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2011 Fourth Annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference (WBC11).

Virginia is Wine Country.
I’m learning about Virginia Wine in preparation for the 2011 Wine Blogger’s Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. If you have never attended a Wine Bloggers Conference, it is about wine bloggers, new media innovators, and wine industry leaders.

This year, the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference is on July 22-24, 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia. This will be the fourth annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference - the premier conference for new media and the wine industry. These Conferences are unique opportunities to learn about and discuss the intersection of wine with the world of new media including blogging, social media, and more.

Learn more or register at: http://winebloggersconference.org/america/
 
Last year I attended the third annual Wine Blogger’s Conference (WBC10) in Walla Walla, Washington. It was a spectacular and educational time. WBC10 is responsible for inspiring me to engage better with my audience by leveraging the social media tools I already had, but under-utilized.
 
Expect to see me posting a variety of information on the Virginia wine industry, its history, climate, wine growing regions and most importantly, Virginia wines.
 
Cheeers!
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