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After reading the press release below, I still can’t quite believe what little exposure hoteliers have had to mobile apps. The fear of adopting new technology is understandable but this needs to be addressed sooner rather than later because it is only the hotel that is losing out. After all, where would a hotel be today if it didn’t take a chance on the internet over 10 years ago?
McLean, VA, 10/25/10 – The Knowland Group, the world’s largest data firm in the global meetings and conventions industry, today released a survey on hoteliers’ and meeting planners’ attitudes and experience with mobile apps. Results show that while a majority believe mobile apps are the wave of the future, few have any firsthand knowledge of them. This inexperience means hotel sales professionals are currently unable to fully capitalize on the popular new technology.
A majority of respondents agree that mobile apps are here to stay. Sixty-seven percent said they believe apps are useful tools that are going to be around for a long time. “I think they are going to have a very big impact and are just now starting to break through with business,” said one event coordinator for a Colorado Springs association….
Read the whole press release here - The Knowland Group
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Urban Dictionary is a website that allows users to help create an encyclopaedia of slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 and today has nearly 5.3 million definitions that have been submitted by registered users.
So, I compiled a list from Urban Dictionary of all the words that I have found myself using…
Appsberger’s Syndrome
- Compulsion to download apps for things we can do ourselves or live without entirely.
I refer to my ShopListFree app that I make shopping lists on or Sleep Cycle app that shows the deepness of my sleep on a graph!!
APPsolutely
- The digital way to say absolutely. The mobile was to say absolutely.
I also like to use the word appy instead of Happy i.e. Appy Hour
Geotility
- Making things useful for where you are.
- Overlaying geographical information on to other information to make it more useful.
- A compound of geographical and utility.
A good way to see geotility in action is to go to www.autopilot.ie
iPhonatic
- A person who is overly attached to his/her iPhone.
I am indeed an iPhonatic!
Tourist-tastic
- A location, landmark or point of interest that is extremely popular with tourists.
“Temple Bar is tourist-tastic on the weekends!”
What words do you find yourself using?
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The Dunbrody Famine Ship from 2001 is a full-scale sea-going replica of the Dunbrody launched in 1845 and wrecked in 1875. The original ship was was a three-masted barque built in Quebec in 1845 by Thomas Hamilton Oliver for the Gravesfamily, merchants from New Ross. While primarily a cargo vessel, her fame was as a passenger vessel during the Spring and Summer months of the years 1845 through to 1851 when she carried famine sufferers to North America. Often 50% of the passengers died on these “coffin ships” however the Dunbrody was known for a very low-level of mortality.
The ship operated up to 1869 under the Graves family and then sold. In 1875 the ship floundered off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador and was lost.
The replica is open to visitors and has an exhibition on the life and experience of living on board an emigrant ship in the last 1840s.To see more places of interest in Wexford, check out the map created by Autopilot on The Monart’s Spa Hotel website (click on “Find us”) or view the map directly here!
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WOW!!
This photo is amazing!!
Jay Fine, a 58 year old photographer waited 40 years to get this perfect shot. He patiently watched weather report after weather report and each time he would grab his tripod and camera and head down to Battery Park in New York to try and capture the perfect shot.
“I was ready and waiting and took 81 shots before finally getting this one.” said the determined snapper. “It was pure luck really, a once in a lifetime opportunity. It’s the first photograph of it’s kind I have ever seen.”
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One minute, I’m heading down a road towards a field with houses to the left dating back from the 70s/80s and suddenly the road has completely changed with brand new houses and a sudden cul de sac. Maybe the Google Streetview car is a DeLorean??
Do the time-warp for yourself - click here
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I doubt this house get’s much junk mail!!
Without doubt, these are probably the coolest gates in Ireland! If someone can top these, I would be very impressed!!
Check it out on Streetview for yourself - click here
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Sited in the heart of the walled medieval city, St Audoen’s Church of Ireland Church is the only remaining medieval parish church in Dublin. It is dedicated to St Ouen the 7th century bishop of Rouen and patron saint of Normandy. The Guild Chapel of St Anne houses an award-winning exhibition on the importance of St Audoen’s Church in the life of the medieval city. Visitors to St Audoen’s will see the part of the church still in use by the Church of Ireland as a parish church. They can also view the 17th century memorials to the Sparke and Duff families and the 15th century effigial tomb to Baron Portlester and his wife.
To see more places of interest in Dublin, check out the map created by Autopilot on The Morgan’s Hotel’s website (click on “Find us on GPS”) or view the map directly here!
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Congratulations to Thomas Farrell, the designer of the Sir John Shaw monument because the face is so life like that even the “cutting-edge face blurring technology” by Google can’t tell the difference!
Check it out for yourself in Google Streetview
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Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
It’s funny but I can’t stop singing this song since my previous post on Streetview in Ireland!
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New research shows that mobile and social consumers search for specific businesses in local areas. The new comScore Local Search Usage Study empowers the realisation that mobile marketing is a new channel to market.
About 45% of consumers don’t have a specific business in mind when conducting a local search online. In fact, more local business searchers begin with general keyword terms in search queries. They have products and services in mind, but they are not sure where to make the purchase, according to a study released Monday from 15miles, the local, mobile and social marketing arm of TMP Directional Marketing.
On the other hand, 56% of social and 60% of mobile users are more likely to search with specific businesses in mind because they are already outside the home looking for a nearby business to fill a need. The study points to a lack of sophisticated search functions in social networks for the differences.
Read the full article at Media Post
