Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Yelp your way to an excellent adventure

Hello PNC/MLA members, friends, and soon-to-be friends!

Over the next six weeks or so, Lisa Oberg and I will be posting a series of messages about fun things to do while you’re here in Seattle for our annual meeting. What's that you say? You're not registered for the annual meeting yet? You can take care of that right away by looking at the official meeting website and filling out the online registration form.

Today, I'd like to introduce you to our event page on the social networking site Yelp. Yelp is a popular site for finding reviews of restaurants, parks, shopping venues, hotels, theaters, salons, you name it… in cities and neighborhoods across the country. Using Yelp is a good way move beyond the more touristy sites and see what’s popular with the locals.

Here's a quick 4-minute screencast I made using ScreenToaster to show you some of Yelp's nifty features. Click the button in the lower right corner of the player for fullscreen mode.



We'll be back next week with more suggestions for having fun in our fair city.

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