It is Easter Sunday. In the wake of my father’s death (the reason there was no Food For Thought last week) I think about god. Yulia does an Easter Lent. So I thought about the Easter Lent in Germany and learned only today about “Seven Weeks Without”, an Easter Lent initiative in the German churches. [...]
As Blogs are a part of “social networking” and as I follow several blogs like the German Tourismuszukunft, I thought to share some thoughts. As usual, I do appreciate your feedback. This blog is meant to trigger thoughts and make you ask me. My statements are thoughtful, but not necessarily the only truth. Often enough, [...]
Lately major discussions in Germany and online are the various public “rating” sites. Using Qype myself and HolidayCheck for the hotel ratings and reviews, I am a mature online user, able to read as well between lines as when I read the catalogue of a tour operator…
From many of my replies here the extract: It’s [...]
FVW Blog just mentioned a senior travel industry manager asking, who has time to read all that information published “Web 2.0″.
In the good old times, we had no control on who said what. But it did not matter much, as the word was forgotten quickly. Today, thoughts are not voiced, but published. So word reaches [...]
In all the euphoria for Web 2.0 I am lately traveling in “Modem-country” again. Oh no! Do you remember?! No high speed Internet, connections with 40K or even 33K (thousand) only, where a slow DSL is 768K, normal are 2M (million). Wow. It is relatively easy to use Google and many other websites, but then [...]
This blog-post has been prepared, as are the next ones the next two weeks. I decided to go for an adventure trip to Russia. And no, not to Moscow or Saint Petersburg, but into the country.
The region I visit is addressing international markets but lacks a decent airline connection. In fact, there is one. But [...]
From: http://bringmearock.blogspot.com/By Edward J. Fern, Time to Profit, Inc.
Throughout the time I was employed by others, I played a game I call, “Bring Me a Rock.” The game has thousands of minor variations but they all follow the same basic format.
The game begins when the boss calls me into his or her office and [...]
A German saying asked “Do you still have sex or do you play golf already?” (Hast Du noch Sex oder golfst Du schon?). Adapting it this week to “Hast Du noch Privatsphäre oder googlest Du schon?” (see title).
Following the general and naive media hype (can the media be truly that naive?!) about the new Google [...]
Best Western hit the media this week being reported to have been hacked and 8 million customer datasets being stolen. Best Western objected the news, mentioning they have no proof for such hack and they would delete their data anyway frequently.
Say WHAT? Corporations spend millions acquiring customer data and Best Western deletes them? Hmmm…
No matter, [...]
Russians outnumber German visitors in Antalya. Russians invest in TUI, Air Berlin, Öger Tours and other travel companies being “unsexy” to “traditional”, “Western” investors… Oh god, the Russians are coming…
Eyes on Russia… Lately (as usual: Thanks to a beautiful woman) I learn a lot about Russia. The image shown mostly on TV is misleading. That [...]
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