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Latest changes to lonelyplanet.com

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

Hi, my name is Katie and I am the Global Website Manager at Lonely Planet. You can read a bit more about me and what I do on my Lonely Planet Profile.
You may not know that we release improvements to our website every 2 weeks, and I would like to share these changes with you…

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BlogSherpa now open

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Well there you go, BlogSherpa has been live in beta for a little over two months. In that time we’ve been manually crunching blogs into the back-end.
The good news is that the arduous back-end system that allowed us to add blogs has been replaced by a new automated sign-up that runs from the new and…

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The 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards – Winners

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Congratulations to all of the winners in the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards. The evening was a blast, we had a lot of fun and some excellent blogs won-out to take home some rather groovy prizes.
Well done to everyone that got nominated, I, and I know the judges have had a wonderful time reading,…

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Prizes for the LP Travel Blogger Awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

We’ve been very quiet about the prizes for the Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards – for a very simple reason. We wanted people to enter and vote because they were entering really good blogs, not to win a prize.
But of course, we haz prizes.
Each category winner will take home (prepare showbiz style music backing):

$40 Blurb…

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Awards – Public Voting Closed – Results

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Well what a few weeks! We’ve seen tweets in numbers I stopped counting, facebook campaigns that would leave many advertising managers blushing and for the most part, very friendly competition.
So without further ado, here are the points for the public voting section of the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blogging Awards – remember these points only…

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How we’re working out the votes for the awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

I thought it may be prudent to explain exactly how voting is going to work for the LP Travel Blogger Awards – we think this is the fairest method that tries to stomp on any mass automatic voting that may happen. This is not a popularity contest. We will make every effort to remove fraudulent…

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Voting open for the 2009 Travel Blogger Awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

The results are in, we’ve run the figures and we present the top five nominated blogs in each category.
You can vote for one blog in each category. Please do only vote once – we’re sure there are ways you can get around the tech, but please, do only vote once. We reserve the right to…

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2009 Travel Blogger Awards – UPDATE

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Things are moving a-pace in the world of Travel Blogger Awards – for a start we have a smart new logo – which is nice – we also have some smart badges for the nominated blogs.
Nominations closed on Wednesday 18th at midday Melbourne (AUS) time. We’ll now work out the top five nominated blogs for…

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BlogSherpa – Destination list out, travellers in

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

BlogSherpa is launching in beta as many of you know – and we wanted to remain as flexible as we could whilst we worked out the best way to do this – for us and you.
One of the biggest bits of feedback we’ve had so far is that the destination list we wanted to use…

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BlogSherpa Sign-up

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

We’re now formally accepting applications for the beta launch of BlogSherpa – you’ll have seen the destination list on the blog earlier this week and we’ve gone out and have started to garner suggestions for great bloggers in that destination – or writing about that destination.
We have 75 spots for the beta launch of BlogSherpa,…

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