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We are extremely honored to announce that Evan Dawson will be our 2nd Keynote Speaker at the European Wine Bloggers Conference. Evan Dawson is the author of the best selling book, “Summer in a Glass“, as well as a Contributor, Managing Editor and Finger Lakes Editor of the New York Cork [...]

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We’re very excited to announce our first keynote speaker, American journalist and author George M. Taber! A reporter and editor with Time magazine in the US and Europe for 21 years, Taber reported on the famous “Judgment of Paris” tasting where California wines were ranked alongside France’s best, in an event that [...]

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More great news! Massimo Travostino will be joining us from Italy to tell us why we should change our copyright terms from the default “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved” through the effective use of Creative Commons licensing. A wine aficionado at heart, he is passionate about increasing the amount of creativity (cultural, [...]

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We are very excited to announce that Elin McCoy has agreed to share her experience and insights at the European Wine Bloggers Conference this fall! According to Elin, her talk will be based on:

“Beyond Ivory Tower Wine Criticism
The internet and the explosion of wineries and wine regions worldwide have changed [...]

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We are very excited to announce that Evan Schnittman, formerly of Oxford University Press, and now with Bloomsbury, will be one of the EWBC’s keynote speakers. Evan sent us this as a brief outline of what he hopes to talk about:

“The digital [...]

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EWBC Call for Papers

On April 20, 2010 By

Image by Ryan Opaz via Flickr

EWBC 2010 is coming up sooner than many of us would like to admit. We know that most of you are thinking that October is a long, long way away. But guess what?! We’re living it already. Hence, we kindly ask that [...]

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Moderator: Ryan Opaz - Catavino.net

Time: 16:00 – 16:45 pm

Roundtable:

Esteban Cabezas – The Wine Academy Spain Marcio Ferriera – ViniPortugal Evelyne Resnick – Wine Brands

Theme: We will have just spent a day looking at where the world wine and online media have converged; how video is changing the [...]

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Doug Cook is the head of Twitter’s search initiatives, the creator of Able Grape, a soon to be two time EWBC attendee, and above all else, Doug is a great friend. At the EWBC, Doug will be on the panel “Social Media to Better Reach Your Readers”, where he’ll discuss how the online wine publishing [...]

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Charles Metcalfe, is the Co-Chairman and one of the Co-Founders of the International Wine Challenge, a columnist for Essencia do Vinho Magazine, a legend in the UK wine world for his loquacious and highly entertaining speaking engagements, and with the publication of his latest book, “The Wine and Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal”, [...]

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After last year, we realized that the EWBC conference has incredible potential to help out the wine world in various ways. While many of us are very well versed in social media and blogging, there are several others who have yet to fully understand its value. These people tend to be the [...]

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