Hostel Colonial Buenos Aires

Hace ya casi 3 años que escribo el blog de Hostel Colonial y casi 2 años que participo activamente y utilizo redes sociales como puntos de contacto, algunos devenidos en amistades en el mundo real y también como parte de una estrategia de marketing viral para el hostel, de la que ya he escrito varios posts.

Aquellos que leen el blog asiduamente o bien los que tienen una suscripción de Feedburner, saben que pueden contactar a Hostel Colonial en Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Orkut, Last.fm, Hi5, Flickr, Picasa y también en Plurk y en Blip.fm , redes de las que voy a contarles algunas cosas en este y en el próximo post.

Lamentablemente ya no estamos en Facebook, pues la cuenta fue deshabilitada por un administrador sin que mediara la posibilidad de un feedback correcto ya que nunca respondieron a mis consultas y así fué como luego de 1 año se perdieron 1118 contactos, 300 fotos del hostel y de Buenos Aires, suscripciones, videos, acciones solidarias, participación en grupos y lo más importante, una red de casi 400 hostels de todo el mundo, bien, para mí Facebook fué mucho trabajo que no ha sido respetado, por eso tampoco merece mi respeto ni la apertura de una nueva cuenta.

Volviendo a las redes que sí utilizo, hace unos meses me suscribí a Plurk y me atrapó, justo en ese tiempo Twitter estaba prácticamente todo el día “over capacity” y si bien muchos contactos eran viejos conocidos, se produjo una gran cantidad de nuevos amigos y una interacción realmente fluída, uno de ellos, Rodolfo Augsburger, @Collide para aquellos que así lo conocen, se vino de Rosario a Buenos Aires, precisamente al evento Día de Weblogs que se realizó en Agosto en la Universidad de Palermo, paseó por la ciudad y se alojó a pesar de su desconocimiento de la dinámica de un hostel, obviamente en Hostel Colonial.

Realmente sigo convencido que las redes sociales o social networks como prefieran, bien utilizadas, son una herramienta increíble, que nos permite y permitirá volver a relacionarnos en la vida cotidiana, dándole un perfil realmente social desde el punto de vista de la construcción de ese entramado, pasando del username y el avatar a los individuos que realmente somos.

Todo esto viene a colación del post que escribió Rodolfo en su blog y que pueden leer aquí y el video que filmó de nuestras intalaciones, creo que estamos haciendo las cosas bien. Gracias.

How you can use a backpacker full-featured Web 2.0?
The ways are several, but they go toward the same goal: Selectivity.
It´s very important to choose the blogs (Hostel Colonial Blog is my blog) that will read to undertake their trip, tested and using various tools and discard those that aren´t useful.
It´s also important that can meet wireless technology and travelling with her, I think they are indispensable: smartphone, laptop, IPod and handhelds, which can achieve.

You think you are a reference for other hostels?
No, I´m only a reference for myself in front of the mirror, if you say that I´m proud and I would become a real idiot, but I´m not going to discuss the thinking of others, if you want to become “The 2.0 Hostel Guru”, it´s ok, and I´m looking for a consultant offices.

What do you think will happen in the coming years?
Share content will no longer be attractive. I believe that the search will for generate content in a participatory manner. In what I mean by this? You have some notes to the bass, I can put the notes of my guitar, but why not us together to make a song? There will be a new interpretation of the concept involution, back to neighborhood, we will have to find in the streets and establish relationships as we did 20 years ago, only thanks to the Internet “Web 2.0 is only involution, but I like it”. Think, definitely going to be that way. I think it’s a thought completely disruptive.

Wow, I like what you say, we are in tune. Thank you men.

What are your last words?
They are not mine, are my wife words: WHAT ARE YOU FUCK DOING?

Today I received an e-mail from a German friend, who visited Hostel Colonial on 2 occasions, with a job done by him in Photoshop with the following inscription “Only a hostel live on the Web 2.0, Hostel Colonial, the only one”.

I liked the assessment and while I think there are other people working on it, in Argentina there are no significant developments in our market and Hostel Colonial has been gradually becoming a small brand 2.0.

But to understand what is Web 2.0, read this note, all our work and participation in social networks, click on each link:

2007. The year in which we consolidate an idea. While this blog was intended as the Hostel Colonial blog, a corporate blog, ended becoming a powerful tool for communication and interaction.
To explain all this, the best way is to quantify and there we go.

