Thank you for all of your support for We Said Go Travel and me. VERY SOON I will have two million views on my videos! I appreciate all of your views, comments and likes. Thank you so much!
All of the entries from the 2017 Photo Award are now published. You can view them here. Our 2018 photo award will start NEXT MONTH! Get ready to share your great shots! We will have four judges for the next award.
Lisa Niver doing full body motion capture at AT&T Shape 2018
I went to Warner Brothers to be part of the future with the AT&T Shape Event again this year. I cannot wait for all of these 5G innovations to be widely available.
Lisa Niver at VidCon 2018
At my very first VIDCON (YouTube conference), I learned from the very best in the business. I will be using my new knowledge in future videos. Here is my conference in video: VidCon Conference, VidCon Expo Hall and VidCon Conference.
Lisa Niver with Miss SCUBA International and SCUBA Queen USA
Going to the Scuba Show is a highlight every year for me. It feels a bit like an adult candy store! I want to try every flavor. I cannot wait to get back underwater.
Lisa Niver and Wyland on the NCL BLISS
Sailing with Wyland on the NCL Bliss was a real treat. His commitment to protecting our oceans is really making a difference for our planet. I hope you get involved with his foundation.
I am just back from COUNTRY #100! I cannot wait to tell you all about it and show you the photos and video. YAY!
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here are links to my video channels on YouTube, Amazon Fire Tv, and Roku Player. My views on Roku alone are now over one million! My total video views across all platforms is now over 1,977,357 (1.9Million)! ! Thank you for your support! What should I do to celebrate when I get to 2 MILLION views?
Recent videos from my Adventures Across Canada: to see them all CLICK HERE !
I am now planning and booking travel! Where do you want to wander? Find more information about me and my luxury travel advising as an independent affiliate of CRUISE and RESORT, Inc with Virtuoso Luxury Travel Network on my new microsite!
My fortune cookie said “You will live long and enjoy life.” Wishing you good health and grand adventures!
All of the entries from our first Travel Photo award have now been published. I hope to announce the winners next month. Thank you to everyone who participated and to our judges, Gary Arndt from Everything Everywhere and Jeana from Surf and Sunshine. We hope you will submit a photo in our next award starting in August.
TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS:
Thank you to everyone who has participated in our 13 We Said Go Travel Competitions! Find the winners for all of them here.
The sunny view at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in May 2018
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Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. Niver is a speaker at the Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Dallas Travel and Adventure Shows for 2023. Her podcast, “Make Your Own Map,” has been watched in more than 11 countries on 4 continents. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster.
You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have nearly 2 million views.
With more than 150,000 followers across social media, she has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and listed on IMDb, and is the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Press Club.
As a journalist, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors and been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. She has been a judge for the Gracie Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media, and has run 15 travel competitions on her website, publishing over 2,500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.
For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty times.
Niver has published more than 2000 articles, in more than three dozen magazines and journals
including National Geographic, Wired, Teen Vogue, HuffPost Personal, POPSUGAR, Ms. Magazine, Luxury Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Saturday Evening Post, AARP, AAA Explorer Magazine, American Airways, Delta Sky, enRoute (Air Canada), Hemispheres, Jewish Journal, Myanmar Times, BuzzFeed, Robb Report, Scuba Diver Life, Ski Utah, Trivago, Undomesticated, USA Today, TODAY, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo.
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Awards
National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2021 Winner: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2019 Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV “Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver”
2019 Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
Southern California Journalism Awards
2022 Finalist: Book Criticism
2021 Winner: Technology Reporting
2021 Finalist: Book Criticism
2020 Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”
2020 Finalist: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019 Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment for “Ogden Ski Getaway”
2018 Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017 Winner: Print Column “A Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers”
Social Media Presence
YouTube Channel: We Said Go Travel (1.7 million views)
Short form video:TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts
Twitter: lisaniver (90,000 followers)
Instagram: lisaniver (24,000 followers)
Pinterest: We Said Go Travel (20,000 followers and over 70,000 monthly views)
Facebook: lisa.niver (5,000 followers); We Said Go Travel (3,000 followers)
LinkedIn: lisaellenniver (9000 contacts)
One response to “July 2018 We Said Go Travel News and Happy Summer!”
I loved being nominated for three Press Club awards. The ceremony at the Biltmore included Dolly Parton and Lestor Holt! Wait til you see my video!
Have a nice month of July !