December 5, 2009, BATW Event: Our Holiday Party at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco 11 a.m. Members Only — No Guests (sorry) (Details  are in the email you have already received.) Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco The brand new Walt Disney Family Museum...

Coming up: BATW 2010 Board of Directors Nominations and Membership Renewals. Over 65 BATW members enjoyed an excellent Associates meeting, our second event of this kind, on October 17. Terrific camaraderie, invaluable sharing of ideas and suggestions, as well as elegance and a delicious luncheon at the...

Upcoming elections: Elections for the BATW Board of Directors will take place in December this year and will occur on line. The Board is now requesting expression of interest from Active Members who are willing to serve on the Board. Please send your expression of interest to Diane LeBow at diane@dianelebow.com...

If you see a word in teal font with a dotted underline, that means it’s a link to another website or a link for sending email.  Click on those words to check out additional information, which should open in a new window on your computer screen. – April Orcutt BATW Website Editor Bay Area...

Emma Krasov files this report on the highly successful Oct. 17 BATW meeting, which featured a number of our associate members: a lively trade show at the BATW associates meeting at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in October, 2009 (photos by Yuri Krasov) “Evolve to Survive: Notes on BATW meeting...

Alas, dear BATW members, copyright laws and ethics will not let us post this humorous essay here, but, if you are thinking about or are doing any marketing through the internet or social networking, you MUST click on this link and read “Subject: Our Marketing Plan” by Ellis Weiner from the “Shouts...

Examiner.com bills itself as the “insider source for everything local.”  It reflects the new trend of citizen journalism with more than 8,000 writers (“Examiners”) in more than 110 U.S. markets.  They have nearly 18 million unique visitors per month. Travel is a popular category.

The California Travel & Tourism Commission Media Reception at the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco in September turned out to be both fun and informative.  But it was also like a family reunion with so many BATW members attending, including Bill Fink, Donna Peck, Bob Cooper, Jacqueline Harmon-Butler,...

Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada by David Page Excellent news from David Page, who says his Yosemite & The Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide (Countryman Press) was given a bronze award in the guidebook category of the Society of American Travel Writers‘ 2009 Lowell Thomas Awards.

Congratulations to Joan Aragone, whose informative story “Making Life ‘Livable’ for 36 Million People” (which should be of interest to all of us in California) ran in the September AARP Bulletin, both print and online editions.