Wine & Spirits Industry Forum Launches Industry's First Social Network.Wine & Spirits Industry Forum Aims to Become the "MySpace" of the Wine and Spirits Industry. The Website Uses Social Networking See social networking site. social networking - social network to Assist Industry Professionals in Achieving Their Business Goals. NAPA, Calif. -- Wine & Spirits Industry Forum ("WSIF WSIF Web Services Invocation Framework ") has launched the first Social Network for the Wine and Spirits Industry, which enables industry professionals to make new contacts, market their products and services, develop new business opportunities and stay informed of industry news and events. WSIF is a collaborative effort of industry and technology experts who plan to create a global community through business social networking. Membership is free, and open to anyone working in or providing services to the Wine and Spirits Industry. Among the features provided by WSIF are the ability to complete a business profile and read the profiles of others; to send messages to other members and invite them to become contacts; to post commentary, pictures and videos; to list free classifieds and job openings; to create a group for members with common interests to blog blog, short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. ; to use "VisualSpace" to identify members to meet; to read and post news and events; and many other features. "Today's kids live on MySpace and Facebook([R]), and understand the value of social networking" said Donna Prescott, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WSIF. "Business people have begun to recognize the benefits of social networking to their work and careers, and WSIF wants to bring this valuable tool to the Wine & Spirits Industry." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Washington Post, 408 million people used social networks in 2006, and the market is growing at 35 percent per year. Donna Prescott has brought together her backgrounds in wine and spirits and high technology to create WSIF. She was trained at London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust, where she was awarded the Advanced Certificate and is pursuing the Diploma DIPLOMA. An instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned. 2. . She has run an industry focused marketing consultancy. Prior to entering the Wine and Spirits Industry, Prescott worked for several major high technology firms in Silicon Valley, near San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Facebook and MySpace are registered trademarks of Facebook Inc. and News Corporation, respectively. |
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