Hospitality…Above and Beyond
These are people who care, they are great at what they do and are down right passionate about it. It is hospitality. And it is the greatest investment any business can make in customer loyalty. On...
View Articlefacebook: fan or fail?
I have been on facebook for a while…maybe a year or two. Several friends dragged me after I had already spent time assembling a MySpace page…also a year or two ago. At first it seemed like a great...
View ArticleAdria Richards: Woman in Technology
I struggled with who to write about ever since I signed up for this pledge. Knowing how noteworthy and valuable this series would be, I had to get it right. Thanks to my addiction to political news...
View ArticleSociology x Social Media
So much of the Web 2.0 Expo conversation about Social Media will be obvious to blog readers. But what is so interesting and invaluable for long term adoption is that multiple sciences are brought...
View ArticleSpring: Bud Break and Wine Love
If you haven’t met Andy Mitchell, he is a tremendous human and amazing steward of the vineyards at Hahn Vineyards. Officially, he is the Director of Vineyard Operations. He is the reason the...
View ArticleGet Your Hands Dirty: Bloggers Planting Forum
IF you thought you knew what the Bloggers Tasting Forums were all about, you may be surprised by the next in a series of Blogger/Winery meet ups. Next month Hahn Estates is dedicating approximately...
View ArticleDirtyGoode: California Wine Labs Experiment
Because he can. Because he does. And because he has mad Web 2.0, Social Media and interpersonal skills: Vote For the DirtySouthWine Looking forward to this wine meets social media in practice...
View ArticleBloggers Planting Forum
An extraordinary Saturday in May in the Santa Lucia Highlands last weekend yielded one delicious afternoon. With a dozen or so wine and food bloggers, Hahn Estates was the first winery to establish...
View ArticleA Summer of Social Media in Wine
Giant strides are very exciting. In our industry, a slow, seasonally affected, growing, pressing and aging pace sometimes takes over and causes our progress to lag a bit behind faster moving...
View ArticleAutomated Love? Connect Overload!
Now that social media in wine and hospitality seems mainstream, facebook fan pages are de rigeur, and the twitter, flickr, fb, digg, etc. logos are plastered everywhere, there’s something significant...
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