Cruvee’s done it again, and wins the 2010 Diaz Communications Innovator of the Year Award
The 2009 Diaz Communications Innovator of the Year Award went to Paul Mabray of VinTank, for revolutionizing the way wine purchases can be made; i.e., over the Internet. Remember the days of faxing in orders? Now, Cruvee has just upped the ante with its Application for sales within the realm of social media, by launching [...]
Big Jim and Lil’ Jo ~ off and running
Comments this week will be placed in a drawing for a $75.00 gift certificate from True Fabrications. (Just your name will qualify you.) Drawing on Saturday. Along with Chang Liow and Jose Diaz… The Wine Century Club of Windsor CA has officially begun. I arrived at Chinois Bistro (our new club house) with the Local [...]
Social Media Options Continue to Expand with GrapeStories
Recently, Thea Dwelle, known affectionately as @winebratsf just commented on this blog: “It’s exciting to see what this year will bring in the wine industry technology explosion!” I thought to myself, “What else could possibly happen… So much has already flooded my brain.” But, within only a few minutes I got my answer via Email. [...]
Wine-Blog’s Fourth Bloggiversary
Weekly Holidaze Drawing: Just leave a comment on any wine-blog entry this month, to win gifts this December: We all have to thank Gwendolyn Alley (ArtPredator and WinePredator) for the word “Bloggiversary.” Here I am with my fourth and reflecting on those past four years of amazing changes. When I began blogging, it was because [...]
Why Would an Advocacy Group Launch a Social Media Website Exclusive to its Members?
PS I Love You has launched the first wine community, variety advocacy site, which is intended to benefit its members as an added value. For the last seven years, Petite Sirah, with the assistance of the advocacy group PS I Love You, has grown by leaps and bounds, but is still only supported by the [...]
Modern Developments: Then | Clipping Services ~ Now | Social Media Monitoring
For years and years I was able to monitor my PR efforts and successes through what I can now call “traditional” clipping services. If anything was written about any one of the brands that I was promoting, my clipping service was vigilant for those names and delivered the goods. From that we were able to [...]
Social Wine Community Networks to Follow
Image via CrunchBase No matter which ones I sign up for, there’s no getting ahead of Joel Vincent, that I can tell you for sure. I become a member of any wine community page, and BINGO… Joel’s my friend. Just once, I’d like to join an online wine community, and find it before Joel does, [...]
