As traveler aficianado's, thought you would
enjoy this post from Wendy Perrin of CondeNaste
and the Perrin Post..IMO, she is one of the very top travel journalists, who is also a treasure of travel information and more than willing to share:

http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/perrinpost/2009/04/25-tips-travel.html

That article by Wendy Perrin was what finally convinced me to subscribe to Twitter. She is a great resource!

I sat with Wendy Perrin at a travel conference two weeks ago. She's a class act.

By the way, ya'll are welcome to follow me for tweets about travel and baby boomers. http://twitter.com/DonnaLHull

Be sure to follow your favorite travel providers as in airlines, hotels, etc. Sometimes they offer deals only available on twitter.

LOL guys, I admire you'all.
Frank and I wouldn't even know how to begin a twitter, don't have an IPod and don't know how to work one, don't have a blackberry and don't know how to work one. We are lucky we can deal with our computer and cell phones. Kids all tell us we are totally out of date. Don't do Facebook, or any of those others, because wouldn't know how to even begin.

Come on, JoAnn, you can do it. I twitter from the computer. These old fingers don't type fast enough on a Blackberry or Iphone. The buttons are too small.

Twitter and Facebook are the new web presence for business. There are some big changes in the internet coming with the web being a very different place in the next year or two. Domains as they exist today will totally change. I've been chatting with web developers of late since I just redid my whole website.

The evolution is going to be subtle but interesting and business will totally change as well.

I love Twitter. I use it exclusively to tweet about cruising. You can "follow" me at http://www.twitter.com/luxcruisebible

I also follow a lot of travel providers and have won some cool things including American Airlines Admirals Club lounge passes, RF luggage tags (trackable via the Internet), and a dinner at Shula's Steakhouse. Gotta love that!

Andrea

JoAnne, twitter is as easy to log on daily as it is to log on LCT. And you learn travel tips (from Andrea, Donna, Wendy Perrin, etc)Just sign up at twitter.com

Re: Facebook (FB)... There are many of us LCT'rs who are on FB (marcie and Ray are very prolific and have fun touching base with friends/family)
My FB friends from LCT include (Andrea (and follow her), Beth, Crystal, Coffeecup, JimB,
Chatkat, Marcie, Mark Conroy, Nancycp, Pat, Ray,
Sue Okray and Susan Walsh. And there are many, many more LCTr's on FB...please join the fun at
facebook.com

I'm with JoAnn, respect anyone who wants to use those things, but not for me! My cell phone is primarily my "car" phone, I don't text or do anything else on it but make phone calls out of the house. No way am I interested in sending out daily messages about my daily activities on FB. I must have inadvertently signed up once for Twitter, and then started getting messages "so and so is following you on Twitter", and quickly got out of that one. Great for biz, I guess, but I have no need to promote one because I don't have one! And get more information than I need without all these distractions!

I'm just one of those old dogs who has already learned enough tricks to keep me more than happy.

I'm an old dog, too, Olivia. I never use my cell phone as I forget my number - no kidding - and drives me nuts listening to people in grocery store talking on cell "Harvey do you want whole wheat bread or rye?" And talking and driving I hope they outlaw it - I signed on for FB but deleted as 90% of the people I communicate with I do through email or phone so didn't feel I needed FB - however, it seems to bring tremendous pleasure to many so I'm all for it!!!

Thank God! Olivia and Joanna, I'm not the only one! DH reminds me to turn on cell phone when I leave and I still haven't learned the # after a few changes! Keep it in my purse but don't ususally hear it b/c of car radio and store noise.
VERY grateful to have it when car totally died in June in 4PM traffic, to call AAA!

Driving and phone use is distracting enough to ALL, in my HO, but texting while driving freaks me out - drivers in ATL are nuts enough!

Re: FB, etc., agree with Joanna and don't need to waste any more time than I already do on the internet!

So happy to hear your opinions, as I was going to PM JoAnn!

Signed,
"Old Dog"

Halajulah! I am not the only one! Marc finally taped a small piece of paper with my cell phone # on it to the back of my phone! FB..I am on it but was telling Marc the other day I just don't see the point of it. I guess I am getting to be and old dog too

It took me forever to learn my cell phone # too since I only used it to call out, never incoming calls. I have no idea about Twitter...no interest.

As for FB, it is fun. I'm not sure what Wes means about me being especially prolific ?? I check in every few days and it's fun keeping up with old H.S., college, and cruise friends that may not be on LCT. It is so easy.

When I got my first cell phone years ago, my girlfriend worked at the cell phone store and hooked me up with a super easy phone number, lol. She wasn't there when Mark chose his phone number so I have a hard time remembering that one!

I joined FB in hopes of finding some old high school chums (our 50th reunion is the 15 & 16 of Aug. in Omaha) and did come up with four. Otherwise I post a lot of albums and short videos of our World Cruise that don't require any special downloads.

I think I will join Twitter to take advantage of bargains coming along but have no interest in being an active poster.

Penny and I both have an I-Phone but we are always under our allotted minutes; however, the phones contain our calendar, contact list, important photos, games, email, special applications, etc and therefore is very important to us.

I love all the new gadgets but, alas, am a slow learner. Fortunately I have an Apple Store within bicycle riding distance and I pay for classes covering I-Phone, MacBook, MacBook Pro, airport extreme, AppleTV, MobileMe and various software programs. The Apple people were an immense help to me in completing my WC video and I continue to attend classes.

Life is good!


Cheers! Ray