010 at 11:41am — 16 Comments

The ABC’s of TBEX

Last weekend pretty much the entire travel blogging community met up about 30 minutes from my apartment (or as you would call it New York City) for the second annual Travel Blog Exchange.

From my last count there are currently 859 blog posts about TBEX online. Actually I just refreshed my TweetDeck – make that 864. While many have commented on what was great, what could have been different and just how much booze they inhaled over the 48-hour period, I felt that as a…

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Added by Andrew Hickey on July 6, 2010 at 10:03am — 1 Comment