Wine Institute Chooses Socious

Association of over 1000 Wineries to use Socious Communication Suite

Gilbert, AZ May 24, 2007- Socious is proud to announce that Wine Institute has chosen to manage their membership communications with Socious.

Wine Institute is the largest trade association for California wine representing more than 1000 wineries and affiliated businesses from the beautiful and diverse wine regions throughout the state of California.

‘We are very proud to have had Wine Institute choose us to run their membership communications. They are a very well-run group and I know that we will be able to compliment their efforts in helping members communicate and collaborate.’ said Paul Schneider SVP of Business Development at Socious.

"The integration we are doing to their existing membership database shows how we can help associations leverage the investment they have made in these systems to extend into communication and collaboration with members on their website," said Steve Balthazor, SVP of Information Technology at Socious.

”Socious has been a pleasure to work with in the beginning process of development,” said Chris Mears, IT Manager at Wine Institute. “We chose Socious based on their fantastic pricing, knowledgeable engineers, and current customer testimonials. We look forward to the continued partnership.”

Socious is currently developing sites for other customers that will interface with their AMS and legacy systems. They anticipate that the ability to leverage the investment that an association has made in their AMS into the online community will help to continue growth into the future.

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Media Contacts:
Paul Schneider
SOCIOUS, Inc.
(602) 734-5353
pschneider@socious.com