Sunday 30 July 2006 by Edward.

Google offers a beta test for Picasa Web Album, a facility to download and geolocate images. You can add captions, post and view comments, and organize photos online. Picasa allows you to upload, and download back to your computer. Here is a sample to a public album posted by Noel Jenkins, and how it appears on Google Earth.

Now here’s a useful tool. You can subscribe to Noel Jenkins’ album via an RSS feed. Every time the album is updated a notice would go out automatically to all subscribers.

Roger A. Brooks Rule 25 “The Rule of frequency” states that ‘Repetition gets results, repetition gets result.’ Did you get that? Repetition gets results. This is the key to getting people to visit your website. Be consistent. Send out that website newsletter or that update notice.

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Sunday 30 July 2006 by Edward.

Malta, “The heart of the Mediterranean”, recorded 1,960,368 website visits in the first half of this year, stated The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) as reported by Di-ve.com. That’s a 70% increase over the same period last year. Last month they averaged 12,422 visits per day. Di-ve.com reports that an MTA spokeman said ” In today’s globalised tourism market … we can no longer rely exclusively on traditional methods to put Malta on the tourism map.

Roger A. Brooks Rule 3 ‘The Rule of Billboards and Exits’ requires that you “Put your bait out on the highway”. Whether you’re a little island in the middle of the Mediterranean, or a continent in the south Pacific, the same rule applies.

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