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Palate Press: The Online Wine Magazine by Bloggers

Editor's Note: Palate Press is an online magazine that features wine writers from all walks of life. From citizen bloggers to big wig writers, it's packed with stories from wines across the globe. What's unique about PP is its editorial process. Bloggers are an independent bunch and tend to stay clear from someone telling them what stays or goes before publication. Therefore, the mere hint of an editor is typically shunned before the 3 syllables escape one's lips. Yet PP has thrived with its editorial review, allowing any writer to submit their article as long as they're open to editorial criticism. We want to congratulate founder, David Honig, and his crew for putting in the hard work, sweat and elbow grease it's taken to get this ...

Short Blogger Survey

A quick favor for Mike Duffy of the Winery Webstie Report who wants to have all you bloggers and blog readers take a one question survey. Help him out!The Winery Web Site Report is conducting a one-question survey about how you read wine/winery blogs: How Do You Read Blogs? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bszk0DP9pAszDw57PmawgQ_3d_3d It should take less than a minute of your time, and the results will be published on 2/19. Mike ----- Michael E. Duffy, Publisher The Winery Web Site Report http://blog.WineryWebSiteReport.com/ Related articles by ZemantaThe Most Prolific Winery Bloggers of 2008 (winerywebsitereport.com)Wine Business Monthly unveils their list of Hot Small Brands of 2008 (americanwinery.com)Web 2.0 for wineries: enhancing interaction and boosting sales (manfatta.com) Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

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:...

Standard Blogging Software Works – Don’t eff it up!

Lately I've seen a lot of new sites that employ blogging software that was either created by themselves/their company and/or instances where a standard piece of software was modified past the point of functioning. Here's a FREE piece of advice and something that will save you tons of money and guarantee that your blog will function. USE FREE SOFTWARE! If your paying for the software and not for the design your wasting your money. Just so you know a blog must have the following to be a blog and to be a blog that works: RSS enabled - if I can't subscribe to your site with my google reader, you fail, and I dont' read your site. Since RSS is retardly simple to implement this should not ...

Contact Us?

Let's assume that you're a wine blogger, or any kind of blogger for that matter. Pretend I'm a winery with limited internet knowledge, other than knowing that it might be good to send a sample or two to wine bloggers for review. So, I go to your website, and I look to contact you. Will I succeed? Sadly, the answer is often, NO. This is a short tip and a very easy problem to solve! Make sure there is a VERY OBVIOUS WAY to contact you! Bold letters help, but beyond that, make sure your info is near the top of the page, and don't do any of this "mask your email" crap like: ryan _at_ Catavino (dot) net. First off, most people will not fully understand this VERY SIMPLE code, but more than that, Spammers can harvest this email anyways. They ...

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