About a week ago, one of the EyeForTravel crew interviewed me and asked my views about user generated content and the importance of social media in the travel industry. They're running the article now on the Travel Distribution News website.
The article is part of the lead up to EyeForTravel's 2009 Travel Distrbution Summit in Singapore later this month. I'll be participating in a panel discussion at the show. The panel concerns user generated content and is tentatively scheduled to include representatives from Travelocity and TripAdvisor. I will also be doing workshops on open source content management systems and reprising last year's workshop on search marketing trends and techniques.
The existence of a large and healthy crop of open source content management systems (CMS) is nothing new: Some claim more than 500 active projects are floating around out there in cyberspace. While the actual number of vital projects is most certainly much, much lower, the existence of relatively mature solutions like Mambo, Drupal and Plone prove that the open source CMS market is at the healthiest state in its history and that users now have more viable choices than ever.
Pligg CMS - Open source CMS focused on Web2.0 type social behavior. [My Delicious Feed]
A friend of mine sent me a link to a new Open Source CMS named Pligg. He knew I'd been looking around for Web 2.0 - specific open source CMS implementations (as opposed to adding Web 2.0 functionality via extensions, I was looking for a system who's core was tailored around the paradigm).
