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What Constitutes “The Best Wine Blog”?

How does someone judge a wine blog? How does one assess what constitutes the “best”, “the most creative” or “the most popular or social” blog? Are there certain criteria I should abide by, tools I should be aware of, or even a base knowledge of should have in order to be a fair and an objective judge? This was the central question we struggled with at 10am yesterday morning as we judged 18 non-commercial Catalan wine blogs in the first ever DO Catalunya Wine Blog Competition. Five judges comprised of two Internet wine marketers, Ryan and I (counting as 1 vote); the President of the Catalan Association of Sommeliers; a freelance programmer from Barcelona; the Director of DO Catalunya; and a gentleman from INCAVI, who casted his vote previous ...

Winery Export Managers – Blogger or Not you NEED to be on Dopplr.com

Dopplr is a tool that all export managers, and winery bloggers should not be without. From there site: Dopplr is an online service for frequent travelers. It lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travelers that you have chosen. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you're planning to visit. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone. Basically you can keep people/customers up to date on where you are and what you are doing. If you then go and build a big enough network you can use this to set up meetings and arrange dinners so that you don't have to eat alone on the road. Best part is you can also embed all this information on your blog or website like this:...

Free Advice – Write for your Audience, not for your Peers

The wine blogg-o-sphere seems sick right now, contaminated with a nasty, dangerous virus and full of evil overtones. There is a self-absorption infection that is destroying that which makes us unique, and quite honestly, it's making me sick. However, I'm curious if it will function like a blog-based form of natural selection, weeding out the weak in favor of the strong. This infection seems to have caused perfectly good wine bloggers to stop talking about wine, and instead, to focus on their own insecurities precieved or real. Lately, we're losing wine bloggers right and left in favor of wine blog critics or MSM (main stream media) bashers. It needs to stop. This BS in the wine blogging world is destroying that which we're fighting for, to be ...

EWBC 2008 a HUGE Success!

Sorry for the lack of posts here. As most of you know the European Wine bloggers Conference has been occupying my time as a of late. But I have good news, we'll be back here more often and with more regularity, ready to take on all the news needed for a wine blogger to succeed. As always this is a open wine blog tool. So if you have advice, or ideas please send us an  with a post idea and we'll be happy to add it here.  For now though please Click over to the EWBC website and watch some videos! Cheers, Ryan Opaz Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

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