Comments on: OpenWine: The Facebook of Wine? http://winecast.net/2008/02/18/openwine-the-facebook-of-wine/ A wine podcast and blog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:38:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John Martin http://winecast.net/2008/02/18/openwine-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56539 John Martin Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:00:37 +0000 http://winecast.net/2008/02/18/openwine-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56539 OpenWine seems to be moving along pretty well. Today (April 4 2008, about two months after the site launched) there are 662 members and 38 groups. Hopefully this growth trend will continue and accelerate. OpenWine seems to be moving along pretty well. Today (April 4 2008, about two months after the site launched) there are 662 members and 38 groups.

Hopefully this growth trend will continue and accelerate.

]]> By: Joel http://winecast.net/2008/02/18/openwine-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56253 Joel Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:50:23 +0000 http://winecast.net/2008/02/18/openwine-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56253 Thanks for the post Tim. We knew there was interest but the response has been just tremendous. This is basically going to be "Consortium2.0" - its a community of like-minded individuals can interact and do whatever they want in this dedicated wine social network with some organized industry efforts that the board members/admins will put together. In an old school industry consortium there is a community and meetings, etc... and a community that gets together to solve problems. For "wine2.0" we thought we'd work on an industry consortium in a 2.0 flare - create an engaged and lively community and just facilitate organizing around particular ideas for the benefit of the entire industry. Making it a sort of dedicated wine community interacting and connecting with each other but also with an industry purpose (there is a charter up there with a comments section if anyone wants to comment)...Consortium2.0... Robert McIntosh made a good point, this is an old idea thats oddly become new again - its almost an online Guild. At any rate, this is rather than having just a Facebook group a full-blown community (RSS feeds and all). In fact, the "Groups" function BETTER than Facebook in that they include dedicated forums and other functions (including RSS and email updates). 100+ in the first day...really a lively community already! Thanks for the post Tim. We knew there was interest but the response has been just tremendous.

This is basically going to be “Consortium2.0″ - its a community of like-minded individuals can interact and do whatever they want in this dedicated wine social network with some organized industry efforts that the board members/admins will put together.

In an old school industry consortium there is a community and meetings, etc… and a community that gets together to solve problems. For “wine2.0″ we thought we’d work on an industry consortium in a 2.0 flare - create an engaged and lively community and just facilitate organizing around particular ideas for the benefit of the entire industry. Making it a sort of dedicated wine community interacting and connecting with each other but also with an industry purpose (there is a charter up there with a comments section if anyone wants to comment)…Consortium2.0…

Robert McIntosh made a good point, this is an old idea thats oddly become new again - its almost an online Guild.

At any rate, this is rather than having just a Facebook group a full-blown community (RSS feeds and all). In fact, the “Groups” function BETTER than Facebook in that they include dedicated forums and other functions (including RSS and email updates).

100+ in the first day…really a lively community already!

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