Bookmarks for May 9th

These are my links from the past week of blog reading:

• Wine Brands: Wine consumers in the US – Data on U.S. wine consumers presented at the recent Direct to Consumer Symposium in Napa.
• MediaShift . Microblogging Mania::Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News | PBS – Good post about the advantages and disadvantages of Twitter.
• The Fourth Annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium Announces Session Topics – Session topics for July’s Wine Industry Technology Symposium announced.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: SVB Remains Optimistic in ?08 – Summary of Silicon Valley Bank’s annual State of the Wine Industry Report.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: U.S. Getting Tougher for Imports – Sales information about sales for imported wine vs. domestic producers.
• The Cork Board » Blog Archive » Get your (mostly) Napa Valley winery widgets here – A post about how easy it is to create a widget from your blog that can be used to spread the word via social networks like Facebook.
• Twitter 101: Clarifying The Rules For Newbies | SheGeeks – A “Twitter for Newbies” post.
• Where Bloggers Get Their Biggest Levels of Traffic – Chart showing the growth of social media sites as traffic generators for bloggers.
• Social Network Spending to Increase – Interesting statistics about the growth of social network spending based upon a Forrester Research report.
• Blogging connections – OpenWine Consortium – Good blogging overview video posted in the OpenWine Consortium (which everyone in the wine trade should be a member of IMO).
• Project Vino Twitter Wine Tasting – Interesting project in Australia using Twitter to post tasting notes on behalf of a wine brand.