tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392471788299072903.post1039445093634279633..comments2023-12-25T00:25:28.713-08:00Comments on WineBizNews: Marketing & Packaging Dynamics Today -- Zinfandel Producers Give Their PerspectivesBarbara Keck (mountainhighwines at gmail dot com)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10904356674364163038noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392471788299072903.post-80858228457834829382009-02-07T15:14:00.000-08:002009-02-07T15:14:00.000-08:00Barbara: Your comments resonate and we agree UWGS ...Barbara: Your comments resonate and we agree UWGS is a great annual industry venue. Social Networking was a hot topic along with green wineries at this year's conference.<BR/><BR/>We are a Boutique winery (http://eaglesnestwinery.com) in the Ramona Valley AVA (Where the heck is that?!?!) northeast of San Diego, California (You can grow wine grapes there!?!?) which is a totally excellent place to grow vitus vinifera - both reds and whites. <BR/><BR/>We dropped a hard copy winery newsletter for a newly created "Web 2.0" winery blog (http://eaglesnestwinery.ning.com).<BR/><BR/>We feel that blogs offer tech savvy Boutique wineries a much more personal, timely, interactive, and cost effective means of keeping in touch with their members and readership. Our experience indicates it takes about the same amount of time to maintain and cheerlead the blog site as supporting a traditional newsletter without the printing lead-time, costs and mailing hassles. <BR/><BR/>We met, and are now and huge friends and fans of Cheryl Wolhar of My Vine Space (http://www.myvinespace.com/) at Joel Vincent's Wine Bloggers Conference (http://winebloggersconference.org/). <BR/><BR/>Cheryl provided invaluable coaching on our initial blog development allowing us to bring it up in two (2) short - but busy weeks (it helped to we were IT professionals on the side). <BR/><BR/>Cheryl’s a true gem and highly recommended to wineries needing social engineering consultant services. Others including Jo Diaz, Wine PR professional and blogger (http://wine-blog.org) are discussing “early adopter” winery efforts to add social media technologies to their business processes. <BR/><BR/>Unlike national or global wine lover blogs, we purposely limit our blog membership to friends, fans, and customers to maintain a safe and enjoyable blogging environment. Our members are primarily from the USA but we have global members too.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14504110129689752562noreply@blogger.com