Great news! As promised, this event is going from strength to strength and the 2009 edition of the European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC) has just been officially announced as taking place in Lisbon, October 30th through November 1st 2009.
We are also very excited to say that we have further developed our ties with the North [...]

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The first European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC), that brought together online wine writers and developers from across Europe, has just ended but the discussions are still ongoing.
Around 40 bloggers representing 11 different countries across Europe but also as far afield as Canada, Australia and the USA got together in the first event of its kind [...]

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How were we to know, when we started this event a few months ago, that we would receive so many requests from eager bloggers interested in participating, right up until the very last moment?
A few keen friends would surely come, and a few of the more internationally focused blogs would consider it, but our targets [...]

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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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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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Back in February, we sent, and posted, an open letter to all wine bloggers sharing information on the plans for the first European Wine Bloggers Conference. Now, we’d like to share this most recent email with you in case you are thinking of attending the conference.
Dear friend,
With almost 40 wine bloggers already having expressed an [...]

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We have always intended this inaugural European Wine Bloggers’ Conference to be different, setting a new standard for conferences, particularly in the wine world.
When we thought about how we would discuss the key issues, we had to find a way to allow as much interaction as possible, yet give all those who wanted it a [...]

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The good news just keeps rolling into the EWBC headquarters. Right off the press, Wines of Spain has recently published an article on the conference, emphasizing our common desire to not only learn how to better collaborate, but also gain the respect and the attention of the wine trade. What makes this news so fantastic [...]

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One of the things we hope to do with the conference is to get to know each other better. There are a lot of wine bloggers out there with very different backgrounds, expertise and interests and by learning more about other bloggers we hope to find more areas of common interest, beyond wine of course, [...]

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We’re back! Although we’ve been a little quiet for awhile, it’s only because we’ve been trying our best to find a good strategy to attract further financial donors. To make this conference as useful as we can for an extremely reasonable price, we’ve been working hard to find companies who are willing to give us [...]

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