Around the month of March, I received an email from Norwegian Cruise Line giving me the opportunity to be a part of an inaugural cruise in Miami, Florida for the Norwegian EPIC, the most expensive and luxurious cruise ship by NCL. The EPIC is the largest cruise ship ever attempted by Norwegian. That means it will have the most staterooms and luxury suites of any cruise liner ship, in their entire fleet. This is not where this story started. It began many months before, when cruising on the Norwegian SUN.
FourSquare, the social networking location based game has updated its service in Las Vegas, NV to include new checkin badges. Some of these badges are for the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week in Las Vegas, NV. One earns badges by using the service to check into venues they visit on a daily basis. Why is it exciting that FourSquare has done this? Well, up until now, the service has been limited to a certain amount of cities and badges to earn in these cities. With the advent of all of these newer badges to earn, the service might get another boost in two critical ways.
Back in November of 2009, I was chatting with friends, followers and brands over my Twitter account @24k. Then I received a direct message. There is nothing new about that, but fortunately for me, it was from a recent acquaintance at BlogWorld 2009. The persons name is Jeff Pulver and he runs a series of events known at the 140 Characters Conference. Jeff decided to take a chance, as he likes to say over his Twitter account @JeffPulver, and asked me to prepare a few ideas for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, Social Media Jungle 2010 event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Early in October, I learned that my brother Bill @VegasBill on Twitter, was picked from all entries, from all around the world, to be one of the first to officially participate in NASA’s launch of STS-129 Space Shuttle Atlantis Tweetup or by this link http://bit.ly/bIfGDD . A Tweetup is a group of people that use the social networkingsite Twitter to chat about what’s happening. Bill learned of the event via Twitter and decided to take a chance. Space Shuttle Atlantis will be making its way to the International Space Station to deliver needed equipment to finish it, along with a change of staff.
Back in November of 2009, I was chatting with friends, followers and brands over my Twitter account 
Early in October, I learned that my brother Bill @VegasBill on Twitter, was picked from all entries, from all around the world, to be one of the first to officially participate in NASA’s launch of