How to Use Social Media to Build Your Personal Brand as a Travel Writer

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In How to use Social Media to Boost your Travel Writing, writer and teacher Rebecca Coleman will show us:

How social media can give a second life to your traditional media (magazines, newspapers, etc) articles

How social media can help you to build "expert status" as a travel writer

How social media can help you to connect with tourist organizations, hotels and restaurants in cities you are travelling to

How social media can help you to source ideas for stories

She will touch on the following social media tools and provide examples of how they can help to build your personal brand as a travel writer: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and video-sharing networks, like YouTube, Vine and Instagram video.

Rebecca Coleman is passionate about helping artists, small businesses and not-for-profits to become better marketers. An early adopter of Social Media, she has become increasingly interested in using it as a marketing tool, and writes about the subject on her blog. She has written 3 books, which help newbies create a marketing plan using social networking as a tool. She instructs courses in Social Media Marketing and blogging at BCIT, and travels internationally giving workshops.

Rebecca is an avid foodie with a healthy wanderlust, and shares her adventures on her personal blog: Cooking by Laptop (http://cookingbylaptop.com/), and is a regular contributor to Vancity Buzz (http://www.vancitybuzz.com/author/rebecca/).