We’re changing. Our relationships online and in real life are shifting as we become more public with our private lives. Online social networks have helped our real world social networks transcend time and space making it easy (and seemingly essential) to share the triumphs, tragedies, and trite moments of life. No longer do you simply tell your best friend that you’ve broken up with your boyfriend. It feels natural to many people to tell hundreds of Twitter followers, and Facebook friends.

No matter how you feel about the appropriateness of over sharing, the shift towards a public private life ischanging our expectations of the relationships we create online. Remember the websites of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s that used formal language to create a professional, guarded persona and brand? The trend was towards the serious, because it seemed like you couldn’t land clients or entice new users if you weren’t stuffy.

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You will feel a real excitement when you drive across the city’s central square and look out to the sides of the gorge that divides this amazing town. The main street in Ronda crosses the famous and spectacular 100 feet deep gorge, which divide the city into two. Ronda is rightly the most famous white village of Andalucia,  enthroned on this  high rock. Tourists hanging over the edge to get a feel for this of awesome and historic city in heart of Southern Spain, just 40 min from the coast and Marbella. The old town is reminiscent of the Romans and Arabs – and Spanish renaissance and baroque palaces and the churches. Ronda is also home to Spain’s oldest bull ring, made legend by the American writer and bullfiighteraficionado Ernest Hemingway and actor Orson Welles. Ronda offers passion, history and beauty. Check out my pictures from the area and if you need a hotel in town, remember IGH Hoteles will be happy to accommodate, quality hotels in a quality location.

Enjoy Andalucia, Love Ronda…

Damn it is only Monday!

We have just completed the first group website for IGH hoteles and we are very pleased with the result. I am the architeqte behind the structure of the stite and it was my aim to introduce a hotel website with a Social media twist. Utilising Twitter for announcing special offers and news. A Facebook group that will offer a loyalty sheme for all members and a Flickr account to hold a vast image libary for all the properties and the area about the hotel.

When you are looking to book a hotel online, its my opinion that you are looking at so much more than just pictures of a bed, bath room etc.You want to get a feel for the hotel property I went to see and stay in each our own properties and attempted to photograph the “property soul” as well as the area just around the property so that the prospective client would look at get a feel for what could be installed for them.

The site utilises Social media to boost internet rankings and over the next few months I hope to see the site popularity rise and more guests coming to our properties, you are all welcome!

• Blog posts
• Social Media Articles
• PDFs for download
• Guest reviews
• Hotel Videos
• Press releases
• Twittering
• PDFs for download

Repackage your content and distribute it through as many channels as possible to build a powerful web presence that increases your hotel’s visibility.

This brand new Hotel representation Company is starting in the in Spanish and Latin America markets and is already operational with a number of hotels in the Andalusia region of Spain. The aim is to expand across Spain and Latin America in the coming months and we have ambitious targets for Q2 in 2010 with 100+ properties as part of the

Roomr will introduce a brand new approach to hotel online presence and the key drivers are social media, which are starting to play an increasingly important role in hotel online marketing. Review sites like Tripadvior Trivago, Holidaywatchdog, Hoobing, Yelp and many more are constantly evolving and changing the pattern with which people are making decision on hotel bookings. New sites are cropping up all over. We believe that consumer generated web content will play an increasingly important role in the decision making process when making a hotel booking in the years to come.

Its possible to follow the development of Roomr on Twitter, Facebook.

I have just achieved Blackbelt and all my email accounts have been migrated to Gmail now, I can tell you it works like a dream and I am definitely not missing Microsoft Outlook one bit.

Why not try it yourself?…Become A Gmail Ninja! Or Look Like A Huge Nerd Trying

Here is how it works, a small folder Icon apears on your desktop and you simple drag the documents you need backed up or are looking to share with others into that folder and like magic it gets syncronised onto your online Dropbox account. Now your can access your documents anywhere, anytime and even share certain documents with friends or collegues. Works like dream, so simple…try it out!