As you know, this year’s ITB and Blogger Summit took place in Berlin, and we were there! Last year we were incognito, but this year dodo.com was proudly represented with our stunning blue dodo shirts. Among all the black and navy blue suits, there was no chance of losing each other, and it was impossible to go unnoticed in the crowd.
Our main focus this year was on the blogger summit and technology exhibitors. We had several interesting conversations about the development of the community market and dodo.com itself. Among others we talked to Keven May, editor of travolution, who also writes for TravelWeekly and gazetteers.com. He is a great journalist and blogger! (Yes, you can be both.) You can see him and Claudia in the picture below.
We also talked to the Canadian travel & tourism technology consultant Stephen Joyce from rezgo.com. He is the publisher of the book Tips From the T-List, which gathers thoughts about e-tourism from many approved bloggers.
I would like to thank Claude Bernard from Les Explorers for the charming chat and, by the way, your English is great. I like the French accent a lot. We will hopefully accrue some more members from France now ;).
Apart from all the international bloggers, we also had a deep conversation about the community market with two German bloggers from tourismuszukunft.de: Florian Bauhuber and Jens Oellrich.
Apart from meeting several well-known bloggers, we also had the chance to see Angie (Mrs. Merkel, current Chancellor of Germany) and the famous and gorgeous actor George Clooney.
Alright, alright, so they are only wax figures! But still…. it was fun! Even more fun, though, was that we found the smallest playable foosball table—at least at the ITB. We love playing foosball. Well, not me in particular, but Axel, Daniel and most employees do.
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7 March 2008 at 12:51
nice to meet you all and all the best with Dodo.com. hope you enjoyed the PhoCusWright@ITB Bloggers’ Summit!
klm, ed, travo
7 March 2008 at 13:58
Thanks! We did enjoy it a lot.
10 March 2008 at 10:57
I can imagine how much you did - I can see it at the picture with Mr. Clooney
10 March 2008 at 17:14
Hi, looks like you had lots of fun there at the ITB
I can’t wait for those bloggers to write more about our dodo-project!