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WBC11: A Conference for Wine Bloggers -Part II
When I signed up for the North American Wine Bloggers Conference, I had just assumed, without really giving it much thought, that it would be a conference mostly about the art and practice of blogging, made into a wine blogger conference by the shared interest of those attending. In fact, it was mostly about wine, with a few sessions devoted to the practice of blogging.
Thank God for that.
What was I thinking? Of course, it should be about the wine. After all, I get a regular stream of solicitations at the office for conferences focused on the how-to of social media, so that market is apparently covered. The wine blogger conference market, however, is another story, and WBC11 catered to it in so many ways, especially by providing am abundance of opportunities to taste wines – Virginia wine in particular, I’m happy to say – and hear from the men and women who grew the grapes and turned them into wine. That’s something you just can’t get just anywhere else. Continue Reading–>
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