Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 60.

These days, everyone is more connected than ever online, and, well, Royal Caribbean is included, too.

I've invited my good friend Joe Talley to come talk about Royal Caribbean's social media presence

and find out how my favorite cruise line ranks among others in the cruise industry.

We'll look at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other ways.

Royal Caribbean is using social media to connect with cruisers.

Here we go.

Joining me on today's episode is Joe Talley from CruiseHangout.com, and Joe is to that guy I know from Twitter,

who is Mr. Social Cruise, because Joe is big into social media and he's

big into cruising. So it's like the perfect combination. Welcome to Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, Joe.

Thanks, Matt. I'm glad to be here. Absolutely. And I know that we're always, I always see you

discussing with other people, our good friend Scott Sanders, and just in general, what cruise lines are or

aren't doing socially, be on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

There's so much going on these days. And I kind of find it very intriguing as just kind of a student of the art, so to speak.

I like to see what other people are doing. You know, obviously helps me out from my own website.

But I just like observe. I think it's a very interesting niche. What got you into the whole social media thing for you?

Actually, I work in an advertising agency, and so I'm very familiar with a lot of social media

tactics within our social media group at work.

I'm not specifically involved in any of it, but I get in on brainstorming and things

like that.

Plus, I always like to try to keep on, you know, to see what's new in the social media area

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