WBC Scholarships Are Here
The wine community has stepped up and assembled a program for bloggers to join the 2nd annual Wine Bloggers Conference in the USA this July with a fund to support bloggers who couldn’t otherwise get...
View ArticleDirtyGoode: California Wine Labs Experiment
Because he can. Because he does. And because he has mad Web 2.0, Social Media and interpersonal skills: Vote For the DirtySouthWine Looking forward to this wine meets social media in practice...
View ArticleThe 1Wine Dude Said It.
The VinTank report is certainly a chunk to sink your teeth into. Still, my current mission is how to apply all these skills and passions for social media (we know it works) to the bottom line in...
View ArticleBloggers Planting Forum
An extraordinary Saturday in May in the Santa Lucia Highlands last weekend yielded one delicious afternoon. With a dozen or so wine and food bloggers, Hahn Estates was the first winery to establish...
View ArticleA Summer of Social Media in Wine
Giant strides are very exciting. In our industry, a slow, seasonally affected, growing, pressing and aging pace sometimes takes over and causes our progress to lag a bit behind faster moving...
View ArticleAlabama ABC Bullies Wine Biz
This week while we discuss and discover new technologies in wine marketing this weekend in Wine Country, California during the Wine Bloggers Conference 2009, in Alabama the Beverage Control Board has...
View ArticleAutomated Love? Connect Overload!
Now that social media in wine and hospitality seems mainstream, facebook fan pages are de rigeur, and the twitter, flickr, fb, digg, etc. logos are plastered everywhere, there’s something significant...
View ArticleAppreciation, Wine Bloggers: New Media
A giant thank you to my esteemed colleagues, wine lover bloggers and interested spectators who have watched with interest, fanned up with passion or snickered with disbelief about the “Banned in...
View ArticleSales & Marketing, like Mars & Venus
Basically inseparable, sales & marketing most often seem to completely misunderstand each other. Marketing, loaded with creative talent, big thinkers and sometimes a budget to back that up,...
View ArticleThe Air We Breathe: Polite or Polluted?
This is my personal pet peeve: Rudeness. Much of the time it is a mindless, stressed, rushed person that pollutes the air at work, either omitting the basic manners we’re taught as children or steam...
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