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BatchBlue made the front page of the Providence Journal recently, an event made even more exciting by the fact that we’re playing cornhole in the accompanying picture (sadly, you can’t see it on the online edition. But look! Here are our custom cornhole bags currently touring the country as part of the BarCamp Tour). The story focuses on our humble beginnings as a few frustrated parents trying to balance work life with some brand new babies. If you’ve ever wondered just how many babies, you can read all about it here. Thanks to our friends at the Projo for the nice write-up.
In other local news, our president Pamela was awarded a Business Women’s Award for the Technical Services category award by the Providence Business News. Pamela and her fellow winners will be honored at a luncheon from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on May 5 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Pamela also weighed in a recent eCRM article entitled Ten Common CRM Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – you should check it out if you’re looking for great tips on using a CRM. Congrads to Pam!
You can always check out our latest BatchBlue press over on our press page. And over on the Small Business Web page, you’ll find some articles about what’s happening in Small Business Web news.
But enough about us. It’s time to get back to helping customers, planning our upcoming events and finding cool new stuff to do. Have a great week, everyone!
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Some of us spent last weekend overlooking the Charles River from the beautiful offices of the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, MA.
The occasion? BarCamp Boston. We’re big fans of Camps in general. WordCamp, NewbCamp, PodCamp, Summer Camp.
What’s BarCamp? “… an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.” According to Wikipedia. To us, they’re a great opportunity to spend a day or two with some of the smartest and most creative people we’ve ever met.
Like most unconferences, BarCamps start with a bunch folks putting up post-it notes on topics they’d like to present or discuss. The crowd votes with some checkmarks on the post-its and the topics with the most votes get moved the schedule. Easy peasy. The topics this past weekend included nuclear fission, BBQ, the US Educational System and how to run your business like Genghis Khan ran his empire. You never know what you’re going to get, but you can rest assured that it will be awesome. (more…)
Tags: barcamp, boston, grasshopper, mailchimp, shopify, wufoo
Last week’s trip to Atlanta was a whirlwind of Realtors, Batchbook customers and monkeys (more on that later!). Pamela and I were there to attend the 4th annual ReTech South conference, where Pamela was presenting on panel with some other Small Business Web friends.
The thing that struck me the most about the conference was the great enthusiasm and energy from both attendees and presenters. Pamela and I attended a different real estate conference a few years ago, and I was amazed at how far the industry has come in terms of its adoption of technology in general and social media specifically. Most of the sessions were standing-room only, as panelists discussed ways to use blogs to attract leads, using Facebook to build network and of course, how web applications can help grow their businesses. Plus, you will not meet a nicer, more network group of people than Realtors. These guys are definitely in our wheelhouse!
Here’s some thoughts on the conference from Realtor Jim Duncan, who made a short video while driving home from the conference. Please note: we do not condone videotaping and driving!
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Tags: batchblue, mailchimp, small business
You might remember that we spent a little time in Austin a few weeks ago. In addition to getting to hang out with a ton of Batchbook customers and partners, Michelle sat on a panel with some of our Small Business Web friends: Freshbooks, MailChimp and Formstack. The panel was moderated by Scott McMullan of Google. He’s part of the Google Enterprise group and leads the Google Apps Partners program.
Hold on. Google? Enterprise? Small Business? Yes! Scott has been a champion for small businesses for as long as we can remember and he made a big announcement at the start of the panel: Google Apps have become members of The Small Business Web. And we’re tickled to be in such good company. Google Apps and The Small Business Web share a common set of goals and philosophies. Specifically the the belief that web apps are more valuable when they integrate and work together. We continue to work hard to integrate Google Apps into Batchbook and have some exciting things coming up in the not to distant future that will strengthen those integrations.
The panel itself covered a range of topics from why and how web apps can work together to how small businesses can leverage the power of the web to help their business grow. The folks at SXSW have posted the audio of the panel, go have a listen!
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Tags: google, small business web, snapengage, SXSW
BatchBlue is on the road again, this time heading to Atlanta to attend the Real Estate & Technology Conference & Expo (RETech South). Pamela will be speaking on a panel about The Small Business Web and using cloud services with MailChimp, Expensify and IfByPhone. I’ll be there, too, armed with lots of stickers, shirts and stories and talking to folks about how they’re using Batchbook to manage their real estate contacts. If there was ever a well-connected group of folks, it’s Realtors! And judging from photos of past conferences, they’re fun, too. We like that.
We can’t wait to meet some Realtors doing cool things with technology in the real estate industry. We’ve even re-vamped our Batchbook for Real Estate page and added a new case study so folks can see how one tech-savvy Realtor is using a variety of web-based services to run his real estate agency.
As always, we’re interested in meeting our friends and customers, so if you are going to be there please let us know! We may put together a hosted Drink-up Thursday night – follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/batchblue) for details as they shape up.
Tags: batchblue, batchbook, Community, mailchimp, real estate, realtors
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