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04/24/2009 By Jason Bean

Get Your Travel Advice from TravBuddy

I spent around seven years in the travel industry as a corporate travel agent and somewhat quickly moved into being a technology manager for travel services. Now, I help travelers find the best INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS INSURANCE to travel around the world. One of my responsibilities over those years was to design and manage internal travel websites for our corporate clients. The website shared information about preferred vendors for air, car rental and hotel information as well as travel policy and the other normal stuff.

One thing I quickly realized in my experience with travel was that I didn't have any desire to do leisure travel (although I always did dream or planning and organizing independent travel excursions to Africa for safaris and the like). Finding out information about destinations that you're interested can be a challenge, and usually the best advice you get is when you can talk to someone that's been there. I just helped a friend who had questions about their upcoming Disney trip to celebrate their daughter's birthday. And I found the best hotel Flagstaff to book.

The TravBuddy website has combined the best of sharing travel information and destination reviews with the tools and feature set of the current social networking sites that seem to be springing up everywhere. This is a great marriage of content and function in my opinion.

TravBuddy is a site for people who love to explore the world around them. You can use TravBuddy to find travel buddies, record travel experiences in travel blogs, or share travel tips with travel reviews.

No matter where you are exploring, we hope this site will make it easy and fun for you to chronicle your experiences, both past and present. We hope that it will also be an invaluable resource for keeping in contact with family and friends, and for making new friends from all around the world.

If you don't already have an account, you can register for free or take a tour to learn more about the site.

The TravBuddy Team

Now my only problem is figuring out how to get more time and money to actually travel around more than I do now, which is pretty much non-existent. The one thing I never took advantage of while in travel was actually traveling that much. However, the benefits aren't exactly what you've probably heard or expect.

04/24/2009 By J. Bean

Managing Facebook Information

There’s an area of Facebook that I believe really needs to be addressed for a variety of reasons. As you begin finding old friends from high school, connecting with extended family members as they begin using Facebook, and maybe even start connecting with clients and co-workers, there’s an issue of who gets notified of your updates when you have them.

If you imagine all the different groups of your contacts as an extending circle of influence similar to what would be shown in the image below.

Let’s think about your closest friends or family being the center circle, and extend from there the groups of people you have less contact or influence with in your personal life.

You may want to send an update to your friends and family, that’s not seen or available to your old high school friends, or perhaps more importantly those clients and co-workers that you’ve found on Facebook.

As far as I know, there’s no way to accomplish this currently on Facebook. In some instances your circles may not nicely overlap.

It’s this occasion where I think you should have the ability uncheck different groups of your friends to not be informed of an update or be able to see it as visible. By default all of your updates would go to everyone as the functionality exists now.

But on those occasions where you would like to exclude certain groups, you could uncheck their group for being included in the update. Also, if an update was marked private in one of these instances, any response by that group of friends would also only be viewable by the people you’ve identified as being able to see that update. So someone’s response to your “private” update should not appear on their wall.

04/23/2009 By J. Bean

Temporarily Change Cellphone Ringers

I’ve discovered yet another feature that doesn’t exist (that I’m aware of) on my cellphone or anyone elses. Normally when I’m onsite with a client I’ll turn my cellphone ringer to completely silent. I don’t want it on vibrate either, that’s just annoying. I usually have the phone sitting right in front of me and notice it when the screen lights up, I then pick-up the phone and answer it.

What I’d like to be able to do is to have a secondary ringer that I can specify in certain situations. I know I can set specific ringers for different people in my address book. The problem is I want to change ALL the ringers for a specific amount of time.

Does your cellphone allow you to do this? Does someone that uses the PPC-6700 like I have know a way to accomplish this request? Let me know.

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