Karen Bryan's Blog (8)

I wrote a post yesterday for Top Travel Content Europe about rebranding the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The idea for the post came from a submission to Readers Pick about the writers visit to the city. I felt a bit guilty afterward that I'd mainly written about the 1990s war torn images that spring to my mind as soon as I hear the word Sarajevo. What the area needs is a st… Continue

I was fortunate to visit Croatia twice during April 2009. At the beginning of April I was on the inaugural Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Adriatic coastal city of Zadar. My two favourite things in Zada city were the Sea Organ, where the music is played by the movement of the sea water and wind and the… Continue

My apologies to Euravelers whio've beem spammed through the network by a supposed new member (who have now been banned). After this annoying incident I''ll now be approving new members which I did consider doing intially but thought it might deter genuine new members from joining. Continue

I'm trying my best to add some content to the Euravelers network but between the day job, the Europe a la Carte blog and writing for Wandalust blog I don't have much time left. I know we'd all like lots of great tips and advice for our travels but we all have to give some too. So Euravelers can you please try to make some comments, start a group, add photos etc? Continue

I decided that I should use my own domain name for the Euravelers network to make it a more memorable url than using a Ning ( the company who provide the social network framework) sub domain. I discussed it with my IT consultant, our son, a computing student and he thought that it was a good idea to use the Euravelers domain to build up the brand. I even managed to follow the instructions and set up the redirect to Ning from the Euravlers domain with my web host. Continue

The enormity of creating a travel social network is really hitting home today. I have to try to create as much useful content as I can to make the network appealing to potential members to grab their attention when they first visit the network or they won't bother joining and keeping coming back. Continue

I'm feeling quite apprehensive as I prepare to launch the beta of the Euravelers network but as they say "Nothing ventured, nothing gained". I'm hoping that by involving potential users at this early stage that the network will be more geared to members needs than by me assuming that I now what members want. I do believe that there is a place for niche travel social networks but we'll soon see if that is the case. Continue

I'm asking myself if there is going to be any interest in yet another travel social network. I believe the answer is yes because most of the existing travel social networks are very general. I think there is a significant minority of people who want to see more of the real Europe within a modest budget. They don't want to just do a whistle stop tour of the Europe where you end up actually seeing very little. They don't just want to lie around the beach but want to feel that they have had some in… Continue