first step for sunchips, giant leap for the industry.
You can only get Media Post articles if you subscribe to them, so I took an excerpt from SunChips Rolling Out Compostable Package written by Karl Greenberg that I read this morning about SunChips takes a huge step in the greening of product packaging. Snack brand SunChips, a division of PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay, likes its packaging [...]
Continue reading...melon shooters & eye shadow in green valley.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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This past Sunday, I hopped into my semi-gas friendly Honda Civic with three of my girls and trekked through the Sebastopol Farmer’s Market to make my way through West County. Our mission was to Celebrate Earth Day in Green Valley. Yes, the official Earth Day is this Wednesday, but who does a wine tasting [...]
Continue reading...ttl @ estate.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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Last night was the Twitter Taste Live Rhone event, put on by the Hospice du Rhône, the World’s Largest International Celebration of Rhône Variety Wines and Sondra at Estate, an amazing new Italian restaurant in Sonoma, Ca. Toting itself as the largest #ttl event that has taken place, the party at ESTATE brought in a huge [...]
Continue reading...note from tom (myspace).
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Hey all, Today marks the launch of MySpace Local which is a great place to check out local businesses in your neighborhood. You can rate, review, and share your favorite neighborhood venues with friends. We’re launching with two categories today (Restaurants and Bars & Nightlife), but will be adding many more soon. MySpace Local covers every [...]
Continue reading...ben and jerry’s using facebook connect.
Monday, April 13, 2009
This new Facebook format has brought on a abundance of brands jumping into this social network to create Brand Pages… This has it’s positive and negative impacts. The negative being that there are possibility too many choices of brands out there for Facebook users to become “fans” of. The positive part of this is that [...]
Continue reading...the simplicity of chocolate and wine.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
There is a reason that chocolate and wine are a perfect pair. Both are two of my favorite items to consume. Both enhance the flavors of anything that either is paired with. Both start off as a fruit (cacao beans or grapes). Both are products of their environment, and if grown with the proper care, [...]
Continue reading...social media competition in 140.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
My friend Tim (who introduced me to Twitter 2 years ago) jokingly commented that my last posting on my social media competition was way more than 140 characters and thus it was entirely too long for our overworked minds to read. “Great link, but now you’re making me read more than 140 characters… grrrr.” I decided to [...]
Continue reading...my social media competition.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
I just stumbled upon a great social media white paper. The 26 page pdf SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING INDUSTRY REPORT: How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow is written by Michael A. Stelzer of Writing White Papers. The report surveyed over 700 social media marketers, asking them open ended questions about the industry. If you [...]
Continue reading...teen eating disorders and vegetarianism?
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I just read an article in today’s TIME magazine, titled: Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder? that really got under my skin. After reading a blog post on the same article from Emily Brunell of relishments, I was even more irritated about the topic. I became a vegetarian before I hit my teens and [...]
Continue reading...you aren’t a lush if this is what you do for a living.
Monday, April 6, 2009
It is one thing to call yourself a wine blogger and write about various consumer wine tasting events like Barrel Tasting. It is a whole different story to be asked to attend wine blogger specific events and get a self guided tour from the vineyard manager of one of the top wineries in Napa Valley. [...]
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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