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Archive for June, 2009

The SF Sprout Social Media Summit (Watch Live 9:30AM PDT)

Monday, June 29th, 2009

What is the Sprout Social Media Summit?

A half-day social media summit that brings together the social media thought leaders from the top agencies, brands and social networks to discuss the latest trends. The social engagement campaign business is evolving right before our eyes. The summit explores this trend with sessions, case studies, questions and answers from brands who have successfully reached their audiences across the social graph. You’ll learn how to effectively measure social media campaigns and some of the best practices that will add firepower to your social media arsenal.

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Sprout 2.2 Product Release Notes

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Approximately once a month, we release new features, improvements and fixes to our products. Every release has a version number and this was release 2.2. Here are the highlights from this release:

Sprout Studio:

  • The ability to add effects on mouse over, out, down, up and click states
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Our Twitter stock just went up, invest now.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Looking back at my first tweet as a Sprout employee,

Sproutbuilder: #SWAT Summit was great. A lot of exciting fervor around the companies who build apps and social media marketing tools. 9:07 PM Jul 18th 2008

I have realized that we’ve come a long way in the Twittersphere. As of June 23rd, 2009, we have reached 1800 followers and are at the tipping point where our followers will soon exceed the number of people we are following.  I have constantly tried to keep my tweets conversational and representative of Sprout as a personable start-up, sophisticated software company and a business with clear goals.  There have been customers who’ve raised concerns, given praise and started conversations with us on Twitter.  I have always been there to answer their questions and respond in a timely manner.   It is this transparency and willingness to openly communicate that separates us from many organizations out there who aren’t embracing social media.

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The Prototype Experience “experience”

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang’s post, I checked out http://www.prototype-experience.com/.  Activision has created a great video trailor that, thanks to Facebook Connect, includes photos and information from your Facebook profile. Would I normally sit through an entire video game trailor? No. Did I sit through this one? Absolutely. Why? We, as humans, love when things are personalized and tailored just for us. We’re egomaniacs. Personalization makes us more attentive and more apt to share with our friends. And it’s cool to be mentioned in a video game and see your friend’s photos in this context. And the beauty of it is Sprout will have this same functionality in just weeks. Stay tuned.

Here is a video of my experience:

The Prototype Experience \”Experience\”

The Prototype Experience “experience” from carnet on Vimeo.

Sprout Scheduled Maintenance, Tonight, 9PM PST

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Tonight we will be pushing some updates to the Sprout family of products. At 9PM PST, we have allotted 2 hours for maintenance (but it may be much shorter). During this time, the Sprout Builder application and some of the Sprout engagement campaigns will be unavailable. Please be sure to save any of your projects beforehand.

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Still A Wonderful World Of Web Widgets For Some Start-Ups

Friday, June 19th, 2009

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Testimonial from Olympic Skiier: Ryan Blais

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Ryan Blais is an Olympic skiier on the the 2010 Canadian Freestyle team.  He also happens to be a huge Sprout user.  Ryan’s use of Sprout is a great example of how one person can spread their brand by leveraging their web properties and social networks.  Watch this video and see how Ryan is using Sprout in his bid to become an Olympic champion:

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Ribbit and Sprout Partner to Seed Online Engagement Campaigns With Voice

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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Ribbit, Sprout inject “voice” into ad campaigns

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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Announcing the Summer of Social Good Charity Drive

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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