Family Blogging & Writing
Posts that talk about the craft of freelance writing and blogging.
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The amazon Kindle electronic reading device is not the be-all, end-all of “electronic book” technology, but like the Apple iPhone’s impact on mobile phones, it moves the genre forward considerably.
You can read a lot more than books; owners of the wireless-enabled Kindle
Through one of my content syndication services, Newstex, the content on this BootsnAll Family Travel Logue is …
Date: January 5th, 2009 |
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We’re talking travel blogging at South by Southwest
Well, hurray for success the second time around….
Last year, I sent in a proposal for a travel blogging panel at SXSWi (the South by Southwest Interactive tech/online media conference) here in Austin, Texas, but it was not selected.
I only pouted for about a week, really.
Always bull-headed, I tried again this year and re-submitted my proposal, since I figured that it was a good idea that deserved another try.
The conference organizers apparently agreed; I just got an email telling me that Blog Highways: Travel Blogging for the Wanderer is …
Date: November 19th, 2008 |
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The travel blogger’s lament
You know what drives travel bloggers crazy?
We don’t have time to blog when we travel.
I mean, we do only if we don’t sleep.
Sure, just gather info all day, take notes, shoot video, shoot photos, then spend all night drafting blog posts, uploading/grooming/tagging video, uploading/grooming/tagging photos and launching all of that info out into the blogosphere.
Just add a lot of Red Bull to your life, right?
I’ve been here in China (on the China 2.0 Tour) since November …
Date: November 15th, 2008 |
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Audio post: impressions from a day in New York City
Some impressions and thoughts from a day of running around New York before I live-tweet the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards this evening.
Lesson for me: stop trying to do too much and you’ll have a better time as a traveler!
I’m going to have you click this URL link for my New York audio post, because (just like the last time I tried this) every time I try to embed the player, it plays someone else’s random audio …
Date: October 15th, 2008 |
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Become a Family Travel Logue fan on Facebook
Are you active on Facebook?
When I’m wearing my Web 2.0 teacher hat over at Every Dot Connects, people often ask me how to get started in social media without getting completely overwhelmed.
I tell them to establish a professional profile on LinkedIn (here’s mine) and go play on Facebook.
There are three places on Facebook where I’d love to see my readers come by and say hello:
I welcome new fans on the Family Travel Logue Facebook page. Write on my Wall!
My personal profile for Sheila Scarborough – …
Date: September 29th, 2008 |
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Got a passport? I have a purpose for it….
I want to call your attention to a worthy project that four of my travel blogging colleagues are spearheading this holiday season.
Passports with Purpose seeks to raise awareness of the travel blogging community and its generosity towards the places we travel.
You might know some of the organizers:
Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby
Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View (who is also my co-presenter at the March 2009 travel blogging panel at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech conference
Michelle Duffy, …
Date: December 1st, 2008 |
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Video: the Beijing to Shanghai overnight train
During the China 2.0 Tour, our blogger gaggle took the “soft sleeper” overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai, China. We left at about 7:30 pm at night from Beijing and arrived Shanghai at 7 am.
In China, perfect strangers share four-person compartments (both men and women together) but we re-jiggered compartment assignments as much as we could to have at least a few of our 2.0 Tour bloggers in the same compartment.
I shared with two very nice Chinese passengers and the ever-buoyant and enjoyable David Feng.
We had dinner aboard the train and I slept like the proverbial log. Something …
Date: November 17th, 2008 |
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I’m thinking about the future, not the rotten economy, and that’s why I’m going to China
(This is cross-posted on the Perceptive Travel blog and Every Dot Connects.)
I know that I’m a very fortunate freelance writer and social media/Web 2.0 trainer; I have a military pension and health insurance from my 22+ years in the US Navy. I can ride out the current economic storm (with a lot of belt-tightening) so it’s somewhat easier for me than for others to set fiscal angst aside and go to China …
Date: November 5th, 2008 |
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Live, from New York, it’s Condé Nast Traveler!
Yes, the annual Condé Nast Traveler 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards will be coming to you live from their big awards ceremony on the evening of October 15, because I’m going to be there to “live-tweet” the event on my Twitter stream.
That woman in evening attire at the New York Public Library XYZ swanky Manhattan venue (details to follow on ceremony location) who is supersonically typing on her laptop? That will be me.
Hopefully my Merlot and crudités won’t get dumped onto the keyboard. …
Date: October 1st, 2008 |
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Breaking news: I’m going to China!
My readers know what a semi-psychotic fan I am of Web 2.0/social media, not because the shiny tools themselves give me vapors, but because they allow me to meet and become friends with the most amazing people.
One of those friendships just brought me a stupendous opportunity - Elliott Ng of the travel research site UpTake and Christine Lu of the China Business Network have kindly invited me to be a participating blogger in the China 2.0 Tour in November, which ends with attending China BloggerCon in Guangzhou.
It’s hard to even type that, I’m so excited!
Other participants …
Date: September 26th, 2008 |
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