Due to an outbreak of Human Swine Influenza in Mexico City, Air Canada is providing the following information for customers with plans to travel to/from the area. For customers with reservations for travel to/from Mexico City up to April 30, Air Canada is waiving change fees in order to facilitate changes to travel plans and allow for travel at a later date.

Customers may rebook their travel without penalty, through Air Canada Reservations at 1-888-247-2262; TTY hearing impaired: 1-800-361-8071, or through their travel agent. Air Canada continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide further travel updates as developments occur. (Source: TravelCourier.travel)


For further information on Swine Influenza or any other travel emergencies, visit www.SOS.travel

As a fellow blogger I have become rather versed in the ways of social media. The Internet community has become so vast and grown so strong, that a set of rules seems to have been established to promote this "cohesive social living." The times clearly are a' changing when the traditions of hand written thank you letters and curtsying are being replaced with tweet backs and hoops & yoyo e-cards. Here are just a few basic ground rules for being well received on some of today's most popular social media outlets:

If you blog it they will come: If you're blogging about someones site or product be sure to link back to them. Not only does it make your blog heavier, but it will increase traffic to both sites. If you read a blog that you like, be sure to pass it along. Linking a blog to StumbleUpon, Google Reader, or Friendfeed are good places to start. Also, if you read a great post and want to comment try to say something more than "nice job!" Bloggers always appreciate it when comments provide constructive feedback.

Do not use Facebook to "over promote": There is nothing more annoying than having a Facebook inbox that is constantly flooded with invites to the same type of party, at the same club, by the same promoter day in and day out. If you start up a Facebook group for promotional purposes, do not bombard your members with constant messaging. Try to keep most of that stuff on the group wall or message board. And be sure to use good judgement when tagging your friends in pictures, incriminating or otherwise unpleasant photos should be kept private.

Follows is as follows does: The Internet community has gone afire with twitter, the social site built for microblogging and keeping in instant contact with your friends and followers. While you do not have to follow everyone that follows you, if one of your followers is in a similar industry it is typically common courtesy to follow them back. And while its fine to use twitter as a marketing tool, its nice to promote others from time to time just to change things up a bit.

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10 Easy Ways to Get Top Search Engine Optimization Rankings

In today's internet world, it is imperative to have a website for your business. How do you get on the web?

The first step is to purchase a domain name (the website address) from a registrar such as Moniker or Go Daddy. A registrar is an authorized reseller of domain names from a registry. Your domain name needs to communicate to others what you are selling or offering. Since there are so many websites on the Internet, you need to stick out. A .travel domain is a great way of doing this if you are in the travel or tourism industry. Unlike .com, there are still many great .travel names available that will be able to convey the message of your business clear and concisely.

Next, your website needs content. This is the text, pictures, banners, and so on that will appear on the site. The next thing you need is a design layout. Once your site is set up you will also need marketing in order to get visitors!

Finally, your site will need web hosting. This includes somewhere for your site's data to be stored and a way for it to be accessed (transferred from this location to your site visitors' computers). These two things are called storage and bandwidth. So that is why a website host (or web hosting company) is needed. You cannot simply store your site on your own computer, unless you have a dedicated web server (this is a special computer with a super high speed internet connection). This would cost you thousands upon thousands of dollars to purchase and maintain. Spending all that money on hosting your site yourself is impractical. Thus, you need a web hosting company to take care of this for you. (WebHostDirectory)

With a number of webhosting companies on the internet, it is sometimes hard to find the one that offers true cheap and quality webhosting. Before, you began to search for companies that offer cheap webhosting, it is important to know what exactly you are looking for. This includes your site features, internet programming languages, database connectivity features, email addresses, domain name, traffic you expect and many other considerations. (MyContentBuilder)

April Fools Day was yesterday and many jokes ensued on the internet. Call me gullible, but I fell for most of them.

The first one that I caught was that the social media tool Twitter was applying for the top level domain (TLD) ".tweet"