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We’re just getting back from our second stop on the BarCamp Tour: the 6th annual MinneBar held at the Best Buy headquarters in Minneapolis. MinneBar is the largest BarCamp in the country, with about 1,000 people attending this year’s event.
The conference itself was great; lots of interesting sessions, fantastically smart and engaged attendees, and the Best Buy headquarters blew me away with how eco-friendly and employee-focused it was by design. Fellow BarCamp Tour busser and Shopify‘s Tech Ambassador Joey DeVilla wrote up a great post about the day’s event over on his blog Global Nerdy, and Stephanie Bullis from Grasshopper posted on 5 Ways to Make Your BarCamp the Next Minnebar.
The thing that impressed me the most from a sponsor’s perspective, though, was how the event organizers Ben Edwards, Luke Francl and Adrienne Pierce really took the time to make us feel welcomed, included and appreciated.
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Tags: batchblue, Community, marketing, sponsorship
With their growing importance and popularity, videos are becoming a big part of online communication. You can track your contact’s videos on YouTube, but did you know you can pull those videos right in to your contact pages in BatchBook?
Start With a Super Tag
The first thing you need to do is to create a super tag field to hold the YouTube feed. The built in Social Media super tag is perfect for this. Simply edit it and add a new Feed Reader field called YouTube. Be sure that type of feed is Blog/RSS Feed.
Do Your Search
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Tags: batchbook, how-to, marketing, youtube
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.
Tags: batchbook, Community, iphone, marketing
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:
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Tags: batchbook, flowtown, marketing, social crm, Social Media
Our friends over at MOO cards are running a little promotion that we think is very cool. Over the course of the next few weeks, the Business Card Project aims to re-design the business cards of 500 small business owners for, get this, FREE. That’s a very nice price!
From MOO’s site:
“Business cards are often the only piece of marketing you’ll print for your small business. Why hand over badly designed cards; limp and curling at the edges?
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Tags: Contests, fixmycards, marketing, MOO cards, small business
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