Credibility is a strange term to me. When I sit with the word, the first feeling that comes to mind is trust. Am I trustworthy? Can people trust what I say as true and accurate? Can they come to me knowing that I will continually do my best to give them advice and information that is valid based on my experience or on the experience of others?
Feels heavy, as if I have a thousand eyes looking at me saying "are you a good and honest human being"?
I hope I am. I try to be. But I can't guarantee that I am successful everyday.
I bring the term credibility to the floor today because many people, both in print and in the internet, have debated the credibility of a blogger.
In short are bloggers trustworthy and honest? Are we ethical?
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1. Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it?
Wine has always encouraged people to discuss, write, and share stories of their wine experiences with others. Blogging allows people to easily do this on a large scale with with virtually no overhead. People aren't going to stop communicating about wine. Will the medium evolve, change, and shift? Sure. But just as the web has matured, wine blogging will do the same thing.
2. What is one thing wine blogs get right?
Partnership and cooperation. There isn't internal competition between wine blogs for market share, ad revenue, or even readers. Bloggers often link to other blogs in their posts, communicate through Twitter, on message boards, and are constantly cooperating and interacting. Can you imagine CNN and Fox News ...
We asked some winebloggers last week to answer some questions about wine blogging. Our first answer is here, and we hope to hear from more of you very soon. If you want to participate, just answer the questions listed in this post and we'll get your response up on the site right away!
Cheers,
Ryan
Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it?
It's not a fad. Nothing with real passion behind it is a fad. The medium may evolve and change, but at it's heart wine blogging is wine media by & for the masses. Once something like that has been liberated, it cannot again become contained.
What is one thing wine blogs get right?
Passion.
What is one thing that wine blogs get wrong or need to improve?
It needs to be more than what you drank last night. Have a ...
Hello Everyone
Wineblogger.info is beginning to come together and with some additional effort we are beginning to layout new tools and features to make it a better resource for people who want to learn about wine blogs and wine blogging. We've come to realize that our primary audience will most likely not be fellow wine bloggers, but rather people who want to learn about the world of wine blogs, what they mean, and how to interact with them. Therefore we have a few questions for you. On our blog we'll be publishing short profiles with your logo/image along with answers to the following questions.
Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it?
What is one thing wine blogs get right?
What is one thing that wine blogs get wrong or ...
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:...
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 ...
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