“Have you photographed this bottle? Can I throw it away now?” Not an uncommon question in the Bigpinots house as, like some sort of digital hoarder, I photograph and document every different bottle of wine we open. I try to document some at tastings too, but that’s often just too laborious.
I’ve struggled with tasting notes for years: full ta [...]
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“Have you photographed this bottle? Can I throw it away now?” Not an uncommon question in the Bigpinots house as, like some sort of digital hoarder, I photograph and document every different bottle of wine we open. I try to document some at tastings too, but that’s often just too laborious.
I’ve struggled with tasting notes for years: full ta [...]
Pimp my vine
Published 16 August 2012
One morning, I stumbled across a tweet talking about @lagramiere’s mobile wine tasting truck raising funds on Kickstarter. I’d heard something about Kickstarter, but thought it was an online venture capitalist site for business people. Before I knew it I was backing all kinds of weird and wonderful ideas, including th [...]
Zarrella top 10s
Published 29 May 2012
Social media is awash with people who will happily give you their ‘expert’ advice but, in a field that is full of self-proclaimed ‘gurus’, their advice is usually as scientific as the words of a fairground mystic.
Dan Zarrella was so sick of hearing from “snake-oil salespeople” that he analysed 50 million tweets and Face [...]
The state of the (wine) nation 2011
Published 20 January 2012
In 2010, I wrote an article on the position of the wine industry in relation to technology. In short, it said the industry in the UK was in a pretty sorry state. There were obviously exceptions, and the huge online wine community was certainly not representative of how wine businesses were using it. So, one year on, [...]
A ‘dislike’ button on Fac...
Published 21 July 2011
The world of social media is generally a pretty friendly one. It’s full of terms such as like, follow, share, friends and +1. A typical day sees birthday wishes being sent, congratulations being offered, interest being shown in other people’s lives, long-lost friends reconnecting…
But that isn’t a true representation of [...]
Putting the “social” back...
Published 27 April 2011
“If this particular period in the world’s history had to be characterized in a simple way, it might be as one that is more highly, more globally, and more unexpectedly connected than at any time before it… the connected age…” ~ Duncan J. Watts
There’s a plethora of social media books [...]
Getting sued over a tweets
Published 4 December 2010
A friend of mine recently made a comment on Twitter about a wine company which got her into hot water. In fact, it was a retweet of somebody else’s comment. The original comment, made by someone she didn’t know, was a statement about a company. This company was unhappy about the comment. This company sent my fr [...]
Exposed: the wine industry and techno...
Published 7 November 2010
Time for a change
I recently decided that being involved in web and software development for the finance sector was no longer for me, and that the wine industry deserved my talent. After all, every company needs a decent website and a well-implemented social media strategy – not to mention usability testing, SEO, and [...]
Do I care what you’re telling m...
No doubt you’ve had conversations similar to this:
Friend: So, you use Twitter?
You: Yes.
Friend: I don’t get it. [Derisory laugh]. Telling people what you had for lunch! “Had cheese sandwich for lunch at Pret.” [Further mocking laughter]. Why do I care what you ate for lunch?
When I was first introduced to Twitter, I mocked it [...]