A very quick post this morning, before we kick off with the final day of this first EWBC conference:

There was so much discussed and tasted yesterday, it will take us weeks to post it all up. However, you can take a sneak preview by looking at the archive from the live feed here. Not sure [...]

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This is not a wrap up post.
We have just finished day 1 of the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference. FAR too tired to think about giving you a wrap up of the things we have discussed and done, but if you have been following us you know:

We’ve spent a long time trying to get all the [...]

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Part 3 – Micro … CONSULTANT
The revenue generation schemes discussed so far ([part 1] [part 2]) are reasonably direct, but one the greatest potential developments of blogging is the creation of a ‘personal brand’ – i.e. YOU.
Who has the most influence in this market?
Selling YOURSELF is what you do every day anyway, and you also [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I started a blog a few months ago, in the kitchen, solely to stop my husband from nagging me to do it. To be honest, I was the world biggest cynic, thinking that blogging was a complete waste of time, and it drove me nuts to watch Gianpaolo [...]

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Part 2 – Micro … RETAILER
Maybe we could answer the question: Why should wine bloggers all be “journalists”, worrying about objectivity, even-handedness, transparency and so on?
I believe I first saw this point on pinotblogger, but we are at risk of limiting ourselves too much if wine bloggers are ALL to be considered [...]

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When, where and why did you begin blogging?
I was seduced by the impact of social computing in branding and marketing on summer 2005, just when I was defending my doctoral thesis about digital branding, at the same moment that I was talking something big was making the second big revolution of internet: Social computing, web [...]

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1. Micro … PUBLISHER
We CAN make money blogging about wine, but as with all business ventures it is very difficult to be successful without having a clear idea of what your business IS, and how you are going to achieve that success.
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Most bloggers have little plan of what they [...]

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What is your profession?
Student at Trinity College Dublin
Why is wine blogging relevant to you?
I am doing a 6 week internship with TodoVino during August and September, and ultimately hope to forge a career in the wine industry after finishing my languages degree. I am therefore fascinated to see how blogging and wine can work [...]

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The Keynote speaker is often the reason why an event draws participants. The European Wine Blogger’s Conference is different. The mere fact that we are the first group of bloggers to simply get together and talk about wine blogging, well, that seems to be enough to draw people in and of itself. So far, the [...]

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What is your profession?
Journalist, wine writer, European Editor Wine Enthusiast Magazine (US)
Why is wine blogging relevant to you?
I have been telling myself I’d blog for several years.
What is the main difference between print and wine blogging?
Print still seems more permanent. Blogs are less structured and more disorganised. They are more like a stream of [...]

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