I just wanted to say a quick Merry Christmas and otherwise Happy Holidays to all those who don’t celebrate Christmas!
The Academic Wino is on vacation for a couple days, but will have all new posts starting on Friday!
I hope your holidays were filled with good wine, good friends and family, and happy memories!
I’ll leave you with a picture of Becca (The Academic Wino, herself) and her baby niece during Christmas!
Becca The Academic Wino with her baby niece on Christmas 2012.
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Hello, readers!
I am writing this brief post to call out to all those interested in writing or blogging to consider submitting a guest post for The Academic Wino!
My long-term goal for this blog is to post daily with all the research, science, and generally knowledge related to wine the interwebs can handle! However, my current life situation only allows me to post a couple of times per week! That’s where you come in….
I’m looking for guest writers/bloggers to help fill in the holes throughout the week that I can not currently fill for one reason or another. I accept a wide
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variety of topics, as long as they are related to wine (or grapes) and tied to academics in one way, shape, or form.
What was your favorite subject in high school or college? In what way can you tie that subject in with wine? Once you come up with an idea, shoot me the pitch and there’s a good chance you could end up with a post on The Academic Wino!
You don’t have to be a wine writer or wine blogger to write for me, but your article does need to be related to wine or grapes in some way.
All articles must been well researched, well written, well edited, and 100% unique (cannot be found on any other site).
This is NOT a call for staff writers, as unfortunately, I can’t pay anyone right now. I’m looking for someone to contribute a post or two every so often (or however many time they want, understanding that it’s unpaid).
If you are interested in writing guest posts for The Academic Wino, please contact me at: becca@academicwino.com
I’m looking forward to reading your ideas!
Cheers!
I reserve the right to reject any article or any links. I have a relatively strict advertising policy, so I will be keeping a hawks’ eye out for those. Personal blogs and online CVs/portfolios are typically don’t fall under the advertising policy, but I reserve the right to deny any links I deem inappropriate.
Also, you will not be paid for these posts, sorry!
Hi everyone!
You may have noticed that The Academic Wino has undergone a face lift! We’re in the process of converting the blog from Blogger to WordPress, in order to be more streamlined, give you faster load times, and overall improve the blogging and reading experience!
IMPORTANT: As a result of this conversion, there will likely be some service interruption on the site. It takes about 24-72 hours for the conversion to be complete, so you may run into 404 Errors when trying to access certain posts/pages.
Please be patient while we complete this transition.
I hope you will continue to enjoy reading The Academic Wino!
Cheers!
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While I don’t have researched post for you to share today, I did want to let you all know about a survey for wine blog readers currently going on. Well, it is currently active until tomorrow, September 1st, as that date is the deadline for all surveys to be completed.
You may or may not recall from my Summary of the Wine Bloggers Conference Part II, there is an ongoing study investigating the motivations of blog creators as well as the perceptions and motivations of blog readers. The researchers contacted hundreds of bloggers and blog readers and asked them to fill out a survey was many questions aimed at answering the aforementioned questions. The preliminary results of this study have found a few important factors that most influence wine bloggers, however it is not let clear how blog readers place value and importance on specific blog characteristics.
That being said, the research team is actively recruiting blog readers to complete the survey, as the sample size is not yet large enough to perform statistical analysis on the results.
You have until tomorrow, September 1st, to fill out this survey. It shouldn’t take you more than 15 minutes tops.
Simply by completing the survey, you are entered into a drawing to have the chance to win $200 worth of wine from your favorite wine store!
Here is the link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Oregon2012
Please complete this survey ASAP, and tell them that The Academic Wino sent you!
Cheers!
