In my position as general manager of client services for Travel and Transport, I traveled significantly last year and have been on an airplane 12 weeks in a row in 2010. Okay, I have to admit, one of the weeks out of the 12 was a vacation to Mexico with the family.
New data on business travel's value ... See more
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Three months ago I posted an item about how annoying Twitter was and how I just didn't want to face it. I was determined only to publish into Twitter links to our stories and never look at it again. For some reason I can't get the dang
Twitterfeed to work for all content from ProMedia.travel's free newsletters, but glitches aside, it is pretty amazing how quickly a content producer can generate followers with no effort.
Twitter.com/thebeat_travel has 383 followers and we did nothing.
So, Twitter is a great tool for the dissemination of information. But after reading more on blogs like
TechCrunch about how Twitter is a real-time search engine of people's thoughts, I started paying more attention.
I want to be one of the first to predict what will happen in the business travel market in 2009. Why do I want to do that?
