During our time here in Egypt I’ve been trying to obtain as much content for our Nile Cruise 4u website as possible.

That means that I’ve been carrying around various bits and pieces to meet the requirments of gathering this content while travelling.

For anyone interested I’ve been carrying the following: Read the rest of this entry »

I love TweetDeck, the facility that allows you to see quickly and easily the various people you are following on Twitter.

I know people think Twitter is just a waste of time for people with nothing better to do with themselves but I strongly disagree.  If you have any interests at all, whether it be bird watching, cycling or reaggae music, you will defintely find some really interesting people and resources by using Twitter.

You can use Twitter Search and put in the search term that you are seeking and you are bound to find some really useful and fascinating people using Twitter.

If you then add them to your TweetDeck you will be able to see, periodically, the latest Tweet posts that they have made.  By doing so you will find a whole bunch of really interesting information and resources that you would otherwise probably not come across.

At college, (all those hundreds of years ago!!) we endured a subject called “Information Technology”, which, in the days when personal computers were not even in existance, was the most boring subject imaginable.

The “Technolgy” bit was fine, but there was no “Information”.  I absolutely hated it.  But now, using these faboulous developments such as Twitter, etc, etc, Information Technology is the lifeblood of the Internet.

“What’s this got to do with Nile Cruise Photos and Costco?” I can hear you say…

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I not sure how many people have noticed our “Twitter” update screen within the right-hand column of this blog.

We’ve been using Twitter for a fair number of months now and are using it increasingly to let people know about any developments or any great offers available within the Nile Cruise market place.

Our Twitter address is http://twitter.com/NileCruises

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What a strange title you might think…

The reason for the title is that for the last few months I’ve been using Twitter (the micro-blogging utility) to post short 140 character posts about Nile Cruising.

My Twitter posts might be details of late deals, perhaps Nile Cruise info or other things that I think people thinking about Nile Cruises might be interested in. It might just be information about the Nile Cruise office and staff.

Anyone who “follows” me on Twitter can see whenever I make a Twitter posting and, if necessary, can act on upon it.

So, say we had a great last-minute offer, I could post it up on Twitter and someone might spot it quickly enough to grab a real bargain. Read the rest of this entry »

Not sure how many people who read this Nile Cruise Blog use Twitter but I’ve been using it for a few months now as a way to let people know what special offers we have or what developments we are undertaking here at Nile Cruises 4u or on our sister website, Kenya Holidays 4u.

Twitter is almost like a “micro-blogging” system.   This Blog is on Wordpress, which is a blogging “platform”, and Twitter is a “micro-blogging” platform.  The difference is that Twitter “posts” limit you to just 140 characters.  Now you see where the phrase “micro-blogging” comes from.  So you are pretty limited as to what you can say.  However its’ ideal if you just want to let people know about something quickly.  well almost instantaneously.

You can “subscribe” to peoples “Twitter” feeds if you find someone’s posts interesting or useful.  I subscribe to a number of Twitter feeds from people who’s blogs I follow and, if you are interested in keeping up to date on what we post here on our main Nile Cruise Blog then you can follow our Twitter feed here.

Hope that made sense by the way!!