Categories
Internet Marketing Resorts

Why Marketing on Social Media is Like Feudalism and What That Means for Resorts

I authored a guest post over at Gregg’s SlopeFillers.com about owning your own online marketing (and not giving it all away to social networks like Facebook and Twitter): In exchange for using the network and its features you may become indebted to the network to help promote it, could ultimately pay for the right to […]

Categories
Internet Recommendations Technology

Top apps for tracking your season at Buzz

Check out my latest guest post over at Buzz where I highlight some of the lesser known features of Instagram, foursquare, and EpicMix — my top three apps for tracking my season on the snow.

Categories
Aside Aspen/Snowmass Buttermilk Cooper Copper Mountain Crested Butte Echo Mountain Eldora Mountain Internet Loveland Ski Area Monarch Mountain Powderhorn Purgatory at Durango Silverton Sol Vista Steamboat Sunlight Mountain Technology Telluride Winter Park Wolf Creek

Colorado Ski Country online Hub

Check out what’s going on around the various resorts in Ski Country over at the Hub, a new site dedicated to pulling in all the blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and video content from around the state.

Categories
Internet Technology

OpenSnow iPhone app now available

Kudos to Joel over at OpenSnow for launching an iPhone app. If you want to see photographic, on-the-slopes, evidence of new snow in Colorado, this is the place to check. Be sure to sign up for the powder alerts so you know when the inches start coming down.

Categories
Gear Internet Recommendations

Unique Ski and Snowboard Gifts

Dave over at SlopeSource has pulled together an awesome roundup of unique ski and snowboard gifts found over at Etsy. My favorite is this Abominable Snowman Bumble Monster Hat, $27: Get your retro Christmas movie fix on with the Bumble Monster hat from the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer movie. Just like the Bumble Monster, […]

Categories
Beaver Creek Breckenridge Internet Keystone Recommendations Vail

How to connect EpicMix to your online Facebook and Twitter profiles

Another quick post over at buzz on how to connect your social media profiles like Facebook and Twitter to Vail Resorts’ EpicMix social network.

Categories
Arapahoe Basin Beaver Creek Breckenridge Internet Keystone Technology Vail

New EpicMix apps available for 2011-2012 season

Head over to the EpicMix homepage to download the new iPhone and Android apps (version 2.0) for the 2011-2012 season. With some slick design changes and updates for the new photo sharing, you’ll want to make sure you have this in hand if you’re heading up to Keystone this opening weekend.

Categories
Beaver Creek Breckenridge Internet Keystone Photography Tickets Vail Video

Vail resorts announces EpicMix Photo

Vail Resorts (Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone) has announced their technology plans for the second iteration of their popular pass-based technology: EpicMix Photo. RFID-enabled passes I remember when resorts were first trying out RFID-enabled passes: the ones with the chips in them that, with special scanners, can be picked up when you get close to […]