Our community manager and marketing gal, Alisha (that’s me!) is off to Spain for a two-week traveling vacation where I’ll be living “unplugged.” That means no computer, no phone, and very little internet. Consequently, there will be limited blog posts published until June when I return. In the mean time, get your travel tip fill by staying up to date with our guest posts:

• Photo Essays and Destination Reviews by Career Break Secrets
• Gap Year Travel Column by I Wish Gap Year
• Thrifty Thrills Student Travel Tips by Megan Eaves & Students in Europe

You can follow my tentative travel itinerary throughout Spain here:

I am not the only Sosaucer traveling this summer. Our Co-Founder, Sean, will be traveling to Africa for the World Cup Championships! As a big sports fan or lover of all odd adventures, Sean will be navigating through Cairo with friends then making his way down to South Africa for some first-hand soccer action.

Wish us a safe trip, and try not to miss us too much! Don’t worry though, we will be back in New York City for the annual Travel Bloggers Exchange conference in mid-June. Send us a message on Twitter (@Sosauce) or leave a comment to stay in touch with us!

Catch ya later, Travel Geeks!

The first thing we did was to make the images of destinations and points of interests bigger and more engaging.

Hire Local Guides
Various destinations now feature local tour guides you can hire courtesy of OurExplorer.com:

Bookmarking
We are also introducing a new page in the Guide called Bookmarks! Now when you browse someone’s Trip or the Guide for a destination, POI, review, or tip, you can bookmark it. These bookmarks will show up in your Bookmarks page in the Guide (and in Trip as well). When you go to this page, you can see all the valuable information you’ve collected on Sosauce. This way, when you are planning for your next trip or while traveling, you can dig up these nuggets that you collected and put them to use.

Printouts
Now if you go to someone trip (or your old trip), you can flip through the destinations and print out the valuable information within them.

This way, you can take information, such as points of interest, tips, and reviews, with you on your trip, so they can guide and navigate you through a new place.

Hope you enjoyed this short announcement! Have fun info hunting.



Browse the Sosauce Guide to search, bookmark, and review travel destinations online.

With a growing community comes the need for refreshing content and inspiring travels. Thanks to the positive responses we received with the Sosauce Affiliate Series, we’ve recruited unique travel experts to share their knowledge of photography, gap year travel, student and budget travel, and destination reviews with our readers.

Starting Monday, May 3rd we are introducing travel contributors from representatives at:

I Wish Gap Year

Career Break Secrets

Students in Europe

Sosauce Photo



We look forward to a new season of recreating and sharing travel experiences with you all and hope you enjoy the new posts as well. To get involved at the Sosauce blog, email us for editorial consideration at editorial@sosauce.com.



Become a Sosauce partner to reach over 28,000 Travel Geeks with featured content, advertising, sponsored reviews, and travel blogging opportunities. Get started today!

We are excited to announce that Sosauce is launching new initiatives this month that will further our work in online travel media. This new series of opportunities including travel writing, sponsorship, technology partnerships, concierge service, advertising, and more!

As an affiliate member of the Sosauce community, you will be able to connect with over 28,000 unique Travel Geeks celebrating the saucy side of travel. The program will include (1) technology integration which allows you to use Sosauce’s powerful applications to further your online projects, (2) blog sponsorship for those interested in collaborating with us on the Sosauce blog, (3) featured travel content in our weekly newsletter, (4) a custom travel portfolio with the help of Sosauce’s concierge, and (5) advertising, of course!

Check your inboxes this week as we will be sending out exclusive invites to our friends in the travelsphere about how to get started.



We look forward to working with you all more closely in the future!

For information on partnering and advertising with Sosauce, email us at concierge@sosauce.com. If you are interested in contributing content to Sosauce or sponsoring a blog post, email us at editorial@sosauce.com.

Big announcements are on the way from Sosauce – home of the Travel Geeks! Our community is growing by leaps and bounds and we are excited to be working on some new programs that will enhance our users’ online travel recording experience, introduce new opportunities for greater involvement, as well as build stronger relationships with our friends and affiliates in travel media.

