Over the course of the last year, I’ve made a conscious decision not to talk shop regarding wine blogging.
While it’s certainly interesting if you’re involved in the community, it can be stultifyingly boring if you’re not, like going to a work-related cocktail party with your spouse and talking about her business all night.
When pressed into those awkward work social situations I usually find myself close to the bar and a TV that is playing the game with my thoughts in a third, entirely different place—a sentiment that is probably shared by many that read online wine sites.
With the above caveat in place, I do want to talk “Inside Baseball” for just a moment.
This past weekend I attended a wine blogger confab in Walla Walla, WA and gave a presentation along with two top-notch comrade-in-arms (RJ Hilgers and Joe Roberts) called, “Advanced Blogging Strategies.”
The presentation content in PowerPoint form WAS intended to be a fire hose – too much stuff crammed into too small of a time window. For all of the positive feedback that said, “Good presentation. You went through that way too fast, though” I will acknowledge that the point was to cram a bunch of tips in so a very diverse audience could walk away with at least one thing they didn’t know.
That’s the value I get from seminars – I’m not into philosophical conversations about issues that can’t be solved. I’m into, “tell me something I didn’t know fifteen minutes ago.”
I hope we hit the mark. For those interested, the presentation is below.