When you launch an idea like the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference, everyone gets excited. It is new concept that is innovative and full of potential. Clearly, the future looks bright.
But with nothing to show for it but a brilliant ‘pitch’, potential sponsors will justifiably be somewhat skeptical investing their money. What if it never happens? [...]

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What is your profession?
Since I became a mother, I decided to leave my old job (lawyer) to give a helping hand to my husband (Filippo Ronco) with TigullioVino.it and Vinix. My first activity on TigullioVino.it was to select and manage the best everyday “news” content for our weekly newsletter. In the meantime, I gave support [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I decided to start blogging during October 2007 while, at the same time, starting my PhD thesis which on wine marketing. Therefore, I started to read intensely and to examine the new ways of media communication and I felt truly interested about blogs and its possibilities. Given this, [...]

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According to the counter on my blog, there are now less than 35 days to go to our conference, and things are hotting up.
Soon we will announce our latest sponsors and their exciting plans to join the conversation that we are starting with this event.
However, we thought it was an opportune moment to remind those [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I started this adventure in the beginning of 2008, as a result of my collaboration with Yvinoss based in Barcelona.
In a few short sentences, summarize your intention with your wine blog.
My goal is to give people a sneak peak into the world of wine from [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I wanted to launch a blog for my company, Blue Prism, based on enterprise software. I had no idea what a weblog was, so I thought I would practice on a private one first. I considered writing about glorious and awesome Manchester City Football Club, but [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I began in July 2005 in order to chronicle this crazy adventure we had just embarked upon, buying vineyards in the South of France. The idea was mainly to keep friends and family in the loop. Then one day I was poking around some other blogs [...]

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We’ve all noticed how magazines are slowly fading into the shadows, as growth in magazine and newspaper subscriptions remain dormant, but has blogging taken over center stage? According to Jay Rayner of the Guardian, it may be curtains at least for critics.
It appears that consumers no longer feel the need to obtain their opinions from [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
Strictly speaking I’m not a wine blogger. I post wine reviews on Cork’d, Bottletalk, Snooth and other “Wine 2.0″ communities, and I comment on wines and food on my Flickr pages (http://flickr.com/ricard67). I started posting my thoughts about wine online two or three years ago probably for the [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
We very recently started blogging, as it was a natural evolution from our previous static website.
In a few short sentences, summarize your intention with your wine blog.
We not only want to continue telling people about both ourselves and our wines, but are also curious what the world had [...]

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