Suzy Guese

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Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of April 5, 2010

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No, this is not a post about my tipsy episodes at various bars around the globe. Although, I bet some wish it was. Rather, I want to introduce a new segment to my travel site.

The amount of great travel posts out there can be daunting to keep track of weekly. My main problem is keeping up with these travel posts, re-tweeting them, and giving those great ones the love and attention they deserve.

If you follow me on twitter, you may notice I sometimes ask people to send me some post of theirs that needs a little tender loving care. I promise to stumble (Stumbleupon) the post and review it. I honestly read every piece sent to me when I make the call on twitter. The ones I truly enjoy, I try to comment. Not only do I get to read great travel pieces I have missed throughout the week, but I also have a chance at increasing others’ traffic, giving those little or big travel guys or gals some notice for their hard earned writing.

Keeping a look out for great travel posts left out to sea

Rather than just tweeting once a week and getting a few responses, I thought I would incorporate my travel stumbling onto my site. Many travel writers do a weekly round up of posts they enjoyed throughout the week. This generally brings in some traffic to those lucky selected ones, but I wanted to go one step further.

Every Monday, I will put up a post called “Suzy Stumbles Over Travel”. I will describe a few of my favorite travel pieces I stumbled from last week. Here is where you step into the picture. At the end of each post of my stumbling round up, I will ask travel writers or just readers that have seen a post they enjoyed that week to leave a comment with their favorite and best post of the week. In other words, you can submit something from your own personal travel site or a post from any other travel site. Please keep it to one link per comment and person. Also, leave the link in the comment box rather than sending it to me via twitter, etc. The deadline to submit your post will be every Saturday.

Over the course of the week, I will stumble, review, and try to comment on all of these posts that are submitted. The cycle will continue and I will post my 5 favorites every Monday that were brought to my attention last week. I suggest subscribing to my stumbles and following me on twitter to see if your post is getting my promised attention.

Come stumble around and let me draw attention to those drunken posts, those that get on top of the bar or stage for attention but never get noticed.

Up on stage, crying out for attention like most travel articles do

Comments

  1. Great idea, helping people help people spreading the love 😉 I haven’t even made it half way through my reading list today and already swamped at work. Let me read up and get back to you on this weeks fav!

  4. Great concept Suzy – I love this kind of a feature. Between Pam and her Blog Crawls, Chris’s Travel Blogger Friday and this, it’s great exposure – for the writers and the readers.

    I may have to steal the idea, then totally screw it up to be unrecognizable. 🙂

  6. Awesome idea, Suzy. Especially for those of us still learning Stumble. Show us the ways. And can’t wait to read your picks!

  8. While I’m new to the travel community, I’m looking forward to your Stumbles (I subscribed to your blog and Stumbleupon as well). <3

  9. What a great idea! Now I just have to figure out StumbleUpon (it’s on my to-do list for this week) and I’ll have a much better idea of what you’re talking about 🙂

  10. Hey, love the idea! Could you consider stumbling our latest post called “How we Saved Enough Money to Travel the World”. http://su.pr/2x9PxA

    We’re heading off on an around the world trip 60 days from now… We’re so excited!

  12. Hi Suzy! Such a great idea to spread the travel love. I think I’ll write about this in my Travel Bites of the Week to get the word out about this.

  18. Love the idea! That is kind of what we were going after with doing our webisodes, so everyones info is easier to find on a specific topic! Anyway, good luck and can’t wait to see your picks!

  21. Great idea Suzy!

    Are you also interested in sites for travelers? One of my friends started http://www.tripping.com, which is a social network for travelers who want to meet locals. It’s totally free and a cool site, so you may want to check it out. Looking forward to reading about your other favorites!

  23. Hi,
    If you get a chance perhaps you could check our our journey around the Atlantic/environmental education project.
    Read all about it here http://www.atlanticrising.org – for our blog just click the news tab at the top.
    Thanks very much I hope you like it!

    Lynn

  28. Hi again, Suzy! Here’s one that hasn’t gotten much attention this week (to my surprise, actually – I thought it might hit some nerves.) http://bit.ly/bu9eT1

    I really think this is a unique idea of yours. I like it!

  31. Hi Suzy,
    I love your idea– such a great way of connecting travelers, which is something I’m very interested in.
    Here’s a post for parents who want to keep traveling but need a little advice before getting on an airplane with a baby/young child:
    http://wp.me/pyyEX-3u
    Jenna

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