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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. ...

Wine Blogger Resource: Helpawinery.com

wine-guyWine bloggers, more importantly, American Wine Bloggers, are you getting wine samples? Most likely there is a mixed bag of both "yes" and "no" responses. Well, if you're interested in receiving samples, Josh over at the infamous Pinot Blogger has a new service called, Helpawinery.com, that connects wineries with wine bloggers interested in reviewing wines. Here's how it works: You sign up for the list, and soon after you'll start to receive emails with offers of wine samples from various wineries. The offers will be based on the types of wines you prefer to review, or the geographical area you specialize in. I had a chance to talk to Josh a bit about it when I was at the WBC last month, and I have to say, it's a great idea. I also talked to him about how it could be ...

Almost 1,000 Active Wine Blogs Have Been Registered!

Having just come back from the American Wine Bloggers Conference held in Santa Rosa, California, where wine bloggers across North America gathered together in an effort to better both the wine blogging field and the wine trade in general, it is with great pride that we announce our growing numbers. To date, we have reached 952 wine blogs, ranging in style, location, type and subject matter. As you will readily see, almost half of all blogs registered on Wineblogger.info are written in English. And of those, Regional and General Wine blogs take center stage with approximately 200 sites registered. Interestingly, blogs written in French are the second most registered wine blogs, yet seem to be the least represented in major wine networks like the European Wine Bloggers Conference and the Open Wine Consortium. What ...

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 ...

Calling all Wine Blog Lovers!! Please Participate in this Survey!

Wine blogs under the MicroscopeAlthough wine blogging is not a new endeavor, it is one that is lacking in thorough, meticulous research. Despite the fact that several wine bloggers, including ourselves, have attempted to gather information on the wine blogging community, these surveys cannot be chalked up to thorough and objective scientific research. The surveys were our best attempt to have a rudimentary understanding of both who we are as wine bloggers and the people who read them. Tracy Rickman, a Consumer Research doctoral candidate at Auburn University is dedicating her dissertation to wine blogs as an information source. Today she comes to us with a very simple request, please fill out her survey on wine blogs to help her further her research. Her intentions are purely ...

Popular Wine Blogs = Credible Wine Blogs

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? Allow ...

VinTank Is Calling All Wine Bloggers to Tell Us Who You Are!

From time to time, we plan on publishing press releases, or any document we feel could benefit the wineblogging community as a whole. Here is the first copy and paste job from our friends at VinTank, a new start up of Paul Mabray and Joel Vincent. While we know they are both friends of the wine blogging world, their new business venture is still rather unknown to us. That said, they are asking all wine bloggers to participate in a survey to better understand who we are. Clearly, we can't argue with that, but we just hope they share some of the results with us here at Wineblogger.info. Please read the release and then take the survey. It's very short and quite painless! Cheers, Ryan Opaz More about our social media whitepaper: VinTank, in partnership with Derek Bromley (www.derekbromley.com), one of the long time innovators and leaders in bridging ...

American Wine Blog Awards are Live

American Wine Blog AwardsWe would be remiss in our duties if we didn't mention that Tom Warks controversial, yet nonetheless important, American Wine Blog Awards are now accepting nominations. From Tom's site: This is the third year the Awards have been presented and produced at FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog and for the third year these awards are meant to bring attention to the very best in the Wine Blogging Universe. My hope is that not only will the cream rise to the top, but as a result of these awards more attention will be focused on the most important change to the wine writing world in recent memory. Categories include: Best Wine Blog Graphics & Presentation Best Industry/Business Wine Blog Best Wine Reviews on a Wine Blog Best Overall Wine Blog Best Single Subject Wine Blog ...

II Annual European Wine Blogger Conference: Collating Potential Interest from Wine Bloggers

logo_winebloggerGreetings Wine Bloggers! As the New Year has finally dawned, the time has come for us to think about new and exciting events in 2009. One such event is the European Wine Bloggers Conference. However, before we break the big news, we are trying to get some initial feedback regarding the event. We would love to know how many of you would be interested in attending our conference in mid June in Italy? Mind you, we aren't looking for solid commitments here, just need some feedback to help us make some final decisions in the planning process. In addition, we kindly request that you either pass this message on to other wine bloggers, and/or post this question on your blog, if you tend to attract many wine bloggers to your site. The more wine bloggers we reach, the better idea we have as to ...

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 ...

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