GoAbroad.net - The Network for Travelers

GoAbroad is a site with a whole slew of different features for travelers. They have the basic travel site features of your own blog that you can upload travel pictures to and allow your friends and family to keep updated with from RSS, as well as other features not found on most backpacker kinds of sites. They want to provide you with the most opportunities they can help you to find to make your trip more of an experience. Because of that, there are groups you can join based on various organizations that sponsor them and provide opportunities to travelers. There’s even a space to post your resume so that if there’s a job or internship opportunity for someone traveling to a specific region for a certain amount of time, they can access you. So if you’re looking for a program to do or a job to fund your travels, this site can help you out, which I think is more important than the ability to blog as you can do on many other sites.

“GoAbroad Network is the newest social networking site for travelers. This site is dedicated to travelers worldwide - if you love travel, this is the site for you! GoAbroad Network is the ultimate postcard! Friends and family can follow your every adventure through your journals, travel photo galleries, and interactive maps. Your friends can sign up for RSS feeds and read your journals and blogs every time you post. Meet and make friends with other travelers on the site: you can post messages for each other and form groups with those who share your interests. You also have your own space for inquiries, where you can search for programs for your travels abroad. You can bookmark interesting programs for future reference on your very own online scrapbook. Plus, you can post your resume and we will make it available to our large database of clients who might give you valuable opportunities abroad!”

They offer different features not found on other travel blogging and community sites. Because they have this other aspect to their site, they have the ability to make money from the various clients that want to advertise with them.

The ability to add photos in a more appealing way or to store albums of pictures would make this site a lot better in terms of their travel journals. Will the journals continue to gain features? How will they compete with the so many other travel networking sites out there for people to join? How will they convince them to change over to their network?