NEWS 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 MoreAnnouncing the 2012 Eat.Drink.Tweet. lineup
Eat.Drink.Tweet. returns to Penticton this February 17-19 with some familiar and new faces on the social media front, including one of Canada’s top bloggers, a legally blind photographer, and a brief history of BC’s crazy liquor laws. Following the success of last year’s sold out event, and subsequent EDT’s held around the province, All She Wrote has once again partnered with Okanagan College to host Eat.Drink.Tweet., a social media conference with a culinary twist. This...
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 MoreBeer! Wine! Eat.Drink.Tweet.!
Before getting to the beer and wine portion of this post, more award news on the Eat.Drink.Tweet. front, as All She Wrote and Okanagan College recently were given the LERN (international Learning Resources Network) award for excellence in marketing, beating out 100 entries from four countries. This is “kind of a big deal” in education circles, and the award was collected by Lorrie Forde of Okanagan College (Penticton) at the annual LERN conference in New Orleans earlier this month....
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