2006-2007 Into the Blog:

– 439 Post published in 3 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
– +200 Photos and Videos published.
– 3 Blogger Templates changes.
– New SEO and other tools.
– 0 to 4 in Google Pagerank in 6 months.
– 0 to 61 E-mail suscriptors in 4 months (Feedburner and Feedblitz).
– 252 to 1831 unique visitors in 5 months.
– 0 to 39 in Technorati authority.

2007 10 posts

Tango Fast and Furious
Buenos Aires lives…
Florida Street, a cosmopolitan…
Peatonal Florida, Buenos Aires…
Peatonal Lavalle, Buenos Aires…
Buenos Aires – Washington
Buenos Aires – Street Art
Buenos Aires de parques y plazas
Locomotion in Buenos Aires
China, Perú and Bolivia in Buenos Aires

2006 – 2007 Out of the Blog.

– +1000 Contacts in social networks, in which it has achieved a significant level of relevancy.
Twitter
Twitterposter
Pownce Hostel Colonial
Hostel Colonial, Buenos Aires life in Facebook
Jaiku Hostel Colonial
Hostel Colonial en Turismo 2.0

– + 400 Active E-mail Accounts, this regularly receive the Hostel newsletter.
– Google.com Search:
Hostel Buenos Aires: 4º.
Hostel Colonial: 1º, 2º, 3º, 5º, 6º and more.
Hostel Blog: 5º, 7º.
Hostel Argentina 27º.

– Traditional media reports.
– Events in Argentina.
– Exhibitions in Buenos Aires Universities.

– Posts in other networks and aggregators.
Hostel Colonial in Travel in Blogs
Hostel Colonial en ViajeRed: Viajesudamerica

The 2007 Hostel Colonial Blog Hits
Blogger´s Choice Awards

Hostel Colonial 2007 Winner – Best Travel Blog in Blogger´s Choice Awards

Blogger´s Choice Awards Winners List

T – List

Hostel Colonial in Happy Hotelier T- List

Ultrafashion T-Shirts

Curriculo Lito Vitae

This blog was created using local humor, which was used as a platform to create a marketing campaign “0” cost with excellent results and that today has taken its own way, with faithful followers and we could call it Hostel Colonial B-Side.

The challenge for 2008 will work, work and more work, looking interrelate web and blog based on Hostel Colonial as tourist services company whose business purpose is the lodging sale and capitalize on the work done in social networks, to realize a participatory blog . We have a year to achieve. Walk this way, Hostel Colonial Blog is definitely Web 2.0.

Happy New Year.

Los viajes son signos de los tiempos, del momento que nos toca vivir y de las edades que tenemos cuando emprendemos cada periplo.

Por ello es que existe este blog, que ha logrado trascender a la web oficial de Hostel Colonial, por ello es que uso herramientas que me han permitido formar parte con cierta relevancia en redes sociales como Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, Pownce, Turismo 2.0 y me gusta hacerlo.

Creo casi con seguridad que no hay en la Argentina una empresa de estas características (Hoteles 1-2-3-4-5 estrellas, B&B, Hoteles Boutique, Hostels) que lo haga con tanta vehemencia.

Será quizás porque aún no han advertido el potencial o porque las inmediateces con que necesitan cuantificarse los resultados invitan a invertir dinero y no tiempo, por todo eso me permito decir que Hostel Colonial y Web 2.0, como un viaje, son también signos de este tiempo.

It´s very easy to contact and make your reserve in Hostel Colonial. In the real world this hostel is located in 509 Tucumán St. (1 block to Florida pedestrian street) – 1st Floor – Nuevo Bajo – Buenos Aires – Argentina – South América. Where the devil lost his wig and came to get Botox.

In the virtual world you can find all these url´s, contact mail and phones.

Web Page: Hostel Colonial All about backpacking trip in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Blog: Hostel Buenos Aires – Hostel Colonial – Buenos Aires Famous Hostel: All about Buenos Aires, Argentina, tips for your cheap travel, interaction, feed back, gadgets and more in the Best Travel Blog 2.0.

Hostel Colonial already have their place in Facebook

For those who wish to join our user is: HostelColonialBuenosAires

Links to Hostel Colonial photo albums in Facebook