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As you may have heard, we’re hard at work developing an iphone app for BatchBook. This is something we’re very excited about and in preparation for the big event, we’ve asked two local filmmakers to help us get the word out.
Meet Ethan and Dylan, eight-year old twins with a passion for all things movie-related. The boys, sons of BatchBook customer and BatchBlue friend Anisa Raoof from kidoinfo.com, write about movies as Flick and Flack on their blog FlickFlackMovieTalk.com. They also recently completed a week of film camp at the very cool Kid’s Eye Summer Filmmaking Camp, and their directorial debut (complete with a walk down the red carpet!) screened this past weekend at the University of Rhode Island.
We’re proud to support these local, up and coming filmmakers and look forward to seeing what they come up with to showcase the awesomeness that will be the BatchBook iphone app.
In the meantime, we’re pleased to introduce you to Flick & Flack as they enjoy lunch from Mad Ernie’s Cafe in lovely Wayland Square!
BatchBlue interviews Flick & Flack from Michelle Riggen-Ransom on Vimeo.
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Tags: batchbook, Community, iphone, marketing
Some big improvements to Search to announce. We recently moved to new search servers and they’re providing much faster searches. In addtion to this upgrade, we’ve also added two new features:
- Record Not Communicated With: Now you can do specific time based searches to see whom you have not been in contact with. Very handy for keeping in touch with folks. This field accepts natural language input like ‘7 days ago’ which is nice for creating reports as the date does not have to be static.
- “Is Empty”: This is probably our #1 feature request of all time. People have always wanted an ablility to see what records have no email address, what records do not yet have their supertag info filled out. Now you have it! In the advanced search dropdown you will now see:
Just select the ‘is empty’ filter with no value and BatchBook will bring back any records with blank info for that field. A really nice way to make sure the data you need is on the contacts important to you.
With these changes, BatchBook Search just became a lot more powerful. We hope you get some good use out of it!
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Tags: batchbook, search
We have been loving the Flowtown integration and have been looking for more ways to leverage the information we get back from Flowtown in BatchBook.
We’ve received some ideas from Twitter as well as a very thoughtful blog post from our customer Hugh Macken. They all agreed on one thing: Add Klout!
Klout, for those who don’t know, is a great tool to measure a persons influence on the social web. Influence is measured on many different fronts including followers, friends, total retweets, etc. You receive a Klout score from 1-100 with 100 meaning you basically rule the social web.
Flowtown gives us this score but until today we were not displaying it. Now, if you are using the Flowtown integration, we populate the score into your social media supertag:
Yeah my score is pretty low…thank you Mom for following me though!
We import the score as a number field so using BatchBook reports you can search for folks with a Klout score greater than, less than or equal to. You can create lists targeted based on Klout score which can be very powerful.
We’re also pulling in job title information from Flowtown if the contact does not have a existing title on their contact record. Let us know what else you would like to see out of this integration — we’re listening!
So there you have it, a small addition to BatchBook but something we think you will find very useful. And you’re welcome, @tsondermann.
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Tags: batchbook, flowtown, marketing, social crm, Social Media
The latest cool little feature we snuck into BatchBook has been a pet project of mine for a while. So much so that I get to be the one to announce it!
Have you ever been working in BatchBook and thought “Oh, I’d love to send someone this person’s contact information”? Recently, I had an editor friend looking for a freelance writer for a project. I clicked on my “writer” tag in BatchBook, took a quick look at the resultant list and found someone I thought would be perfect for the job. But I had no way to send that person’s information from BatchBook, so I had to cut and paste everything into a separate email. Kind of a bummer since all the info my friend needed (name, email and street address, phone number) was right there on the contact detail page.
Thanks to some back-end wizardry, you can now send a person’s contact information directly from BatchBook just by clicking on this last little icon on the Contact detail toolbar:
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Once you click, just add the recipient’s email address to the drop-down bar and the vcard information is zipped off to your friend. This is also great for those times when you want to make a virtual introduction between two folks. With this new feature, you’re off and networking in no time. It’s just a quick little thing that adds up to a bit of a time-saver, which is always nice.
A big thanks to the BatchBlue tech team for making my BatchBook dream a reality! Now, who in my network needs an introduction to whom…?
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Tags: batchbook, contact management, usability
Another week and another integration that we think you are going to love. Tungle is a very cool service that eases the problems caused by trying to scheduling meetings on busy calendars. Coordinating meetings with others, as well a letting others know your availability, has never been easier thanks to Tungle.
BatchBook is excited to launch the first step in our integration with Tungle via the Tungle scheduling widget. After you turn it on via the Sync and Integrations page, you will see a Tungle link at the bottom of the contact information section:
Just click the ‘Schedule a meeting with me via Tungle’ and we use the primary address to look up the contacts calendar on Tungle. If we find a match, you’ll be able to schedule a meeting when that contact has free time. If they are not already a user, they will be invited to join Tungle and can accept your meeting via email. Really quick and easy to create meetings with anyone in your BatchBook account.
This integration is off by default but just head into your Sync & Integrations section to turn it on for all contacts.
This is just the first step in our relationship with Tungle. Currently, we’re not saving the meeting to BatchBook but are working with Tungle to find the best way to make that happen. Look for this feature to be added soon.
We’re really happy with this integration and we hope our users love it as well. Tungle is a great product and we are pleased to bring them into the BatchBook partner family.
-sean
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Tags: batchbook, feature, integration, meeting scheduling, Partners, tungle
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