At Sosauce, we pride ourselves in facilitating an authentic community for independent travelers. You’ll find tools to make your travel experiences come to life, a unique online photo print store, and over 28,000 enthusiastic and friendly members eager to share their stories with the world. Though we have an established community platform, we decided to take things to the next level: Sosauce will be launching an official Affiliate Program this spring. The program will include (1) technology integration which allows you to use Sosauce’s powerful applications to further your online projects, (2) blog sponsorship for those interested in collaborating with us on the Sosauce blog, (3) featured content in our weekly newsletter, (4) a custom travel portfolio with the help of Sosauce’s concierge, and (5) advertising, of course!

We are very excited to unveil these new initiatives, so be on the look out for the official announcement in the near future. In the mean time, keep up with all things Sosauce online:

Photo Credit: Duct Tape Marketing

For more information on how to become a Sosauce affiliate member, email us at concierge@sosauce.com.

Build a better travel blog with Travel Blog Success. Join Sosauce in becoming an affiliate of the Travel Blog Success community.

Travel Blog Success is the newest venture by Dave Lee teaching you to build a better travel blog. As long-time supporters of Dave’s travels, we couldn’t be happier to become members of the Travel Blog Success community.

With step-by-step instructions, low sign-up costs, and expert advice, the Travel Blog Success is a guide designed to turn your new media practices into profitable results. Every week new lessons are published relating to key blogging concepts such as content, design, multi-media, SEO, social media, and advertising. Each lesson also includes recommendations on how to create action plans for your own travel blog, plus you can listen in on podcast interviews, join the discussion forums, and read regular updates on the blog to get personal feedback on travel blogging.

To get started on building a better travel blog, visit Travel Blog Success. We encourage you to browse the monthly payment options or consider purchasing a premium membership. While you are there, be sure to learn more about Sosauce and the Travel Blog Success affiliate program.

Sosauce is an affiliate of Travel Blog Success. Join the community for building a better travel blog and click the Sosauce page to learn more about us. We receive a small commission for visiting our site.

You will notice a better, cleaner overall design, with improved navigation and a bigger emphasis on trip documentation. Everything’s bigger so now you can get the full effect of a completed trip. You can also create an outlined travel itinerary, view a fun slide show of your travel photos, and manage your Trip options one step at time so you’re never confused.

With the Sosauce Trip application, we’ve also made it easier to connect and share your travels with other Sosaucers plus you can post your Trip to other social sites like Facebook. We want to make sure the Trip app is just as fun and easy to use when recreating and sharing your travel experiences and has been redesigned as a colorful and prominent feature on Sosauce. Here are some screen shots to the new Sosauce Trip tool:

Journal Entry view

Tips view

Manage, View, & Share Trip view

If you need a refresher on how to use the Sosauce Trip app to document your travels, visit our User Guide.

Have fun!

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KPAM Radio, 50,000-watt radio station in Portland, Oregon, is accepting submissions on travel news and information for their new weekend travel program. If you are interested in sharing your travel knowledge on the air, check out KPAM online and apply to become their Producer. Travel writers, bloggers, and others are welcome to contact them and dish out about destinations, gadgets, experiences, books, and more.

For more information about this opportunity, go here.

Good luck!

Dearest Sosauce blog readers:

We interrupt our daily program to ask for forgiveness as WordPress has been malfunctioning recently. We sincerely apologize for the lack of blog posts, and are taking immediate action to correct the problem, and publish fresh new content as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and hope you continue to enjoy the travel stories written here on the Sosauce blog.

We shall return bigger and better in the next few days!

Thanks muchly,
Team Sosauce

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After taking in feedback from our readers, we have decided to give the Travel Geek blog a face lift. You will notice a better, cleaner overall design, with improved navigation and search options, plus new, engaging content posts. Some other changes implemented include -

Design:

Content:

Usability:

If you are reading this in an RSS feeder, be sure to check out our Sosauce Travel Geek blog at www.sosauce.com/blog. Don’t forget to drop us a line in the comments below with your feedback, too!

We are also now accepting editorial submissions. So if you want to contribute a story that fits with our posts, email us for consideration.

Keep on celebrating the saucy side of travel!