Trisha Miller
Publisher & Managing Editor, TravelWritersExchange.com

Trisha joined the Travel Industry in 1996 with a background in telecommunications and helped to build (and later sell) one of the industry's top inbound call centers specializing in air travel.

Her career in Travel Writing began with creating destination-specific content for a corporate travel intranet, and continued as she contributed content to a large number of travel-related companies that were establishing an online presence throughout the late '90's and early '00's.

Currently she is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a board member of the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association.  Still a frequent world traveler, and occasional guest-blogger on a number of other Travel Blogs, Trisha writes about travel and technology, sometimes both at the same time.

You can follow Trisha on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/TravelWriting

Today’s Post is a re-print from professional travel photographer David Smith.
David has generously given us permission to publish an article that was originally featured on his own blog, Interface Images, titled “Cool Photographer Tip: David’s Smile Circle Group“.
Since most travel writers and bloggers these days are also serving double-duty as travel photographers, many of us [...]

Today’s Post is a re-print of a terrific article I found that I believe every travel blogger should read.
The author, Lisa Gerber of Big Leap Creative, graciously agreed to let me re-publish her wonderful advice to bloggers, which was inspired by her trip to TBEX10 last month.
So without further ado, here is Lisa’s article – [...]

Welcome to another installment of Ask The Editor!
This month our topic focuses on newsletters.
Q. I know I should have a signup form for a newsletter, but I really don’t know where to begin. How do I start a newsletter?
A. This can be intimidating for any blogger, but it’s very important to include [...]

Here’s a way to turn your knowledge into cash..woo hoo!
To celebrate the launch of their new user submission service, How To Books (www.howto.co.uk), is running a contest through July 2010 for the best “how to” article submitted to their site, for which the winner will receive £200 (that’s roughly $300 USD), and that’s on top [...]

 
Most of you reading this know that TBEX10 was held this past weekend, in New York City.
Some of you also know that I was there, because we finally got to meet in person (yaay!).
No doubt you’ll be reading many “wrap-up” posts from any of the several hundred bloggers who also attended, as well as view [...]

One of the things that keeps me busiest is answering the many emails I receive.
Although I encourage travel writers to use our Forum, where we have some great writers, bloggers, and tech-geeks, in order to get a wider variety of answers than just mine.
However, I know that some folks are a bit hesitant to [...]

It’s a fact.
Writers must be good at self-editing to really succeed in print these days.
Many print publications – as well as some online news/magazine websites and large e-zines – have downsized their editing staff, and yet still want to maintain their high standard of editorial quality.
Thus, when faced with the choice of accepting submissions [...]

Welcome to the first Travel Blog Review in our “Under the Microscope” series!
This past week our Travel Writers’ Forum members reviewed Tourfolio.com, a travel blog founded by Bryan Cassidy.
The goal of this series of travel blog reviews – handled entirely through our Forum – is to help travel bloggers discover what visitors like, or don’t [...]

I’d like to introduce a new concept that will become a monthly feature here at Travel Writers Exchange
This new feature will be called “Under The Microscope”, and will be an in-depth travel blog review.
Each month we’ll take a look at one travel blog (volunteered by the blog owner, of course) and review it with the [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The links below are now going to a DIFFERENT (but still good) video – the prior program of free videos has NOW CLOSED. You can still watch the new video (it’s about an hour) to get some good information without any obligation to sign up for his course.
Every day I get [...]

As writers we are all very aware of what goes on in the publishing industry.
So no doubt you’ve seen or heard of the large and ubiquitous national ad campaign, announced in April by a joint venture between five giants of the publishing industry (Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Meredith Corporation, Time Inc., and Wenner Media) titled [...]

It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing the latest buzz words, “Personal Branding”
Seriously, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t mentioned in at least one – if not more – of the freelance writing newsletters you subscribe to.
In my email this week I learned that MediaBistro has an online course titled “Brand [...]

I chose this book for very personal reasons.
I’ve been so busy in recent years that I’d pretty much given up my journaling.
I haven’t written anything that I felt was meaningful in a long time.
Oh sure, I keep trip notes, pickup brochures and literature, and take photos when I travel, but I’ve allowed tight [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve indulged myself with a good rant.
But this one has been building steam.
It seems like lately I’ve been seeing certain mistakes being made by travel writers and bloggers that are clearly negatively impacting them, but they don’t realize it.
Some make me want to reach through my monitor and grab [...]

 
HERE YOU GO… YOUR BLOG HOP TRAVEL CONTEST PLAY CARDS!

Click here to download the play card for this week, April 19th to 25th.
Click here to get your play card for future weeks.

 
PLAYING THE BLOG HOP?
You’ll find the answer to the question for my blog by clicking on the correct post below.

How to [...]