We’ve written before about the severe lack of local wineries who’ve sought to tap into the power the blogosphere, so we write this post having seen a ray of hope. It seems that August Briggs Winery, which is located at 333 Silverado Trail in Calistoga, has just launched a blog.
For now, the posts are being penned by Mark Koppen, the winery’s general manager, but he’s promised to involve the rest of the staff as well. It’s clearly early days for the blog, but we’d like to raise a glass and say cheers to the crew at August Briggs for jumping into the blogosphere–we can tell you it’s not so scary and can actually be quite fun!
Check out Brigg’s Big Wine Blog for yourself, we’ll certainly be watching to see where things go from here.
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Another winery starting a blog is indeed great news. However, after checking out the new August Briggs blog I left scratching my head wondering why they’re not using an established blogging platform to host their blog? With no ability to subscribe to an RSS feed, I moved on. “Blogging” without feeds and underlying support for pingbacks and such, is like their blogging on an island.
There are several blogging platforms to choose from, they’ve already done all the hard work, most can be fully branded, and they’re free!
Couldn’t agree more James, hopefully they get the subscription details worked out soon. We’ll give them a bit more time before we move on–at least they’re out there giving it a shot, which is a lot more than most wineries around here can say!
To James and TrevR – Hang in there with us! We’re working with eWinery Solutions on our entire website, and included is a blog platform that is quickly finishing development (I’m hoping to have a totally integrated web solution). It will include an archive and the ability to subscribe – in the meantime, thanks for looking and keep coming back!
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