Been having fun over on my travel blog Tourist Vs Traveller with exposing the messy inner blood and guts of how I put together two Valentine’s Day features on the ‘top 10′ romantic places in the UK and around the world. The main mashup was an experiment using TravMedia for the big callout for suggestions, Google Docs as a collecting funnel and Twitter as a refinement option for feedback from the non-PR world.

It was going to be a short exposé but in the end turned into a five-part series, culminating in the Creative Commons release of all the PR source material, featuring 101 romantic places around the UK and the world.

I think different people will be interested in different links depending on whether you’re a journalism student, a social media or digital journalist, or a reader in lurve, so here they all are:

1. Behind the scenes of a travel feature – pt 1: transparency and the trouble with top tens
2. Behind the scenes of a travel feature – pt 2: the commission
3. Behind the scenes of a travel feature – pt 3: the seven tools of feature research
4. Behind the scenes of a travel feature – pt 4: the results of the Google Docs experiment
5. Behind the scenes of a travel feature – pt 5: 101 romantic places around the world