Wine Communicators bring Rick Bakas to Australia
Industry body Wine Communicators of Australia will host social media guru Rick Bakas – to present a series of lectures and social media events across Australia.
The announcement:
Wine Communicators of Australia (WCA) is thrilled to announce the impending visit to Australia of internationally-renowned social media guru Rick Bakas from Bakas Media (www.bakasmedia.com). WCA will host Bakas for the 2011 Annual Lecture Series.
Bakas is one of the world’s foremost social media experts and is a leader in wine communications in the digital age. He is the first Director of Social Media in the wine industry and continues to shape new ideas and concepts that connect wineries to new consumers by harnessing digital communications. He is a prominent author and certified sommelier, and is known as a leading authority in building brands and communities online. His global reach will mean this is one of Australia’s most significant tours by a social media influencer and strategist.
Great news to hear that bakas “the social media guru” is visiting Australia to share his ideas and concepts which can boost up the industry. Good luck for him and wishing that his tour will be a grand success.
Rick Bakas hits Oz wine country in April! You can participate from anywhere in the world, pull out your favourite regional wines and get tasting and tweeting!
Follow @WineComAust @rickbakas @radvine and don’t forget to include these tags in your tweets: #WCATT #hunterwine #yarrawine #barossawine #mclarenvale #vicwine #mriverwine
I met Rick at a past Wine Bloggers Conference in Santa Rosa, California, where we all were gathered to learn the ins and outs of social networking for wineries and wine geeks.
I hope Rick’s next trip will bring him to Portugal to show more Portuguese wineries how to get involved with interacting with their wine fans via the social networking tools!
Our winery, Cortes de Cima, in Alentejo, Southern Portugal has been blogging, tweeting and on facebook for many years, and we don’t look back! Cheers!
Spaces booking out quickly for the RIck Bakas tour. Anyone can come along – great chance to meet Rick and try some amazing wines. Will definitely be the largest co-ordinated wine social media initiative in Australia.
Book at http://www.winecommunicators.com.au or follow
@Rickbakas, @mastermindtb @winecomaust for regular updates.
A great way to learn from one of the best and have a bit of fun.
Nice work making it happen, Trish. I want to meet as many people as possible during this visit and stay connected after it’s over.
@Carrie – second half of the year is open as of now. Might be in Croatia in May, Germany and Spain in September. Please contact me to discuss Portugal.