BatchBlue Gives You the Shirts on Your Backs

• Posted May 6th, 2009
• By Michelle Riggen-Ransom (bio)
• Filed under: Community

Since we saw so many nice pictures of folks using the BatchBlue holiday tumblers, we thought we’d do a round-up of “spotted in the wild” pictures of folks wearing their fancy new BatchBook: the Social CRM t-shirts.

Our good friend TJ Sonderman (@sondernagle) had the inspiration for the t-shirts we gave out at SXSW this year. Since we’d recently launched a “social media” SuperTag that can pull feeds from Twitter, flickr, delicious, blogs etc. into your BatchBook account, he thought it would be cool to design a shirt that allowed people to write their Twitter handles on it. We took the concept to Adam (@adarowski), our Designer Extraordinaire and the rest is SXSW history!

Here’s a bunch of folks wearing their Twitter handles with pride. Pictured left to right are Alex de Carvalho (@alexdc), Davide DiCillo (@davidedicillo), Shashi Bellamkonda (@shashib), Betsy McDonald (@splashet), and Pamela O’Hara (@pmohara). Photo via Shashi’s flickrstream

We brought shirts to the SXSW Blogger’s Lounge, where we were mobbed by the folks wanting to get their hands on a t-shirt! Here I am (wearing a Social CRM t-shirt) and carefully writing out Twitter handles for the Twitterati. Photo by Alexdesigns

There was a reason why we helped with Twitter handles. Writing anything in a Sharpie is quite a commitment! Here, Jennifer Van Grove from Mashable shows her first attempt at her Twitter handle, which is actually @jbruin. Don’t worry, we gave her another one

And OMG it’s @scoutsprout! Everyone’s favorite canine contact manager! You know he uses BatchBook to keep track of who goes to which dog park, what store has the best doggie treats etc. How else does a busy urban dog keep his business straight?

Here’s one of my Top 5 fave Twitterers of all time Colleen Wainwright (@communicatrix) customizing her shirt using Pam O’Hara’s back, while Saul Colt (@saulcolt) Tweets about it. So meta it’s mighty!

UPDATE: The lovely Jane Porricelli has a new t-shirt for running and Tweeting.

UPDATE: We got one more from our good friend Steve Malloy (@sophware). This is the first photo that includes the entire family!

You’re looking good out there, folks. If anyone else has got a picture they’d like to share, send it in to info@batchblue.com and we’ll add you to the gallery of gorgeousness!