• Media Biz Bloggers, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:35 PM

Media Biz Blogger Steve Rosenbaum recounts the tale of how he scored free tickets to a show from City Winery, a music venue and custom-crush winery in New York City. After posting a video he took of Marshall Crenshaw singing at the venue to Facebook and Twitter, Rosenbaum received an offer via Twitter from @citywinerynyc inviting him back.

If ATN had a free ticket to a show for every social mediaite's tale of warmth and cutomer service over Twitter we could fill the Hollywood Bowl. But Rosenbaum makes a salient point when he relates the gesture to that old political standby, the handshake, remembering how many years ago, Mario Cuomo, then commenting on TV's affect on glad-handing, told him, "Steven, every politician knows this simple truth -- shake a voter's hand and you have a vote for life."

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