Apr
19
San Francisco waterfront knowledge can help you win prizes
April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
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The San Francisco Waterfront Challenge, a new weekly “identify-the-photo” game, is giving prizes to waterfront-savvy locals and visitors. The challenge starts at noon on Wednesday, on April 20th. The photo challenge is a celebration of San Francisco’s lively waterfront and a promotion for the San Francisco Waterfront website and mobile application.
Here’s how it works:
- Each Wednesday at noon for the next for six months, a photo taken somewhere along San Francisco’s waterfront, from the Golden Gate Bridge to AT&T Park, will be posted online at San Francisco Waterfront. SF Waterfront Challenge rules are on the website.
Apr
19
Windland Smith Rice International Photo Contest
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
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Call for entries: The annual Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition deadline is just days away! Enter your best nature photography before May 2, 2011 for a chance to exhibit your work at the Smithsonian.
The Nature’s Best Photography concept began with simple yet dynamic goals: to celebrate the beauty and diversity of nature through the art of photography, and to use this far-reaching medium as a creative tool for encouraging greater public interest in outdoor enjoyment and conservation stewardship.
Apr
19
Nifty travel wallet
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I love this sturdy, way-clever, thin-as-paper, easy-to-conceal travel wallet. The linked article includes easy do-it-yourself instructions. Make several before your next trip, and stash your cash safely.
Apr
19
Sutro Media seeks authors for travel apps
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In their quest to blanket the world with superior apps, Sutro Media is looking for expert authors for the following European destinations. If you’re an expert on any of these areas, get in touch with acquisitions editor Kim Grant.
England: Most regions (but specifically Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Cambridge, Oxford, Yorkshire, Bristol); London.
Wales: Cardiff.
Scotland: general country guide, and Glasgow.
Ireland: general country guide, and Dublin, Belfast, County Cork, County Wicklow, County Galway, County Kerry, Northern Ireland.
Norway: general country guide, and Oslo, Bergen, fjords.
Sweden: general country guide, and Stockholm.
Finland: general country guide, and Helsinki.
Apr
19
Creating iPhone Apps | Tales Told From The Road
April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
Thanks to travel writer Dick Jordan (Tales Told from the Road) for his review of the App Happy class Suzanne Rodriguez and I (Laurie McAndish King) taught for people who want to develop and market their own mobile travel apps. We developed so much content for the class that we’re nearly finished with an an e-book on the same topic.
Apr
19
Author, sell thyself – Laura Miller – Salon.com
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Salon.com co-founder and New York Times Book Review contributor Laura Miller wrote in March about about the swirling milieu that is publishing…
“Last week, the book world saw a particularly symmetrical bit of revolving door ballet as Amanda Hocking — who famously became a millionaire by selling a series of paranormal romance novels as self-published e-books — signed a contract with an old-fashioned publishing house, while the bestselling thriller author Barry Eisler walked away from a similar deal, preferring to self-publish his next book. Did I mention it was the same publisher (St. Martin’s Press) in both cases? Like I said: symmetrical.”
Apr
19
How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Lisa Morton’s PIRATES! Or, How to Protect Your Intellectual Property on the High Seas of the Internet provides advice for tracking and dealing with unauthorized reproduction of work you’ve published online.
Apr
19
WSJ likes Don George’s column
April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a short from the Wall Street Journal, which likes Don George’s Trip Lit column for National Geographic Traveler. Well, who wouldn’t like it? Great books and incisive reviews by a legendary travel writer and editor.
Feb
21
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition
February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
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It’s time to begin gathering your best work over the past year to enter in the 27th Annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.
All information and entry materials are posted online at satwf.com. SATW has made a number of changes this year, including more categories for online work. Sign up here to receive updates by email. Entries must be postmarked by April 1.