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,

1. Who are you? My name is Viktoria Egger. I am the creator of Modeltalk, a blog about models and fashion for german speaking countries and the blogger of „Fashion Air Trip“, a small blog I started some months ago about fashion in different cities. During my study in Economics and working in several creative companies I have found myself fascinated by fashion & photography as well as a huge interest in Online & Social Media Marketing. Working some times

After 2 successful ‘Fashion Blog Lunches’ with 2 great designers (September 2010 and January 2011) Maria Ratzinger of Stylekingdom and Viktoria Egger of Modeltalk confronted us with a great designer: Eva Poleschinski with her label ep_anoui for April 2011. The ‘Fashion Blog Lunch’ took place on April 9th@The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel and again was a great success! After the lunch at the restaurant at eight all participants ‘disappeared’ into the ‘Ring Suite’ and Eva Poleschinski had the chance

In September 2010 we started with a new initiative called ‘Fashion Blogger Lunch’ at The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel. The idea was brought to us by Maria Ratzinger from ‘Stylekingdom‘ and Viktoria Egger from ‘Modeltalk‘. The 1st lunch was more or less part of our cooperation with the MQ Vienna Fashion Week 2010 and turned out to be very successfull, logically we decided to also have some ‘fashion-dedicated’ lunches in 2011. The 2nd lunch took place on January 15th,

Look at every 1st row at a fashion show and what do you see? Stars, fashion journalists, fashion purchasers. Yet the internet is about to change, no revolutionize this industry. Fashion never was that close to the individual consumer as today, where tools like laptop, mobile applications or iPad give ‘fashionistas’ the opportunity to immediately distribute text, images and fashion movies throughout the web. Online auctions, movies on Youtube, images on flickr, trading via eBay, online shops, a booming part

1. Who are you? My name is Bart van Poll. With my wife Sanne, I founded Spotted by Locals – a cityblog network by locals in 23 cities in Europe in 2008. 2. What do you like about what you do? Traveling! Our passion for travel was the reason we started this. In every city we go, we meet many interesting locals who are interested in writing for us. Meeting people with a passion for their city is so much

1. Who are you? “I am who I am” said Gloria Gaynor. But I guess in this case I am Stefan Siegel, one of the founders of NOT JUST A LABEL.com. 2. What do you like about what you do? No one tells me what to do, except our bank manager. Being an entrepreneur has many advantages, it is very fulfilling and satisfactory to achieve success based on your own ideas. 3. What don’t you like about what you do?

By Liz Craig When hoteliers and internet marketing folks start to discuss the value of a hotel blog, you hear lots of tech talk about visibility in search engines, the importance of social networks and so on. All of which is true. But it misses the point which is at the heart of hospitality. Blogs are an opportunity to have a conversation with a customer, to express the property’s personality and convey a passion for interests associated with the hotel’s

1. Who are you? My name is Jessie de Haan and I am responsible for DiningCity, your online dining guide, in Vienna. 2. What do you like about what you do? I like to create additional benefits and more reservations for good restaurants on the one hand and serve visitors of DiningCity Vienna on the other. Contact to other people with the same enterpreneurial spirit is something I enjoy in particular. 3. What don’t you like about what you do?

Vered Carmel from busyboo.com, a design style blog, met with Carl-Peter Echtermeijer. Read the interview on busyboo.com