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Oregon Wine & Food Experiences - A Tour of Willamette Valley Italian Wines

My wife and I spent a recent Saturday the best way we know how: tasting wine. Our friend Candice happens to be a wine expert, having spent many years in the business and is now in the process of launching her own customized Oregon wine & dining tour business. We initiated the process […]

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Anvil’s Whiskey Tasting at Paddy’s Irish Bar & Grill

For search engine marketing firm, Anvil Media’s quarterly field trip, we ventured to Paddy’s Bar & Grill in downtown Portland Oregon for a whiskey tasting. Proprietor Gregg Schillinger took us through the Irish whiskey & scotch distillation process, and we sampled 8 bottles of scotch, whiskey & bourbon from around the world. The flavors […]

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Seth Godin & No Business Model

Earlier today I was reaching out to a variety of potential speakers for SEMpdx SearchFest 2008 and the most amazing thing happened. I fired off emails to top tier experts like Matt Cutts, John Battelle, Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin, not expecting to hear back from any of them (kudos to Matt Cutts for […]

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inVerge: The Interactive Convergence Conference Comes to Portland Oregon in September

I’m looking forward to attending inVerge, Steve Gehlen’s latest event. Also the founder of Internet Strategy Forum Executive Summit, he’s known for producing cutting-edge events.
According to the Web site, inVerge 2007: the interactive convergence conference, is an immersive multi-disciplinary conference… that focuses on the invergence of media platforms, online + offline, […]

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Living the Dreamlife

I recently took my team on Anvil Media’s quarterly field trip. This time around instead of museums, golf or brewery tours, we elected to take advantage of our corporate membership to Dreamlife Powersports. The corporate membership gives us points (like a timeshare condo) towards a variety of RVs, Boats, ATVs, Snowmobiles, and Waverunners. […]