Hello fellow hostel friends and enthusiasts! My name is Courtney Loechl, and I am the new staff writer for hostelmanagement.com. Over the coming months I will be continuously filling this space with blog posts about all sorts of hostel-related topics.
Google has recently introduced a new feature called Google Hangouts On Air. We are really excited about this technology because it enables small groups of people to hold small video conferences that can be simultaneously streamed to YouTube and saved for future viewing.
A common question that I receive is "How is HostelManagement.com funded?" The answer has always been that I've funded it myself by doing hostel consulting.
I found a great way to visualize my hostels reviews over time so I can quickly spot trends in our customer service performance. It's called TableTools2 and it works with Firefox. The tool will create charts from data on any table on any website.
This is a quick tutorial on how to use our webinar software, Go to Webinar.
When you join one of our online events for hostels, you will see a control panel on the right side of your screen.
I wanted to share a few productivity tools that I've used that might be useful at some hostels. Here's the list:
Framejacking refers to sending someone a link that hijacks the destination website with an HTML frame. The two most common ways that links are framejacked are with ow.ly (Hootsuite) and su.pr (Stumbleupon). Framejacking is considered annoying by many Twitter users -- here's why:
A new eco-friendly tourism market for Norwich - New life for landmark city centre site
Press Release:
Norwich is soon to have its first backpackers hostel, a whole new tourism market for the city and the next venture for father and son, Alister and Jason Borthwick.
