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  • goode tasting room employees.

    • 19 Jul 2009
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    I never realized how many stupid puns one could use with the word "good"  but I am sure we will hear all of them by the time this is all over. 

    I just left the Murphy-Goode tasting room after an hour of wine tasting and talking to most of the top ten finalists.  Below are some pictures I took with the iphone, but if you really want to see some amazing shots take a look at http://www.areallygoodetrip.com/index.php/photos/ where Adam has posted his images of his "Really Goode Trip" to Healdsburg.  It is great to see my little town through his eyes, and through the eyes of all the other tweets and Facebook updates from almost all of the candidates.

    It is funny, when I posted a Facebook status update today mentioning the free tasting, I had a few comments asking if I had won the "contest."

    Shana Ray will be visiting the Murphy Goode tasting room this afternoon to drink some wine and hang out with the top 10 finalists.... You should come too!! FREE TASTING and entertainment from 3-5.

    Well, first off everyone and their mother would have already known if I had 'won."  I would be screaming all over town about my goode fortune.  Second, I would have had to enter to win.... Damn pesky rules.

    The reasoning I never entered the job search was because I already live here in Healdsburg. My guess is that the Murphy Goode team was looking for someone who could come into the area and into the wine world and see it all from a fresh perspective and tell the world about how amazing it is here.  I already do that everyday.

    The tweets and images from yesterday reaffirmed my guess.   All ten candidates were so excited to see vineyards, their hotel rooms and the Healdsburg square.... I don't have the same "new" excitement about all of it as I did when I first moved here, but I do get excited to see others reaction to my home town.

    I am sure there will be more tweets and pictures to come because I hope to be able to see these awesome individuals again before they leave (as Adam told my mom in the tasting room, "we have been friends for about two weeks now").

    For now, here are some images I took from today's goode tasting.

    Cheers.

    *shana.

    (p.s. that blond lady with me is my mom, she came to harrass the candiates too).

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  • some goode controversy.

    • 15 Jul 2009
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    I just got done watching Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's latest Diggnation video on the Murphy Goode Dream Job and the fact that the MG team decided to NOT place the top vote getter, Martin Sargent, into the top 50 finalists. 

    As a wine snob, yes, I was totally insulted by the white zinfandel drinking in his video (update - the Boone's Farm Watermelon), but that was kinda the point.  He used his social media skills and humorous non-stuffy wino approach to get his friends and followers to vote for his video, thus proving his popularity and obvious need to learn more about wine.  Alex had a great point that even if MG didn't think that he was right for the job that they should have looked at what the "people" wanted and put him into the top 50 anyways.

    "It is all about the power of people when you want to do anything."

    Okay, so Martin didn't make it into the top 50.... Instead a seemingly wine-knowledgeable selection of people made it into the semi-finals and then an even further selection of social media "gurus" and people who already know about wine made it into the finals.  I am not here to debate their choices or what I think about the top 10 (yes, I do have some reservations about some of them, but thankfully I will get to meet all of them this weekend to really form my opinion on who I personally think would be best suited for the job -- because we all judge... Don't pretend you won't be either).

    The thing is that it just shows that MG doesn't really "get" social media, thus, as Alex pointed out, they really need this correspondent to help them into the Web 2.0 world.  But not even acknowledging the top vote getter until the black-lash started, and then to almost insult people who really felt their votes mattered, is just so "anti" social media, that it almost bothers me.  Though, I am happy that in the beginning, MG stated that they didn't know anything about social media and that is why they started this job search in the first place. 

    Now, what I think MG needs to do to smooth over all of this is to apologize.  By simply saying that they messed up, (IMHO) everything will go away and everyone can go back to concentrating on what really matters --- The top 10 candidates and how this job search has helped bring wine social media marketing to the minds of the "everyday" consumer and not just to the wine bloggers.

    These are just some of my thoughts.  This will be a subject of debate during the next few weeks (especially during the Wine Blogging Conference), so I am curious to hear your thoughts....


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    Hello! My name is Shana Ray, a Digital (Social Media) Marketing Director, working with wineries, restaurants & tech.

    My main website can be found at http://shanaray.com but I use this one as my social media/wine/food/music/llama blog and my way to get out my frustrations with the stuffiness that sometimes comes with wine.

    ...and I have red hair and can usually be heard before I am seen.

    I am a partner at Two Five Media and a Digital Media + PR Manager for Collaborize Classroom http://CollaborizeClassroom.com/blog

    .... yup, llamas.

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