Ok, this week we're going to be launching a site every travel blogger is going to love.
A fully functional interactive map system that is far more robust and holds a lot more information than current solutions.
Basically, it's going to be Oistr encompassed in a blog.
Blogger is great, in the pursuit of ultimate flexibility and customization you have access to the actual HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) where you can insert all sorts of awesome things to make your page better.
We're going to provide a tutorial and the ability for any blogger who would like to show their pictures and video on a map (and post it in the public domain for the rest of the world to see - and even better, link back to the blog) that is interactive and intelligent. It will show people exactly where the bloggers content from a single city or the entire world.
It works like this: You go to www.oistr.com where you create an account and upload your photo's or embed the Youtube videos. Once they're up you place them on the map in groups called "trips" where they took place by hand (moving the map around to the location and clicking on the exact location) , by lat/long (if you have GPS) or by address.
Next, you add the code for embedding the trip in your site. You can even add the individual trips to a master trip so you can show everywhere you've been in the world or just the latest stops.
Voila, a fully interactive map that allows users to finally get the full scope of where you've actually been whether it's 500 miles between cities or 32,000 across a continent.
Please go, enjoy!
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, November 24, 2008
Writing the Oistr Press Release
This is the release I plan to send to bloggers, newspapers and anyone who might want to write about our site once it is released as version 1.0
I've written it and re-written it. Writing a press release is actually quite hard.
You want it to be dramatic to get peoples attention, but you don't want to talk crazy. It has to sum up the business and what makes it unique without boring people. It has to be done in as little as 3 paragraphs, and certainly not reaching 2 pages unless each paragraph is more engaging than the last.
I think I've done quite a nice job. It's straight forward, it accurately describes what we are doing, it tries to convey the excitement we feel about the product and has specific calls to action at the bottom.
I'd love to hear what anyone else thinks.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 2008 — Oggle Interactive announced today their new travel-tourism site aimed at increasing customer travel satisfaction.
“Stats are showing a decline in satisfaction from customers that book trips through big online companies, and we aim to fix that. As travelers ourselves, we’re also sick of the corporate pandering that most travel sites inevitably pass on to their customers, and we present a better option.” - Co-founder and Marketing Director Scott Carmichael.
Oistr.com, in its infancy, is designed to be a unique integrated travel resource that uses a wiki-style aggregation of information to present all sides of the travel world to its users. Designed to be media rich and map-based for geographical reference, the future will see the addition of travel blogs, games, online booking of hotels, flights and restaurants, and the sponsoring of users that inspire other people to travel.
Currently the site is giving users a unique and powerful interface to show their travels and allowing them to recommend places to go, businesses they liked or didn’t, and to share their pictures and video in trips or right on the business listing. The “trips” can be public or private but Oistr asks that useful information for other users be marked as public with or without your contact information. Also, make friends, be a traveling leader people will watch or ask for advice. If you found a great deal out there or a bait and switch, others want to know.
Oistr is asking for your help. Go to the website, www.oistr.com, use the customer feedback feature and tell us what you think! Explore the site, inspire others to travel and guide them by showing your travel experiences, or simply your own home town.
I've written it and re-written it. Writing a press release is actually quite hard.
You want it to be dramatic to get peoples attention, but you don't want to talk crazy. It has to sum up the business and what makes it unique without boring people. It has to be done in as little as 3 paragraphs, and certainly not reaching 2 pages unless each paragraph is more engaging than the last.
I think I've done quite a nice job. It's straight forward, it accurately describes what we are doing, it tries to convey the excitement we feel about the product and has specific calls to action at the bottom.
I'd love to hear what anyone else thinks.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 2008 — Oggle Interactive announced today their new travel-tourism site aimed at increasing customer travel satisfaction.
“Stats are showing a decline in satisfaction from customers that book trips through big online companies, and we aim to fix that. As travelers ourselves, we’re also sick of the corporate pandering that most travel sites inevitably pass on to their customers, and we present a better option.” - Co-founder and Marketing Director Scott Carmichael.
Oistr.com, in its infancy, is designed to be a unique integrated travel resource that uses a wiki-style aggregation of information to present all sides of the travel world to its users. Designed to be media rich and map-based for geographical reference, the future will see the addition of travel blogs, games, online booking of hotels, flights and restaurants, and the sponsoring of users that inspire other people to travel.
Currently the site is giving users a unique and powerful interface to show their travels and allowing them to recommend places to go, businesses they liked or didn’t, and to share their pictures and video in trips or right on the business listing. The “trips” can be public or private but Oistr asks that useful information for other users be marked as public with or without your contact information. Also, make friends, be a traveling leader people will watch or ask for advice. If you found a great deal out there or a bait and switch, others want to know.
Oistr is asking for your help. Go to the website, www.oistr.com, use the customer feedback feature and tell us what you think! Explore the site, inspire others to travel and guide them by showing your travel experiences, or simply your own home town.
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