by Bruce Turkel | Apr 21, 2007 | Branding
“The Travel Industry Association is aiming for February 2008 as the launch date for DiscoverAmerica.com — the country’s official travel and tourism Web site. Initially the URL will target the five biggest sources of international visitors — United Kingdom, Japan,...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
There’s a lunch counter on display in the Smithsonian Institution that was taken from Greensboro, North Carolina. According to the plaque, Greensboro was the site of the first civil rights sit-in in the American south. But at least a year before the sit-ins in North...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
At a recent Search Engine Strategies conference, GM’s CEO for Latin America was on the panel talking about how GM had set up a blog for their executives and how they were allowing uncensored comment from anyone who cared to participate. When Federico Calvo from my...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
As the marketing of travel and tourism continues to change, two travel sites are taking a cue from YouTube and distributing consumer-created video content on their sites. Travelistic.com and LonelyPlanet.tv are both offering users and tourism bureaus the opportunity...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
There’s no doubt that brands are badges, telling everyone who we are and how we want to present ourselves to the world. But how far does this go? A recent article in the New York Times suggests that brand-badge symbolism has become so powerful that certain cars...
