#TourismTweetup March 2014

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How to manage it all….

We are lucky to have two guests joining us for our next #TourismTweetup on March 25th; Marketing and Communications Manager Craig Easdown from Centennial Parklands and Marketing Executive Lindsay Richards from BridgeClimb Sydney. We will chat to the pair about how these two iconic Sydney attractions started their social media journey, how they manage the day to day and what has been some key highlights and learning along the way.

All welcome and RSVP are appreciated.

Tuesday 25 March 2014
6pm - 7.30pm
Cafe del Mar, Rooftop Terrace, Cockle Bay Wharf (a quiet area is reserved)
You can find Cafe del Mar on Twitter here.

To RSVP please email me at holly@gofuturemedia.com or tweet me @hollygalbraith

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Last month
We had a great February #TourismTweetup with Sophie from Google Australia as our guest.
I put together a summary for those who may have missed it. Check out some of the key insights and takeaways as well as a few photos. I am aware the venue was a little noisy. Hopefully this will not be the case with march #TourismTweetup at Cafe del Mar and a quiet area has been reserved. Thanks for all who came along. Visit the February highlights here.

Lots of exciting things
I think I may have mentioned this before but I am a huge fan of Mike Stelzner from Social Media Examiner and especially his weekly podcasts. Although I tweet with him from time to time one of my goals is to actually meet him or preferable interview him. So I was a little jealous when friend and blogger from Brisbane, Donna Moritz (Socially Sorted) was interviewed by him on the topic of Visual Social Media. Listen to the podcast here to learn a little more about how images can help your social media marketing.

Looking forward to leading a panel at the ATEC Technology forum next month. Details here, it is shaping up to be very interesting program with discussions on the range of technology to improve activities around sales, marketing and tourism operations.

I'll also be heading to TedX Sydney on April 26th at the Sydney Opera House. Watch out for high tweet volumes that day as I hear from a range of amazing speakers including Afghani Photographer Barat Ali Batoor.