Daily Archives: August 28, 2009

The NYC Wine Report, a trusted voice in the international wine community for unbiased wine reviews and a local source for what wines to buy, how much to pay, and where to get them in NYC, announces the launch of the New York City Wine Club in partnership with Yorkshire Wines and Spirits.

Each month members of the New York City Wine Club will receive two of the six wines recommended by the www.NYCWineReport.com. In addition to saving up to 25% off the retail price, the wines are hand selected by a professional Sommelier based on quality at a reasonable price around $20 retail. Membership is open to wine lovers in over 30 states and delivery is free to members in New York City.

There are three wine packages available online at www.NewYorkCityWineClub.com to suit different tastes. When signing up members choose to receive all red wines, all white or a blend based on season. According to Greg Loeffelholz, Managing Partner of Metropolitan Vintners, LLC, “Whether you are a wine aficionado, lifelong oenophile or a novice trying to expand your wine palette, joining the NYC Wine Club is a great way to taste new wines, share your opinions and learn from others.”

In order to allow its members to share their opinions, the New York City Wine Club is also engaging social media sources like Facebook and Twitter. After tasting their wines each month NYC Wine Club members can exchange comments and find out what others are saying on Facebook.com/NYCWine and Twitter.com/NYCWineReport. The NYC Wine Club Facebook page already boasts over 500 members and is currently adding more than 10 new members every day.

Yorkshire Wines and Spirits has been serving the Upper East Side of Manhattan for over 25 years, but had not launched its own wine club during that time. “We are very excited about launching the New York City Wine Club with Metropolitan Vintners and www.NYCWine.com”, said Sam Choi, President of Yorkshire Wines & Spirits. “I think this will be a great program for our current clientele and will allow Yorkshire Wines a unique opportunity to reach new customers in other parts of Manhattan and across the United States.”

PitchEngine,the leading American PR and online marketing tool, has signed on as a media partner for the Twitter documentary Twittamentary, an to be directed by Singaporean filmmaker Siok Siok Tan.

PitchEngine provides access to over 200,000 journalists and media contacts, putting information, product or business in front of millions of potential customers.All the news releases is routinely indexed by Google news, Yandex, Naver and Baidu news.

Lonnie Hodge, CMF director, said, “This is a match made in social media heaven, a twitter documentary being produced by the world’s cutting edge social media press release service.”

PitchEngine is sending out news releases and updates about the upcoming Twitter documentary and also providing social media insights and strategies for the film.

Twittamentary is still inviting contributions from Twitter users. The movie website is a crowdsourced, interactive platform for Twitter users to share their stories, contribute ideas and even add videos to enrich documentary content. So far the website has received enthusiastic attention and world-wide participation. There are over forty stories contributed by people from around the globe sharing their twitter stories on a broad array of topics from business to friends, travel to languages.

Siok Siok Tan, director of Twittamentary, says, “The most fun and challenging aspect of this project would be to select the most fascinating stories from all these great stories.”

Earlier this week Twittamentary confirmed world top blog ReadWriteWeb as a media partner.So far the documentary has already confirmed ReadWriteWeb, PitchEngine, CFM, Open Web Asia and Electric Brain as partners and is looking forward to announcing more partners in the weeks to come. If you are interested, please drop a note via Twitter to @twittamentary or @sioksiok.

MetraTech Corp. (http://www.metratech.com/), the charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has announced that it is now enabling customers, partners, journalists, analysts and the industry at large to keep up-to-date in real-time with news and views via its new Facebook page. The page can be located via the social networking page: http://www.metratech.com/NewsEvents/SocialNetworkingBlogs.aspx
Facebook is a hugely influential social networking website across the globe. Its mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, colleagues, information; share links, photos and videos; and learn more about the people they meet and companies they do business with.

MetraTech’s Facebook page will include news, articles, whitepapers, discussions, photos and videos related to company activities. Readers are invited to contribute their own opinions and observations on the site. To start following MetraTech via Facebook, simply go to the link above and click follow, or join Facebook and search for MetraTech.

“We understand the power of engaging in open communication within social networks,” said Vladimir Mitrasinovic, executive vice president, sales & marketing, MetraTech Corp. “Facebook is a wildly successful social network and we are looking forward to participating within the community and taking part in dialogs about billing, customer care and the importance of dynamic business models.”

Earlier this year, MetraTech launched a blog and a Twitter presence. Facebook continues the company’s commitment to social networking.

About MetraTech

MetraTech Corp. offers a new approach to charging, billing, settlement and customer care enabling organizations to embrace change without compromise. MetraNet, our flagship product, is unique in its ability to automate business processes and business models that address rapidly changing, complex or radical business strategies across any industry for an unlimited number of services. MetraNet is deployed globally, enabling diverse customers to build innovative and successful business models, securely collect revenue, and manage their entire customer lifecycle in some 12 languages, 26 currencies and 90 countries. MetraTech offers a variety of delivery options ranging from licensing to outsourcing.

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