Gottfried Lamprecht of the winery Herrenhof Lamprecht is not only a new friend after our meeting in Vienna this past week, but also a model of what one person determined to sell more wine and create a name for himself can do. Self taught in the art of social media, winemaking, and video blogging, Gottfried …
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Social Media Speed Dating – SITTasting London
Are you in London? Do you have a question about social media and wine? Maybe your website needs an upgrade and you don’t know where to start; or someone is pushing you to get on Twitter or Facebook, but you don’t know what to do? Next week, I’ll be at the excellent SITT Wine Tasting …
Why the Wine Rags will Fail
Simple and straightforward, they are too busy trying to circle the horses and protect their asse(t)s and not wiling to accept the new reality of the WEB. Recently, a friend heard through the grapevine that Decanter doesn’t generally cover topics concerning the wine blog world. Apparently, it is reticent to post stories about what is …
The Myth of "Starting with Social Media"
Myth of Starting from ryan and gabriella opaz on Vimeo. Start dates in Social media campaigns don’t work if your not already there!
Ryan's first thoughts on Wine Future Conference in La Rioja, Spain
Wine Future Thoughts by Ryan from ryan and gabriella opaz on Vimeo. Ryan Opaz of Catavino gives you some of his thoughts on Wine Future.
Wine Future Conference in Longroño, Spain – Controversial but Interesting
Image via Wikipedia There is plenty of controversy around the upcoming Wine Future Conference in Logroño, Spain, this week. Parker is in town and there are lot’s of winemakers who are hoping to snag an audience with the Emperor himself. While Jancis, Oz, Steven and others will also draw big crowds, the other big news …
Miravos.tv – Video on Roadwebtv (spanish)
Worth sharing this if only to humble Gabriella with our poor Spanish skills…Either way this was a great weekend!
Live Blog Transcript from the LIWF Industry Briefing, "Wine and the Web: The Business of Getting Social"
As requested we now have the following commentary which was posted live to http://www.catavino.net/londonwinefair/ by Gabriella Opaz during the LIWF Industry Briefing, ‘Wine and the Web: the Business of getting Social’ that took place in the South Gallery, Rooms 11 and 12 on Wednesday 13th May 2009. The commentary has been kept in its true …
Size doesn't Matter: Quality is More Important
Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to communicate a very basic idea to people offline about the world online. This idea is rather obvious, very simple, and completely being ignored by advertisers outside the tech world. The idea: targeted audience. Catavino.net gets close to 15,000 unique visitors a month. The New York Times …