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...
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...
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...
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...
Read MoreThe Facebook phenom that is Penticton, BC
Late last week The Huffington Post, one of the most widely-read sites in the English-speaking world, posted an article about the most talked about travel destinations on Facebook. I’ve lost track of how many times the article, read it here, has been shared on Facebook by just my network – more than 100 shares the last time I did some fancy counting – nevermind how many times it’s been tweeted. Why? Penticton, my home base, made the list, the only Canadian destination to...
Read MoreThings that happened in 2011
Over the last four or five years, I’ve sent a list of “things that happened” with my Christmas cards, instead of a standard holiday letter. This year, however, the cards were halted…I spent the cash I would have used for cards and postage to buy some items for the SPCA. Nevertheless, as 2011 draws to a close, I give you: things that happened in 2011. Enjoy. Did not learn to cook. Anything. | Continued to win fans with Twitter hashtag #coupdeschats. | Visited Thomas...
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