Can you imagine what it’d be like to travel around the world?

If you have ever fantasized about traveling around the world in one go, take a look at this blog by Andy Stoll, a self-described filmmaker, writer, social entrepreneur and independent traveler who set out in August 2006 on his two-year trip. As Andy shares his travelogue, he also shares some interesting insight into his intercultural findings [...]

Is it time for a redesign?

According to Ben Martin of CAE, yes it is. Ben examines why most blogs have their navigation bars on the right, and concludes that it may be to enhance readability of content on mobile devices on which one reads left to right and top to bottom. Using that standard, our blog proves to be less [...]

Bring on the comments!

You may recall that late last year we had disabled our comment feature for a while since Something Extra had been under attack from spammers. Whereas I believed that we had reengaged the feature a few weeks ago, I was sadly mistaken. While meeting up this morning in Second Life, Mike of Grass Shack Events [...]

Making the list

Our blog has made the list! Highlighting meeting industry blogs, Successful Meetings has listed Something Extra along side its own (mimegasite.com), Marriott’s, and Starwood’s blog in its March issue.

Blogging for Tradition: Starbucks in China

The Chinese blogosphere has been all abuzz over the call to have Starbucks removed from Beijing’s Forbidden City. The U.S. coffee shop, and let’s face it – icon, opened in 2000. Teresa Valdez Klein of Blog Business Summit examines this debate and states:
Any company that does business in China has to be aware of the [...]

Blogging for Business

To all fellow SITE members who I invited to visit our blog, welcome! Take a look around, email me if you have any questions, or post a comment. Feel free to visit other related blogs, face2face and meetingsindustrysoapbox, to experience how the industry is blogging for business.

Blogging with Caribbean Accents

Nicholas Laughlin, a Caribbean editor for Global Voices, gives an interesting synopsis of the recent roundtable discussion held at the Caribbean Studies Association’s (CSA) annual conference in Port of Spain, Trinidad last week. The discussion, “Global Voices, Caribbean Accents” drew bloggers and non-bloggers alike, covering topics such as the stereotypes of “Caribbeanness” on the web [...]

Thank you for the tip

October 1 was declared Blogtipping Day whereby bloggers chose three or more fellow bloggers they admired, listed three reasons for which they admired each, and linking to each provided one tip. Melissa Petri at Road Gladiator chose me as one of three Business Travel bloggers she admires (thank you!), listing among the reasons:
… despite [...]