Entries Tagged as 'planning'

Outline of the conference programme

March 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here is our first attempt to bring together a plan that will allow us all time to talk about wine blogging, but also time to do what we love - taste wine!
This is a first draft specifically designed to encourage you to give us feedback and ideas for developing it further. More details on each [...]

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Who might we meet? Some early adopters.

February 18th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Thank you VERY much for those of you who have taken the time to get in touch and commit to the conference at such an early stage. At this point the door is still open to join or leave depending on your other commitments, but we are very heartened by the positive response to the [...]

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An Open Letter to Wine Bloggers

February 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

This letter has recently been sent to wine bloggers on facebook, but could equally be relevant to other wine bloggers who do not use facebook (and we can certainly see why).
“Dear Fellow Wine Blogger,
As a member of the 200+ strong Wine Bloggers group on facebook, we are writing to you to get your advice and [...]

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So why do we need a conference?

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I suppose that as someone who helped to kick off this idea I ought to maybe start with some thoughts on why you should bother attending it.
About 6 months ago facebook was all a-flutter with lots of bloggers [who were not US-based students] “seeing the (facebook) light” and joining up, making new contacts, discovering new [...]

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Starting a list

January 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Please leave a comment at the bottom of this post if you think you can make it. Right now we have 7 positive votes for the conference taking place the last weekend of August.  We can’t make everyone happy but we do need to start planning. So, here’s what I’m going to do. If you [...]

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We have a website!

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to the new home of the European Wine Blogging Conference. Hopefully this site helps to oragnize and develop this idea that we are in the middle of creating. Is it perfect, no. Will it grow and change, yes!  Will it be mono-lingual, I hope not. If you are planning on attending, or are thinking [...]

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