Michael Wangbickler on August 29th, 2010

Hotdog. Frankfurter. Tube Steak. No matter what you call it, there are few foods that compare to the perfect hotdog. You can keep your Falafel, Larb Gai, or bacon jam. Mustard, onions, a little kraut on a bun… perfection. And few compare to the beauty that is a red hot from Dante’s Inferno Dogs. While [...]

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Michael Wangbickler on August 6th, 2010

Recently, I’ve been getting more and more auto or canned “thanks for following” direct messages on Twitter. I’ve suggested in the past that this was bad etiquette, but why? First of all, it goes against everything that makes social media an effective marketing/customer service tool. The strength of social media is the ability to engage [...]

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Michael Wangbickler on July 14th, 2010

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly a month since the conclusion of the American Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla, Washington. I have been to each conference since the first one on Sonoma in 2008, and I feel that this one was the best by far. An amazing array of bloggers contributed to [...]

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Michael Wangbickler on July 2nd, 2010

This is the last video of the sessions I recorded at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla. This one happens to be of the panel on which I participated, along with Grace Doyle of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Beth Cotenoff from Cornerstone Communications. Our goal was to have a dialog about how Bloggers [...]

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Michael Wangbickler on July 1st, 2010

Here is the third in the series of break-out sessions I recorded during the Wine Bloggers Conference. This one is titled Vlogging. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled 2010 = the Year of Video. In it I explain that video is the next big thing in blogging, which is why I was [...]

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