Keep in touch

Chapter 4 encourages the travel journalist to learn cheap, simple, multimedia tools to help cover stories in a home market or on the road. Travel Writers Exchange’s Martina Vyskocova delivers an additional tool in 5 tips on Keeping in Touch With Your Audience While Traveling. Check out one of her tips:

Automatize, it’s the 21st Century!
So, you’ve picked 2 or 3 social media platforms and now wonder how on earth will you manage to keep in touch will all the followers while traveling? There are several tools to make a writer’s life easier.

• TweetAdder is an automated Twitter management system that thanks people who RT you, auto-responds and brings you more followers. It saves lot of time, so it’s really worth it.
• HootSuite is another great tool to manage your social media accounts. You can add 5 accounts for free and schedule Facebook statuses or Tweets, analyze your traffic or track mentions of you.
• MailChimp is one of the most popular newsletter services with pretty templates and option for scheduling. Make a custom template first and then it’s just a matter of few clicks to add posts and schedule it on date when you are gone.
• If you use Gmail, Boomerang is great tool for automatizing your email – scheduling messages and sending you back unanswered emails.