Thursday, June 11, 2009

Earth.org


Earth.org wins an award (according to me) for the best up and coming travel website.
Earth.org is a collaboratively written travel guide with a non-profit approach. Earth.org is written by people just like me and you from all over the world. They have taken the basic idea behind wikipedia and turned it into what could very possibly become the best travel guide on the web.

I love that Earth.org is non-profit, so many travel guides these days stink. How can a guide truly be telling me the best places to eat when the restaurants pay to be included in their guidebook? That smells fishy, same goes for most travel shows these days too. From what I have read and heard I don't think we need to worry about Earth.org selling out any time soon.

Everyone has information they contribute to a project like this, even if you don't regularly travel you have information about the town you live in that people visiting would love to have, so take a few minutes to share those insider tidbits of information with the traveling world at Earth.org. I plan to share tons of info about New Orleans and maybe even Fort Myers, Florida since I lived there for 25 years. If you know the best place to shop for bath products or the only place in your city to get real Chinese food or anything else you would like to share then go to Earth.org and share your knowledge with travelers all over the world.

2 comments:

Black Women in Europe said...

Cool! Do you contribute to Earth.org? I am on the Earth.org team and we really appreciate you kind words.

Rayna said...

I have just started figuring out how to post to Earth.org and working on things to add. I think it is a great idea.