Monday, March 16 2009

It's a Major Award!

I hope it's got compact fluorescent garters . . .

You could have knocked me over with the weather. I got an email from the marketing folks this morning congratulating me, and while it took a solid ten minutes to figure out why, I couldn't be more pleased, or more impressed the the company I'm keeping: Tim's Wine Blog declared one of the top 5 business blogs in Vancouver.

They say:

We love this blog because it does exactly what a company blog is supposed to do – show passion about the industry and make a connection with the people behind it. Blogging about "Winexpert products and the company, but also anything else fermenty." Tim's post are highly personal and engaging. If you are a bit of a wino, you really can't miss this one.

Wow! The other blogs they quote, including 6S and Vancity are very impressive blogs by some high-powered companies, which leaves me a little bedazzled--they like me, they really, really like me!

Actually, the credit needs some spreading here. When we decided to do a company blog I was a strong advocate of the transparency movement (essentially, you talk about everything, not just marketing and promotion driven news, and let the chips fall where they may) and I wanted to open it up to lifestyle ideas and give a sort of 'human face' snapshot of the company. Since I tend to get most of the media and retailer/consumer attention at Winexpert, it seemed logical to just talk about whatever was going on in my little corner.

So it's really the boss people who took a leap of faith that a blog about whatever occurred to me that day would be a good thing, and gave it all the go ahead that deserve the kudos. No way I'd let a goofball like me write whatever he wanted for my company!

But thanks to Smart Savvy for their kind words. Now I really have to get back to blogging, and then catch up on some real work: conferences are coming!

Posted by Tim AT 11:25PM

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