http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T23:34:49Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Social%20Networking http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/8/102237/5865 <![CDATA[<P><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Jameson4sq.jpg" class="top"> <P>Last fall, during a visit to Chicago, we were walking through the River North area with our heads down, looking more at our phone than at the sidewalk in front of us. The reason was all the excellent tips and deals showing up on <a href="http://www.foursquare.com">Foursquare</a></b>, and when we walked near <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+James/local/1627">The James Hotel</a></b>, their lobby bar deal for two cocktails for the price of one was more than enough to pull us in. <P>Chicago's James was one of the first hotels to embrace Foursquare, and they continue to do an excellent job with it, as evidenced by their most recent promotion. Check in and "check in" at the hotel, and you're in for this deal: JetSetCD 2010-09-08T14:04:46-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/23/1245/86301 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/jwmarriottlobbybar4sq.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>The lobby bar at JW Marriott at LA Live is not on Foursquare but their Glance lounge is.</i><p>Do you <b>Foursquare</b>? No, not the game you used to play on the blacktop at recess. We're talking about <a href="http://ww.foursquare.com"><b>Foursquare</b></a>, the newest darling of the social media realm that allows you to declare your exact locations via your mobile devices. That's what's called a "check-in." (Not to be confused with your hotel check-in.)<p> The location-based service, which can be linked to your Facebook and Twitter feeds, awards points and "badges" as sort of a game to keep users interested in playing. Indeed, accumulating (or "unlocking") badges, particularly the silly ones, seems to be part of the fun on Foursquare. juliana 2010-03-08T14:38:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/1/12/225330/371 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/TwitterWins.jpg" class="top"> <p>it's too bad that <b>Twitter</b> doesn't have any sound effects, because for many, it would be the <i>cha-ching</i> of a cash register. For individuals and companies alike, social media is the new hotspot for contests and giveaways which, in the past, belonged in supermarkets with pads of entry sheets, or with mail-in postcards after watching a TV commercial about a sweepstakes. <p>As one-on-one (or millions-on-millions) as Twitter is, it is an extremely easy way for hotels to attract new guests, flatter loyal ones, and generally get their name out there with the messages they approve. <p>Thus it comes as no surprise that hotel Twitter contests have risen in popularity over the last few months, as they dredge JetSetCD 2010-01-13T12:15:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/14/114310/100 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/twitter_acceptance2.jpg" class="top"> <p>It's not just <a href="http://twitter.com/MarriottIntl">Marriott</a> that's been busy sending out updates all over <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/twitter"><b>Twitter Nation</b></a>. These days, a pretty sizable group of individual hotel properties have set up their own Twitter accounts to get in on the action, and many of them are doing killer jobs of utilizing the microblogging platform to tweet everything from room renovations to staff movements to rate specials (and sometimes more stuff that nobody cares about &#151; but that's all part of the beauty of Twitter, right?) <p>Rob over at Resideo.com has scoured interwebs to find dozens upon dozens of worldwide hotels using Twitter, and he's put together <a href="http://webtravelrob.blogspot.com/2009/02/hotels-using-twitter.html">a list of all of them</a> &#151; organized by location &#151; to Jenna 2009-01-14T12:00:13-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/10/10155/7015 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotelsdotcomvisualdna.png" class="imgborder"><p><b>UPDATE</b>: <i>Right now, the Visual DNA feature is available for the UK site only.</i><p>Perhaps we are just overly-skeptical of all things that link image identification to deep untapped psychological desires (or whatever) because we're the type that tend to see phallic images in every one of those ink-blotter tests, but goodness: even we had never heard of "Visual DNA" before hearing about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotelsdotcom">Hotels.com</a>'s latest scheme. <br> <p><a href="http://www.nma.co.uk/Articles/39511/Hotelscom+personalises+search+service+with+social+network.html">NMA</a> is reporting that the site has launched "a social network to help users personalize their search for a hotel" that utilizes <i>Visual DNA</i>. That is, users &nbsp;are asked to select from a range of images -- like beaches, room decor and restaurant styles. From there, the site will produce Jenna 2008-09-10T10:03:15-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/