ArrivedOK is now working with LinkedIn, which is going to make both ArrivedOK and LinkedIn more powerful for you.

When you set your arrival alerts on ArrivedOK you can now make them appear in your LinkedIn status immediately after landing, letting your colleagues and business contacts know where you are in real time – without using your mobile or smartphone onboard. You can also customize your message to your LinkedIn connections, making it different from arrival alerts delivered to your friends, family, or posted to your personal blog.

Let the places you travel contribute to your professional identity on the web. Work, business or leisure, your trips bring important information about who you are, what you do, and how you do it. Show your followers that you’re a smart traveler.

How does ArrivedOK work with LinkedIn?

When you want to share your arrival details with a broader audience via LinkedIn (posting to Facebook, blogs and Twitter is also available) – go to your ArrivedOK Preferences and connect LinkedIn to your Profile.

When creating your arrival message, go to ‘Post to blog/network’ section, check ‘LinkedIn’ box and type your message if you want. That message will appear in your LinkedIn status right at the moment you turn on your phone upon your arrival, altogether following our standard ‘I arrivedOK in…’ text.

So go ahead and get started. Link your ArrivedOK and LinkedIn accounts today.

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As probably many people out there, we at ArrivedOK are waiting for the premiere of Up in the Air -- a movie about “an emotionally disconnected air traveler’s pursuit of 1 million frequent flier miles”, as someone put it.

Release date: 25 February 2010 (Russia).

There’s another funny trailer here at YouTube, where the characters are sitting at an airport lounge, tossing their frequent flyer cards and asking intimate questions about each other’s air miles balance. Very romantic :)

Ryan Bingham/George Clooney: How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living…

“My last travel consisted of 6 flights (the guy was flying from Russia to Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta, and all the way back. Click a city name to see how ArrivedOK auto-updates his Twitter status – Editor). Entering all of them into ArrivedOK manually might take time. Fortunately ArrivedOK is integrated with TripIt, so all I needed to do was just forwarding all my booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to TripIt and then importing those records to ArrivedOK. Follow these steps to do it:

1. You should have a registration with TripIt.com. If you don’t, go to their website and sign-up.
2. Forward all your booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to plans@tripit.com
3. Assuming you have an ArrivedOK account, sign-in to ArrivedOK and select New Record. You will see “Import from Tripit” link.
4. Click it and ArrivedOK will import all your new flights and will offer you to edit them. At that stage you can specify your cell phone to track and notifications for all of your flights. Or you can do this later.
5. Don’t forget to make the newly imported records ‘Active’ by clicking the button in the Records Menu.

Now you are ready to fly. Happy landings!”

• “Can I import trips from TripIt so I don’t have to fill everything in?”
• “Linking to tripit.com – that would be really magic.”
• “I use www.tripit.com for all my travels. Please use their RSS feed to create records for me.”

These are quotes from our beta-testers’ emails.

Following these requests we want to announce that ArrivedOK has just integrated with TripIt and made the import of flight records stored in TripIt available to its users. You can find that option at ‘Create event‘ page. It is really a one-click feature. Please check it out and let us know what you think about it.

About TripIt

A report by Amadeus and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) has found that mobile technology is set to transform the entire travel experience for business travelers by improving access to information and services to ease their trip and by enabling corporate travel managers to increase travel policy compliance. The “Upwardly Mobile” whitepaper, unveiled at the ACTE Global Education Conference in Washington, saw 72 corporate travel managers from across the globe surveyed on their views of how mobile technology is impacting business travel. In addition, more than 30 interviews with both corporate travel managers and technology experts were conducted. The findings show that mobile technology will revolutionize business travel, allowing travelers to book and amend flights, make hotel reservations, as well as to complete expense forms while on the road, and in doing so, increase their flexibility, welfare and productivity. Mobile travel technology can also provide travelers with other time saving features, such as flight check-in, virtual room “keys,” as well as electronic boarding passes sent directly to their mobile devices. As a result, employees will need to spend less time on travel-related tasks in the office, instead performing them while traveling. Implemented across the entire business, these functions will deliver substantial cost savings for companies through increased productivity and efficiency.

For details, visit www.amadeus.com/corporations/GoingMobileWP. 
Source: modernagent.com