Wine Bloggers Worth Celebrating
Time to shine a spotlight on those who have been kind enough to send some light my way. It’s my hope to possibly turn you onto a great wine blogger that you might not know… Most of them you might already know. Each person mentioned in this list has the same passion that I know [...]
Thanking My Grindstone Cowboy ~ Behind Every Woman, There’s a Great Man
If you’re reading this, and have read my blog in the past, you’re seeing my new look. I just got a make-over, and I have to thank Jose… my webmaster, hero, and all-around great guy. For perhaps a year now, he’s been encouraging me to refresh Wine-Blog’s look; not because there was anything intrinsically wrong [...]
How do you feel about being aggregated? I know how I do…
I just got another Dear Jo Email that touched on a wine blogging subject. Here’s the question: Hi Jo, I need to know what you know about a European website Polskiewinnice.eu. I have found all my post and many other wine blog posts copied and posted on this site. I am listed as a contributor [...]
Trip to Portugal: EWBC and Enoforum Wines ~ I’m Flying
Today, I’m flying to Portugal to attend the European Wine Bloggers Conference, and to visit with Enoforum Wines, our host. I’ve not blogged about this going into it, because this is a 10 day journey. I wanted to have anyone who enjoys this blog see the trip through my camera lens, and that’s what it’s [...]
Read a Wine Blog? Participate in a Poll as Part of a Doctoral Study
Tracy Rickman is a Consumer Research doctoral candidate at Auburn University (Alabama), and her dissertation pertains to wine blogs as an information source. It’s entitled Wine Blogs as a Viable Information Source: Trust Affect and Post Participant Behavior Tracy doesn’t have any agenda except to add to the theories of media studies. Tracy and I [...]
Flutter ~ The Future of Advertising
Flutter is going to take the Internet to a whole new level. And, if you’re wanting to advertise your wine brand – or any product or service to the Millennial demographic, honestly, this is going to be your next best option. According to founder Matt Ibsen, “If Twitter is like micro blogging, than that would [...]
American Squirrel Awards – Wine-Blog is a Winner
American Squirrel Awards… Just as I was contemplating that we need another wine blog awards system, that would be something equivalent to a “Festivus” (Frank Costanza, George’s father on Seinfeld who created a “Festivus,” a Festival for the Rest of Us), along came the American Squirrel Awards. The reason this was spinning through my head [...]
