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Over the last month, I have participated in a couple of different social media projects that have related to the travel and leisure industry.

One of the projects related to the live tweeting of the Omega China Golf Tour and the tournament in Nanjing, China.

The other was the adhoc social media coverage for the Travel Daily Travel Innovation Summit in Beijing, China.

Out of my experiences, I am writing an article on the “how to’s” and art of traveling while obtaining twitter gigs. The goal is to find out from companies/tourism promoters some tips and ideas plus I am throwing it out there to other readers/writers to see if we can’t collectively piece something together on the topic that would be useful for future tweet travelers.

Thank you for your input  :)

Before we get into a battle on the merits of including one social media tool and not a dozen, it’s fair to say that if you don’t use twitter enough, find your comfort zone and add something unique to your business card. Again, twitter has captured the moment over a lot of the other tools. My first batch of unique, limited edition cards included both my linkedin and twitter @ for people to reference. What I posted here is my second edition card created by Sekkei Studio. (The sponsors of my blog)

Overall, I think putting your twitter @ on your business card can be useful for a number of reasons. Here is the basic action, objective and strategy laid out in a very simple format:

Action: Print your twitter @ id on your next batch of business cards. If you don’t have a clue about twitter, check out the resources that Laura Fenton has created over at Pistachio

Objective: To Highlight the fact that you are taking twitter seriously as a component of a social media strategy. For a good overview of social media strategy, check out what the good folks over at SparkPlug CEO have to say on Social Media Strategy

Strategy: It makes for a good conversation for people that haven’t heard of twitter yet. Yes, the first half of 2009 is definitely looking good for Twitter. You need to keep up on this stuff!! Here is a great person and resource: A shameless and unsolicited plug for Shel Israel’s upcoming blog and book: Twitterville