BTSocial has entered the ATKA Web Studio's #freeUX competition for $13,700 in free UI/UX design. Do us a favor and vote for BTSocial at freeux.weareakta.com.

All you need to do is login with Twitter and click our name. Feel free to vote for up to 4 more awesome Chicago start-ups. We recommend our friends at SpotHero and CitySwarm.

Spread the word about the vote to help BTSocial win!

Perhaps a pat on the back is in order? Or at the minimum a cheers of our coffee mugs. You have read correctly; BTSocial has reached the milestone of 250 articles since the re-brand our site back in February 2011. Exciting!

Read our 250th article: Get 'EVEN' with your hotel

Well, what do they say? Our latest video will tell you, that's for sure. We decided to jump on the band wagon of "Sh*t people say" videos and make one that suited our demographic. And, as we started brainstorming, we realized that business travelers probably have more sh*t to say than any other group of people.

So some cool news... BTSocial took part in our first ever charity event last night, TopSpin Chicago. We partnered with the organization by posting up a nice little promo article for them to attract our business traveler demographic to their event. We ran the article on Nov. 3 (read it here) and they posted the link all over their social media getting us some awesome traffic spikes. We even got to have our logo on the sponsorship wall which was pretty cool.

We are pleased to announce that BTSocial has appointed Karl Jackson as CTO of the company. Karl has been an advisor to BTSocial since launch and has migrated over to assume the roles of running all tech operations of the company.

As an avid business traveler, Karl knows the aches and pains travelers feel and truly believes in our mission to better the travel experience. Karl also has an amazing technology background having graduated from the University of Illinois in computer science and having worked for tech companies like comScore.

We had the pleasure once again of attending the GBTA conference, this time from Denver, covering the great educational sessions and exposition. We wanted to thank GBTA for giving us press access to the 4-day conference and offer our round of applause.

THANKS GBTA!

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Hello business travelers! We wanted to introduce you to the new BTSocial website where you will find all the same, great business travel information newly organized and easier to digest. We have been working diligently since this past December with our most excellent development team, Acapella Media on building this new site.  You will find new features that make business travel information easy to access, but we are even more excited to be releasing new applications including our much anticipated social network myBTSocial.