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Wine Doctrine or Wine Education: How Wine Bloggers Can Encourage Healthy Drinking Habits

"The WINE in MODERATION Programme is an initiative of the European wine sector aimed at promoting moderation and responsibility in wine consumption and contributing towards preventing excessive consumption and misuse of alcoholic beverages in Europe." This international program, still young in its inception, was created to not only help preserve and promote the culture of wine, but also, help discourage abuse of alcohol. As wine bloggers have become one of the main channels for wine education, we felt it was important to help promote dialogue as to whether you would like to support the program. Below are questions we posed to George Sandeman, one of the major spokesmen for the Wine in Moderation program, as to why bloggers should be interested in the WIM program. If you have any questions for George, please don't hesitate to place them in the comments. If you are interested ...

Actively Seeking International Winebloggers to Contribute to Palate Press, An Online Wine Magazine

palate2David Honig began his blogging career in politics and political cartoons. After suffering through eight years of the Bush Administration, he decided it was time to relax with a nice glass of wine. 2 Days per Bottle, his first wine blog, explores wines over two days to get an idea of its cellar life and drinking window. Soon he started to notice variations in wine scores, particularly in the cluster around one particular score, and the group blog The 89 Project was born. As he got more involved with the wine blogging world David noticed that there was a tremendous amount of knowledge and talent, but it was spread so thinly across the internet that terrific content often disappeared before anybody noticed it. ...

Tool For Wine Bloggers: An Interview with Chris Golda, Co-Founder of Backtype

Recently, we were asked to provide more information on a blogging tool called Backtype. Backtype is a conversational search engine that indexes and connects conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media, whereby allowing us to find, follow and share comments. In that same article, we also received a very considerate invitation from the co-founder of Backtype, Chris Golda, to provide a detailed explanation of this incredible powerful tool. Clearly, we couldn't say no to such a juicy offer. What initiated the creation of Backtype? Initially, we wanted to create BackType so we could see what blogs people were reading and commenting on. Now we have much greater ambition for BackType, and we're working on many new products and services. How can a wine blogger effectively use Backtype? We offer a collection of widgets and plugins related to comments that bloggers may be ...

Wine Blogger Wiki: A Bit of a Change

When we first started the Wine Bloggers Resources wiki, we wanted to provide good, solid information that wine bloggers could use on a variety of topics, such as law, copyright and tech. Sadly, it never really got off the ground, despite the initial burst of energy with people contributing some great information. And although I still think it's needed, I've come to realize that for which I want, may not be that for which we need. So here's our thought. People, wineries, retailers, all want to know who we are and what we do. So let's tell them! None of us, save for Gary, are big enough celebs to warrent a Wikipedia page, but we do warrent a "Wine Bloggers Resources" page. Also, in the spirit of a true wiki, we have ...

Social Tasting Note Site: Snooth

Editors note: Continuing our discussion on leading social tasting note sites, discussing why they important tools in the Wine bloggers arsenal, I thought it would be good to ask each one to provide a short recap of why they think their tool is good for wine bloggers. Next up is Phillip James from the site Snooth.com. Enjoy Snooth Blogger Tools Back in June, we rolled out a series of tools that allow wine bloggers to easily drop contextual links into their posts – and make money in the process. Our rationale was simple: there’s no simple, standardized way to reference wines online. Also, we believe there ...

Social Tasting Note Site: VinCellar

Editors note: Continuing our discussion on leading social tasting note sites, discussing why they important tools in the Wine bloggers arsenal, I thought it would be good to ask each one to provide a short recap of why they think their tool is good for wine bloggers. Up next is VinCellar from the guys at VinFolio. VinCellar – A Platform for the Wine Blogger VinCellar, powered by Vinfolio, is a free and easy to use web-based cellar management tool and a tool all wine bloggers will want to know about and utilize as both a wine lover and blogger. With a complete makeover in functionality and ...

Social Tasting Note Site: Cellartracker

Editors note: This week, we have a couple of "pitches" as it were, from the leading social tasting note sites. Since these are important tools in the Wine blogger's arsenal, we thought it would be good to ask each of the major sites to provide a short recap of why they think their tool is good for wine bloggers. First up is Eric Levine from Cellar Tracker, probably the oldest and most well known cellar management tool in existence. All articles are reprinted as we received them, with only spelling and minor grammatical corrections. Enjoy As you know CellarTracker is something different than a traditional blogging platform with two distinct groups of authors: End-users and some bloggers who can store personal tasting notes, group these into events with richer ordering etc. Some newer “professional” content channels. Initially this was just ...

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