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Thorn Tree and beyond: networking travellers

venessap Lonely Planet author

What next for LP community?

I’m the Community Manager for Lonely Planet’s diverse and ever-evolving online community (communitIES, really) – a vibrant, challenging, tendrillar creature! This is the first of many posts about what goes on in our community, designed to give you insights about the way we manage our traveller interactions and let you know about stuff in the works.

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Website technology success part 2: the process

Nigel Dalton Lonely Planet author

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It is the fantasy of every business sponsor that IT projects might one-day behave more like their buttoned-down legal or sales projects. They go so predictably!

Spend days (or months) up-front ritually drafting and negotiating a detailed contract that covers every possible role, responsibility and remedy for a failed outcome.
Produce a 3cm thick document focused on…

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