Facebook Workshop Added to Online Revealed Tourism Marketing Conference Agenda

TORONTO, ON --Online Revealed, Canada's premier tourism online marketing conference being held March 8-9, 2011 in Toronto, has introduced a new workshop to the agenda titled "Friends Influencing Friends". Presented by Alfredo Tan, the Senior Director at Facebook, the workshop will focus on strategies and techniques to learn and succeed on Facebook and share some best practices from Canadian businesses currently leveraging Facebook through features like Facebook Pages and Facebook Ads.

Alfredo Tan is the Senior Director at Facebook, where he leads a team responsible for strategic marketing relationships with agencies and Fortune 500 companies across Canada. Prior to Facebook, Alfredo was responsible for a broad portfolio as a Senior Director at Yahoo! in charge of leading the Mobile, Business Development and Search Marketing teams. He also managed the Rogers Yahoo! Partnership across media, internet, and wireless. Alfredo has also worked as a Strategic Alliances Director at Sympatico MSN and was responsible for media sales, business development and strategic partnerships.

Over 300 have already registered for the internet marketing conference which features 21 workshops, 2 keynote addresses, including one from Google's head of consumer marketing, and 2 networking receptions. All registrants of ORC also have access to the first ever Canadian Tourism Marketing Summit March 8 also at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, offering even more session options for those attending the tourism marketing event. Topics to be covered include SEO for marketing, how social media will change your business, social media monitoring, mobile 101, word press camp blog building, reputation management and launching a global website. Also featured are the Canadian e-Tourism Awards to be presented at a lunch March 9, sponsored by Google.

"We are thrilled to have Alfredo Tan of Facebook presenting a workshop," says Patricia Brusha, Co-Founder of Online Revealed and A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing who present the online marketing strategy conference. "Travel and tourism industry professionals
are actively seeking advise on strategies on how to leverage Facebook to achieve their goals and Alfredo's expertise will fill that very tall order."

At last year's online marketing conference Patricia Brusha connected with Jeremy Gutsche of TrendHunter to discuss trends for the upcoming year. Learn his thoughts as 2011 unfolds as yet another year of significant changes in the world of internet marketing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQpOXKow-eY. Gutsche's predictions of experimenting with new products from trusted brands appear to be on track with industry leaders such as Google, Apple and Facebook leading the charge.

Registration remains open for the tourism online marketing conference designed for destination marketing organizations, hoteliers, online travel marketers, attractions and tourism sales and marketing professionals. Major sponsors of the tourism marketing event are Travelzoo, Travelalerts, IHG, Ecolab, Expedia and the Toronto Star. Some sponsorship opportunities are still available by contacting Vicki Welstead at [email protected]

About Online Revealed:

The Online Revealed tourism marketing conference provides travel and tourism professionals with unique and innovative online marketing education, with an agenda that includes educational workshops, keynotes and panel discussions, all driven by the industry for the industry. The event is produced by leading online marketing firm, A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing, www.acoupleofchicks.com in association with Big Picture Conferences. Online Revealed Canada is an annual Canadian conference with a mission to educate the tourism industry to be successful on the World Wide Web. Visit www.onlinerevealed.com for more information.