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Video Commerce Consortium interview on Vacations Canada TV

12. May 2009

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Last week I was interviewed by Justin Foster, Founder of the Video Commerce Consortium. The Video Commerce Consortium is the world’s largest and fastest growing group of e-commerce professionals, online marketers, and technologists dedicated to advancing the use of video in e-commerce.

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Online Revealed 2009 – Canadian Online Travel Conference

9. April 2009

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The 4th Annual Online Revealed conference begins Tuesday April 13, 2009. I head out tomorrow for a quick visit home to the little Scottish town of Fergus, Ontario and then off to the mighty Niagara Falls.

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Canada E-Connect 2009 – Case Study

8. February 2009

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Since it was my first (and perhaps my only) time presenting in front of a large audience at this year's Canada E-Connect conference, thought I'd post some photos of the experience.

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User-Generated Content – the ONLY option?

8. February 2009

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I was very honoured this year to be asked to present a case-study at the 2009 Canada E-Connect conference on Brewster’s online video campaign, Vacations Canada TV.  This was my first time speaking in front of an audience this size but I think I did alright.  Throughout the case-study, I tried to demonstrate that as online video usage [...]

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Canada e-Connect Conference 2009

4. December 2008

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The second Canadian e-tourism strategy conference; Canada e-Connect will be held in Toronto Jan 21-23, 2009. This event is now hosted by the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and the program promises a great lineup for Canadian travel industry professionals. Click here to see the Canada e-Connect program. I have been asked to [...]

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Brewster Receives Best Travel Site Award

28. October 2008

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At a recent user conference in Boston, MA, Brewster Vacations Canada was recognized by leading content managment solution provider Ektron. Brewster’s new website providing vacations and tours in Canada, was awarded the 2008 Ektron All-Star award for Best Travel Site. Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage [...]

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Vacations Canada – New Package Website LIVE

26. April 2008

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Vacations Canada is now LIVE! This new Canada vacation package website features the best of Canada including train vacations, motorcoach tours, self-drive holidays, golf packages, and much more! Canada travel planners can now view enhanced planning content including pricing, itineraries, pictures, videos, dynamic maps, and even traveler reviews and photos. Vacations Canada TV episodes have also [...]

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2007 Canada E-Connect Conference Video

6. April 2008

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If you missed the Canada E-Connect Conference this past November in Vancouver, you can check it out here. It was a fantastic event and I’m already looking forward to the 2008 conference…

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Dot Travel – Future Uncertain for Travel Domains

10. February 2008

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Following recent news surrounding dot travel domains, travel marketers are questioning the value of adopting a proposed common domain extension for the travel industry. Ironically these questions have likely contributed to the slow adoption and changes occuring. The dot Travel (.travel) domain was launched globally to the travel and tourism industry to create a trusted standard [...]

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Winners Announced – Canadian E-Tourism Awards 2007

26. November 2007

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What a fantastic inaugural event! The Canadian e-Tourism Awards ceremony took place on November 8th at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, BC. Category finalists were announced and Miss Canada was there to help present the awards. In the spirit of Web 2.0, a Travellers category was appropriately introduced and Mike Earle won the top [...]

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