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Interactive wine tasting

30 Jul 2009
TwitCam Wine Tasting

TwitCam Wine Tasting

I was playing with a new service on twitter call TwitCam that allows you to create a video broadcast and then let people know, and chat, via Twitter.

It was fun broadcasting a wine tasting LIVE.

My first video was meant only as a response to a question, but it encouraged some feedback from others who tried to interact, so I thought I would do another and ask for interaction. I decided to run a wine tasting, not as a “presentation” (as most wine videos are), but as an interactive event, getting guesses on the wine from participants – a double blind tasting*.

The results can now be seen on the archived video here (or click on the image). I am not embedding it here as it starts playing automatically, which can get annoying.

We are only just starting to explore the possibilities of  bringing together different services such as twitter, blogging, video and audio. This is what can make communication and learning fun. Not just for wine, but in many fields. It is not a lecture, but a way to reach out to a lot more people around the globe and make friends.

If you participated or left comments later, thank you so much! I had great fun. So much so I’m planning on doing it again next week.

See you Thursday, 6th of August at 16:00 UK time (please check what that would be for you).

* a tasting where one person has to guess the wine based only from another person’s notes – who themselves doesn’t know what the wine is. Except I did. Hard to hide it from yourself really.

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  • What an excellent idea! This is exciting i'm going to try and set up my own interactive wine tasting event. I'm going to have to do a dry run first as i'm not too sure on the technology.
  • Hey Rob, great stuff! See what I miss when I go off line for a couple of days!!! You've inspired me to do one of these in the near future. I would love to join you next thursday but unfortunately I will be in Covent Garden flogging prosecco and smoked salmon with eatlikeagirl but definitely the next one! Cheers, D
  • I was glad I managed to join in on this one and it's a really fun idea :)

    I think the only thing missing was to let us know if you were enjoying the wine and would recommend it to others.

    It seems fairly hard to guess a wine from a description but getting more of a feel for how much you were enjoying it (or not!) would be good.
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