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Gary V at the Inertia Direct Symposium

Gary Vaynerchuk spoke at Inertia's Direct Symposium last Friday - part of a Customer Appreciation weekend that included a party and golf.
First. let me say that we LOVE Gary here at Wine Giques headquarters. In fact, I made the mistake of thinking that Pierce Carson was looking for Gary V when he was looking for Gary McGuire. My BAD. But, Gary V, being the magnanimous person that he is - well, he thought he had reached OPRAH status. Gary, with me you definitely have.
Okay - enough massaging of egos and small talk. If you have not heard Gary speak in public, you have not been to church.
As any Vayniac (followers of Gary) knows, Gary brings the THUNDER. He admonishes and chides but offers encouragement and redemption. He is inspirational in a way that only believers (and good speakers) can be. Most of all, Gary is the real deal. He practices what he preaches. Oh... and he never sleeps.
Thanks, Gary, I am starting my week renewed.

Wine Goes Social

Still in a rut of too much wine consumption and not enough posting, but thank goodness the blogosphere made my job easy for me today.  (No, no one's invented virtual wine yet, but give us time . . . )

Mashable has a great article on wine resources on the web.  Ranges from tasting notes for buying to finding stores to just plain old good writing and videoblogging.  If Suenarita and I were working a little harder, we could have made the list.  Guess we'll have to make it one of our goals for 2009.

Worlds Collide . . .

So, the many pieces of my world came together today in a videoblog.  See, I work for a Web 2.0 company.  And although it's not the one that hosts WLTV, we do host Rocketboom.  I guess I never thought I'd see the day when the wine tastin' and the videobloggin' would all come together in one place.  Wine 2.0, I guess.