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Video: Tom Wark Interviews WBC13 Keynote James Conaway

February 7, 2013

In case you missed it, WBC and Tom Wark had a fun “Hangout” interview yesterday on Google+ with this year’s Keynote Speaker, James Conaway. We let Tom handle the interview, and it was great to hear insights from James about his past as a writer, his wine books, his new novel, and his take on [...]

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Author James Conaway Announced as #WBC13 Keynote Speaker

February 4, 2013

A master at telling the story behind the wine, we are thrilled to announce that James Conaway will join us in Penticton as our 2013 Wine Bloggers’ Conference Keynote Speaker. Conaway is author of many books including best-seller, Napa: The Story of an American Eden and its sequel, The Far Side of Eden: New Money, Old Land, [...]

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Travel Planning for WBC13 by Elizabeth Smith

January 31, 2013

About our Guest Blogger: Elizabeth (Beth) Smith is a home-based travel agent and travel and wine blogger affectionately known by her Twitter ID, @travelwinechick. She holds WSET’s Level 1 Award in Wines and Level 2 Award in Wines and Spirits, in addition to graduate degrees and studies in French and Spanish education. Visit her blog, Travelling [...]

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Agenda Taking Shape for Wine Bloggers’ Conference 2013

January 29, 2013

Have you looked at the agenda lately for #WBC13? It’s shaping up to be quite an event this summer in Penticton, B.C. as wine bloggers from around North America (and beyond) gather for the 6th annual Wine Bloggers’ Conference. We’ll be officially announcing our Keynote speakers in the coming days – so stay tuned for [...]

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2013 Wine Bloggers’ Conference Content Survey

January 10, 2013

If you’re registered for this year’s Wine Bloggers’ Conferences (and/or you’ve attended a Wine Bloggers’ Conference in the past) you should have received an email earlier this week from us asking that you complete a short survey related to what content you’d like to see at this year’s conference. If you have not yet attended [...]

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New British Columbia Food & Wine Blog Database

January 3, 2013

In preparation for our 2013 Wine Bloggers’ Conference in Penticton, B.C., we have collected a list of food and wine blogs from British Columbia and have put them up on our site in a searchable format. The list is accessible from our site’s right sidebar – or to link directly to the list, visit: http://winebloggersconference.org/america/b-c-wine-blogs/. Listings [...]

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Pre-Conference Excursions Announced for WBC13

December 27, 2012

One important aspect to the Wine Bloggers’ Conference is our pre-conference excursions. Each year, optional excursions are arranged with local wineries, associations, and organizations in the region(s) surrounding the conference to offer our wine bloggers additional opportunities to explore the area. For many, the excursions are often highlights of their WBC experience! Each year brings [...]

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Wine Bloggers’ Conference – Call for Content Suggestions!

December 10, 2012

It is time for us to start planning the detailed content of the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference, to be held June 6-8 in beautiful Penticton, BC., and our first step is to get input from you, our blogging community! Take a look at our outline Agenda on this site. Many of the components are already [...]

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Airline Discounts Available for #WBC13!

November 1, 2012

We’re pleased to announce two new sponsors of the 2013 The Wine Bloggers’ Conference!! Alaska Airlines is extending a 10% discount on travel into and out of Kelowna, B.C. from any US city it services between June 3rd and June 11th, 2013. Alaska Airlines, part of the Alaska Air Group, serves more than 90 cities throughout [...]

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Wine Bloggers’ Conference: The Matchmaker

October 9, 2012

There have been 5 annual Wine Bloggers’ Conferences to-date with our 6th annual conference scheduled to take place in beautiful Penticton, British Columbia in June, 2013. A number of relationships and partnerships come out of our Wine Bloggers’ Conferences. Bloggers meet each other, and become friends and co-collaborators; bloggers make industry connections, some of which [...]

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Using Kred Story to Measure Influence and Generate Content

October 5, 2012

Launched in September, 2011, Kred.Com is a relatively new player in the social influence measurement world. Positioned to challenge Klout with its open book approach to measuring one’s influence, Kred also seems to offer an alternative  look as to how one influences, to whom, and why. In August, Kred launched Kred Story, which uses influencer [...]

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Call for Keynote Speakers at the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference

September 26, 2012

Please provide us with your suggestions for keynote speakers at the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference. Each year, we generally have two keynote speakers (we see no reason to limit this to one) and have had some fantastic people as keynote speakers over the years, including: Gary Vaynerchuk (founder of Wine Library TV) Alice Feiring (wine [...]

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Ignite Wine

September 18, 2012

At the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference we held an Ignite Wine session for the second time. Ignite is “a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes.” At the WBC, [...]

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Honoring the WBC Lifers

September 13, 2012

The Wine Bloggers Conference has now been held five times: 2008 Sonoma County, CA 2009 Sonoma and Napa, CA 2010 Walla Walla, WA 2011 Charlottesville, VA 2012 Portland, OR We are very proud to reveal that 13 people have attended all five conferences: Amy Corron Power, Another Wine Blog, @WineWonkette Craig Camp, Cornerstone Cellars, @CraigCamp [...]

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Post WBC12 Blog Posts & Social Stats

September 7, 2012

The Wine Bloggers’ Conference of 2012 has come and gone. Many pinots were drunk, new friendships formed, and memories of our time in Oregon made. Penticton is just a short 9 months away, and before we dedicate ourselves fully to organizing WBC13, we get to analyze some of the data from WBC12, and we get [...]

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Zephyr Adventures Hires Two New WBC Staffers

September 4, 2012

We are super pleased to announce that Heather Herrig and Cindy Molchany have joined Zephyr Adventures to help run our six conferences. If you have not met them yet, you will at WBC13 in Penticton next June. Heather is joining us part-time in charge of actually running the logistics of the Wine Bloggers Conference and [...]

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Tom Wark’s Fermentation Has New URL

September 2, 2012

Tom Wark, one of the most famous wine bloggers out there and a crucial part of the Wine Bloggers Conference, has a new URL for his blog, Fermentation. Tom launched his blog almost eight years ago and became one of the most respected voices in wine blogging. (In my personal opinion, his is the most [...]

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Wine Tourism Conference Offer for Bloggers

August 30, 2012

This blog post comes to you from Marcy Gordon, wine blogger at Come for the Wine, where she specializes in wine tourism. Full disclosure – Marcy is helping conference organizer Zephyr Adventures with the 2013 Wine Tourism Conference. ————————— Wine, Food, and Travel bloggers — Are you looking to expand your professional contacts and opportunities [...]

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Continuing the WBC Conversation

August 23, 2012

Wine bloggers and industry members who gathered in Portland last weekend for the Wine Bloggers Conference had an excellent opportunity to meet and share ideas. The online chatter is they don’t want this to end and would like a way to continue the conversation from now until next year’s conference in British Columbia. For immediate [...]

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Penticton, BC to Host the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference

August 19, 2012

We are SUPER pleased to announce that Penticton, British Columbia will be hosting the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference from June 6-8. This will be the first conference located in Canada and we think it will an outstanding location. Registration is now open. Those of you following along might remember we tentatively announced this last year [...]

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