Wine Bloggers!
Allison writes a weekly wine and food column, appearing most Wednesdays in the Penticton Herald. Here’s her piece from March 6th on the Wine Bloggers Conference coming to Penticton. It’s perhaps the biggest thing in wine and social media, at least in North America, as 300 wine bloggers, foodies, writers, social media “geeks” and wine industry professionals get ready to descend upon Penticton for three days immersed in B.C. wine. The Wine Bloggers Conference comes to Canada for the first time from June 6-8, and...
read moreWhither Eat.Drink.Tweet.?
Eat.Drink.Tweet. — the social media conference with a culinary twist — has been on hiatus as we’ve been working on client projects, in particular, planning, with the team at Tourism Penticton, for the Wine Bloggers Conference in Penticton this June 6-8. If you’re keen to learn about social media and wine, register now for WBC, and be sure to follow @wbcokanagan and @winebloggerscon on Twitter. In the fall of 2013, Eat.Drink.Tweet. will return as a series of educational seminars, with great food and wine, of course. Sign...
read moreThe famous CoupDesChats
Bowing to public (read: Twitter) pressure, my three cats — collectively known under the hashtag #coupdeschats — now have their own Instagram account. Why? First of all, cats are big on social media. Just look at the LOL cats of I can haz cheeseburger, or the phenom that is Grumpy Cat, who’s now trademarked and is the most talked about mammal on social media, according to this infographic. Grumpy’s debut cat food commercial should be appearing soon. Second, rather than inundating Facebook friends and Twitter or...
read moreNEWS RELEASE: The return of #eatdrinktweet, February 17-19.
Award-winning social media conference, with a culinary twist, returns to Penticton Penticton, BC: Eat.Drink.Tweet., an event that spawned more than 2.5 million hits on Twitter last March and led to its founder getting a tattoo to mark the achievement, returns to the Penticton campus of Okanagan College from February 17-19. Eat.Drink.Tweet. is a unique conference about social media that combines education with “IRL” — in real life — networking opportunities featuring craft beer, BC wine, and gourmet food. This year,...
read moreYour guide to #eatdrinktweet!
Pondering registering for Eat.Drink.Tweet., coming up February 17-19 at Okanagan College in Penticton, but not sure what to register for? Here’s a handy-dandy guide. First, determine if you are in one of these categories, or if you are simply someone who enjoys learning over craft beer, a glass of wine, and gourmet munchies: a marketer in the hospitality sector — wineries, restaurants, attractions, accommodations, arts and culture organizations a tourism operators and stakeholders; an event manager or planner; a...
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