BatchBlue and BatchBook have been getting some great reviews and other exciting coverage over the past few weeks, so I thought I’d give you the highlights in case you missed any of it on our press page.
Earlier this month, our friend and a man with excellent hair Chris Brogan wrote up a product review of BatchBook on his blog (complete with screenshots and everything!) Here’s an excerpt:
I recommend BatchBook for the list sorting ability, for the tagging and slicing ability, for the Super Tags…and if you have no other form of client relationship management software, this would be a great lightweight tool.
Chris is what they call around these parts “wicked smaht”. We’re thrilled he’s using and liking BatchBook.
Another great guy and a long-time BatchBook user (since alpha, baby!) is Scott Blitstein, who writes over at Web Worker Daily. We love Web Worker Daily since we are all work-at-home Web workers ourselves. Scott wrote up his nice review highlighting our BatchBox email forwarding feature here.
I was personally very excited to be written up by Kiva as a company that is promoting their support of Kiva.org. As I’ve written in the past, we’re big fans of the site and just today were able to help fund four more entrepreneurs through Kiva’s site.
Last but certainly not least, our very own president Pamela O’Hara was just announced as one of Providence’s “40 under 40: The Next Generation of Business Community Leaders”! We’ll be writing a separate post about the award complete with pictures from the celebratory dinner. In the meantime, here’s the official announcement from the Providence Business Journal. Congratulations, Pam!
That’s the round-up. Reading that people like your product and appreciate your company’s efforts really make all the hard work well worth it.
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The Engineers of Tomorrow display their programming trophy
When Pam and I had our first meetings way back in the winter of 2006, even before we had fully fleshed out what our first product was going to be, we talked about what causes we were going to support as a company and in what ways. As a team, we decided that the issues closest to our hearts were promoting technology and education, improving the lives of children, and supporting fellow entrepreneurs.
We were thrilled to learn of kiva.org, which allowed us to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in other countries. We became lenders long before we started charging for our own product. We now get regular updates on our two entrepreneurs, who have since paid back 83% and 50% of their loans respectively! Once the debt is paid off, we can lend it to some other folks. How cool is that?
Over the past year, various members of the BatchBlue team have presented at Johnson & Wales University, the University of Rhode Island, and Rhode Island’s “We Mean Business“, which is an event promote and support local business. In February, we helped sponsor NewBCamp08 in Providence, which was an (un)conference held at University of Rhode Island on emerging technologies, and Adam gave a well-received presentation on getting started with web standards.
This past spring, BatchBlue became a proud sponsor of the Rhode Island Engineers of Tomorrow LEGO Robotics team, who went on to win 3rd place in the programming category of the 2008 First LEGO League World Festival, held in Atlanta, GA.
Because we are such a small company and still getting started, what we do is not a lot. We do what we can mostly by volunteering our time and services. But last week, just before we took the stage at our Providence Geeks presentation, a woman and a young man came up to introduce themselves. It was Mary Johnson and her son from the Engineers of Tomorrow, who had specifically come down that evening to thank us for our support.
Meeting Mary and her charming, delightful son reinforced the idea that even giving a little of your time or money can go a long way in the lives of those you are helping. Congratulations to the Engineers of Tomorrow: we look forward to seeing what your tomorrows will bring!
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We love entrepreneurs. Being a start-up ourselves, we can appreciate the passion, work ethic and enthusiasm an entrepreneurial spirit brings not only to business but to life in general.
That’s why we were so excited to learn about Kiva.org. If you don’t already know about it, kiva.org is an amazing organization that allows entrepreneurs in developing countries to receive micro-loans in order to start or grow their businesses. Lending to entrepreneurs through Kiva.org is a perfect fit with our company’s mission of helping people own and operate their own businesses. We’re proud to help sponsor our very first Kiva entrepreneur, Ms. Elvia Peyreyra Marin of Peru.
As our company grows, we’ll be looking for other ways BatchBlue can help out with the causes that are near to our heart. For now, we feel that helping a fellow entrepreneur grow her business is a great way to start.
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