Comments on: Wine Blogs in Europe http://www.winebrandsblog.com/2010/09/wine-blogs-in-europe/ International Digital Strategies for Wine Brands Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Iris http://www.winebrandsblog.com/2010/09/wine-blogs-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-524 Iris Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:13:48 +0000 http://www.winebrandsblog.com/?p=1567#comment-524 I think, it’s a great idea, that all those students from “more exotic” countries than old Europe and USA comme from France as a group with their teachers – great opportunity to learn and spread the news!

]]> By: Evelyne Resnick http://www.winebrandsblog.com/2010/09/wine-blogs-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Evelyne Resnick Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:06:56 +0000 http://www.winebrandsblog.com/?p=1567#comment-511 Hi Iris,
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful explanation. I am not familiar with the German “blogosphere” and will be very interested in talking to Thomas Lippert in Vienna next month. I was aware of the first French winery bloggers’ meeting in Bordeaux during Vinexpo 2009 and couldn’t attend.

I hope ranking won’t become a major issue among French or European wine bloggers. It is important for those of us who want to monetize their blog but shouldn’t become the only criteria: content, interaction with readers or other bloggers, are also important issues.
Let’s keep talking about it in Vienna!

]]> By: Iris http://www.winebrandsblog.com/2010/09/wine-blogs-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Iris Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:44:48 +0000 http://www.winebrandsblog.com/?p=1567#comment-510 writing a blog about wine in French and a second one in German (my mother-tongue), I’m quite familiar with the two blogosphères, aswe say in French. There are “cultural” differences between these two spheres, some of the features are easy to discover, by looking at blog lists: much more wine blogging women in French, than in German, more blogging winemakers in France than in Germany – up till now more disputes and status fights among German wine bloggers (especially the professional ones, like publicists and marketeers for whom “ranking” is important, if they will be able to monetise their blogs via advertisements), than in France, where Networking works better – and where “ranking” was no subject till this summer and especially since wikio started their wineblog ranking last week.

Private wine-bloggers in Germany publish a lot of tasting notes, French ones talk more often about vineyard visits, especially in Summer, when oenotourisme rimes with visiting wine regions and favourite winemakers. You can find some good examples on the last Vendredis du Vin edition (Frances WineblogingWednesday). The facebook groupe of this monthly blog-event has won more than 300 members in a few months. The German equivalent “Weinrallye” works on the same principle, but is less active in social networks like facebook and twitter. But if you go to Vienna, you can talk to Thomas Lippert (Winzerblogger) about the German wineblog scene – he is something like the “father” of wineblog Networking and also the founder of “Genussblog.net” a daily aggregation of wineblog news.

French winery blogs have held their first greater reunion last summer during Vinexpo at Bordeaux by organising an OFF event :
http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/

We hope to be able to reunite more participants – perhaps with more European bloging winemakers, in the same place next year…

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