Apologies to all MyBlogLog Friends & Contacts

It’s my fault that I have lost some of my friends and contacts at MyBlogLog by thinking I could do a work-around, the submitting a web site or blog process.

It all started when moving a site to another url. Websailingdesigns.com (wsd) moved over to jackkennard.com (jk).

I finally came to the conclusion that I would not be a company with employees but self employed as a contractor or consultant.

WSD has been listed in MyblogLog for several years with about 60+ members and since the new site would have the same information & pages I thought it would be easy to just go into the Setting area and just change the url and the news feed url. An easy update that went through smoothly. However none of the new posts would come through to the Mybloglog feed.

Now it took about 2 weeks to figure this out and the wsd has already been pointed to jk so there was no way to post anything on wsd to notify any of the viewers of the changes.

So I hope I never have to do this again, not because of technical difficulties but it’s not right to keep your viewers guessing why you haven’t written. And I apologize to all my friends at MyBlogLog and anyone else who may have been lost in the transition.

Some ideas to make the transition work smoothly for everyone:

1. Let your viewers know 2 weeks ahead of time of the changes that will take place.
2. Of course make sure you have backups.
3. Let your viewers know how emails or rss feeds will change.
4. Once you have the new site up and running correctly, notify everyone with posts and emails from the old and new locations.
5. Give everyone the right amount of time to transition over before pointing the old site to the new.

If you have any other suggestions, I and everyone would like to hear them.

Sunset Resorts uses Social Media as Travel Agent Training

Sunset Resorts Jamaica has several videos on YouTube that are packed full of information for travel agents.

OK, so Steve is very excited about his property. And he does a good job providing plenty of sales information for travel agents, but I wonder if he could have provided the same info for the travelers, so agents could also use the video as a sales tool?

Using Flickr Photos as a Social Network

Reasons to use an online Photo Storage Service

There’s a lot of good reasons to use an online photo service. Online photo services make it easy to save and organize your photos for later. Have you ever tried to find a picture from your last trip and had no idea where it could be? Ever had your hard drive crash and were not able to recover anything on it? I have, and it’s not fun.

Sharing your Photos
Sharing your photos online is a lot easier and faster than emailing your photos to all your friends and family. And your friends and family can also keep up with your new pics.

Networking your photos
This maybe a little extreme: I just came back from Barbados and saw about 20 properties, and yes I have plenty more to go. Some unique features: These pictures are sized to fit on any area of a web site, each picture has a description, and are copy righted as creative commons so they can not be resold, anyone can use them, and there must be a reference that I am the photographer.

I liked Club Med so much I set up a Club Med Group on Flickr where others could share their vacation photos as well. What a great way to see other Club Med locations than through the eyes or photos of others that have been there. And if there are more questions there is a place to start a discussion or ask questions.

Here is a fun video that explains Social networking with photos in a nutshell.