PlanetEye

June 15th, 2009

Keep blogging about your city

Juan Gonzalez

Vice President, Technology

We’ve been running our Local Expert program for almost two years. Thousands of articles about world-class cities are available to help you understand each destination before engaging in a new journey.

More recently we started to invite independent bloggers to post their articles within our city guides. Bloggers in Lima, Marrakech, Mexico City, Rome, Santiago and Singapore have already enlisted. If you write a blog about a city for which we don’t have a featured Local Expert, we want to know about it!

And for all of you moleskine die-hards or modern story-makers, we would love to get pointers to any bloggers who are sketching their cities. Encouraged by the sketches of artist Gabriel Campanario, we are hoping there are more people out there that make it a habit to bring their drawings to the online world after a prolific session with their notebooks. Hopefully you’ll remember to note the address of whatever you’re drawing, as we are all about location.

As we discover them, we’ll make an effort to link to them from our city guides and give travellers a new way to explore destinations.

We’ve also made it easy for any PlanetEye user to submit reviews attached to a location by virtue of blogging about it:

Within your profile, you will now see a check box labeled “Import my travel-related posts.” By entering a valid blog URL (it must have a valid RSS feed containing your content), checking this box, and then saving your profile – each time you write a post that links back to a PlanetEye city or place, an excerpt will appear and link back to your blog post.

For example, if you were to write a post about the Peninsula in Chicago, all you would need to do is include a link to http://www.planeteye.com/Place/The-Peninsula-Chicago+357902.aspx

This should be pretty useful if you have a blog but don’t write about your city all the time. Just make sure to include the proper PlanetEye link whenever you do have a post about a location and we’ll link to it.

Tags: bloggers, moleskine, sketch

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