1. Who are you? Axel Herrmann, self-employed product-designer and the person behind ajiDesign, which is a design company focusing on culinary themes respectively on cuisine and food related themes. My aim is to design tools or concepts that help to increase the enjoyment of dining or to create something that can be regarded as a materialisation of culinary pleasure. 2. What do you like about what you do? I like the creative diversification and the possibility to meet interesting people with
In October 2011 we met with Alex Obermayr from Tedx Vienna as we preparing the program for the Global Social Business Summit which took place in November 2011 in Vienna. To be honest, Tedx was new to us and as we spoke with Alex we asked him if he would be interested in doing an interview on our blog. Great guy and full with ideas … Tedx came much more closer to us when we interviewed him … Please try
Does the site/blog ‘Viennarama’ just promote the city of Vienna? What is ‘Viennarama’? How did the name come up? A few questions we asked Ms. Hannah Poppenwimmer, the founder of ‘Viennarama’ in a special interview. We came across her blog due to the fact that we researched which sites and blogs do reflect the city of Vienna, its highlights, its events, the ‘Vienna in-crowd’ … read the story … 1. Please try to describe yourself in just 5 words! Determined, enthusiastic,
Adam Groffman of the new travel site www.wimdu.co.uk approached us via mail a couple of weeks ago and asked us if we were interested in a partnership. We looked at this site and asked him if he would also be available for an interview on our blog. His answer was positive … 1. Please try to describe yourself in just 5 words Interesting traveller; social media fan! 2. Tell us about the travel site www.wimdu.co.uk and when it all started…
Sometimes we come across ‚food freaks‘ that also operate a blog … as this does not happen so often we immediately act and invite these bloggers for an interview on our blog. A few weeks ago we discovered Raffaela of the blog ‘culinariumaustriacum’. She worked for Nestlé and spends a lot of time on food … testing, exploring, eating … discovering new trends and of course post these on her blog. We asked her for an interview … read the
Last week we met with Vanessa Gürtler, together with her boyfriend she produces a vodka called Wodka Wanessa. At our Drings Bar we promote and sell over 50 brands but we never came across a brand where we also were able to meet the producer him-/herself … the talks we had were very interesting, and the vodka also, that is why we decided to offer her an interview on our blog. 1. Please try to describe yourself in 10 words!
As usual, like we do nothing else … we came across the website www.stadtkinder.com. This site seemed to be new (it is, it was launched early 2011), we looked at it, found it very interesting and useful, especially for people planning to visit Vienna or those who want to stay updated on highlights, events, parties etcetera. So we met Michael Kamleitner of ‘Stadtkinder’, talked about what we could do together and decided to promote him and the site on our
Beginning of this year we ‘hooked up’ with Michael Bonadies, President and CEO of 21c Museum Hotel, an amazing hotel we discovered as we were searching for some ‘extra-ordinary’ hotels in the US to get featured on our blog. Michael is, according to his questions, someone who really fits to this hotel. 1. Who are you? I’m Michael Bonadies, President and CEO of 21c Museum Hotel. For most of my career I was a partner in New York City’s Myriad
Searching through the web we came across www.yelp.at and discovered that 2 of our hotels were already listed here. Hence we searched further and … got in touch with Andreas Rainer, Community & Marketing Manager of Yelp in Vienna. We invited him for lunch and talked a bit about what Yelp is all about and what cross-marketing opportunities there are for hotels in general via Yelp. It was so interesting that we decided to ask him for an interview on our
Last week we met with Hardy Egger, CEO & owner of Lifestyle Hotels, a hotel platform based in Graz, Austria featuring more than 118 stylish hotels in over 88 hot spots throughout the globe. As we joined Lifestyle Hotels with The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel and Lake´s – my lake hotel & spa we thought it would be a good idea to interview him, as his platform is not just a hotel booking platform like the ones we know
