Archive for September, 2009
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
In my last post about Facebook Fan Pages I walked you through the basic elements of a Fan Page and how each of those elements works. One section of the post which is relatively open-ended is the section about additional content and applications. This content is basically everything but the basic Facebook functionality (info, wall, photos, video). Since it doesn’t fall under the norms and structure of standard Facebook content, you see a wide range in the variety of content. In this post, I will feature 5 Fan Pages that are taking full advantage of this open-ended section of Facebook Fan Pages. (All of the images below link to the actual tab that I am discussing for reference).
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Tags: applications, beth kanter, facebook, facebook fan page, fan page, fan woody, pages, target, volkswagon
Posted in Facebook, Social Media, Sprout External | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
In the second Sprout Conversations, I am joined by Steve Richo, who is a Sprout power-user and the co-founder of Noise New Media. Steve has created some very impressive sprouts and is constantly pushing the envelope of our platform. During our conversation, we discuss how he found sprout, how he is using it today and what the next big trends in social promotions are. I also introduced a new segment to this interview that I call the “Hot Seat” where I propose two pop culture entities and you must choose one. For example, “Kanye West or Taylor Swift?”
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Tags: conversations, facebook, myspace, noise new media, sprout builder, steve azar, steve richo
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Sproutbuilder.com will be undergoing maintenance on Thursday night from 10:00 pm until 2:00 am Pacific Daylight Time. The application will be completely unavailable during this time. Please save your work prior to this time.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
This is the first post in a series of posts about Facebook Fan pages. At this point, I hope you have come to understand that value of a Facebook Fan Page (also called a public profile, brand page, etc – but in my posts I will refer to them as “Fan Pages” or “Pages”). The purpose of this post is to show the various elements of a Fan Page and the various properties to those elements. I will use visuals and examples where needed. If you are keen to learn about Fan Pages but first need to learn the basics of Fan Pages, please spend a few moments reading Facebook’s Fan Page information.
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Tags: basics, facebook fan page, facebook fan pages, fbml, flash, guide, public profiles, starting new
Posted in Facebook, Social Media | 23 Comments »
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This is the first of a series called, “Sprout Conversations” where I interview designers using Sprout. We constantly see a ton of innovation and new ideas coming from designers using our products. That is why I want to truly understand and share how designers think, use and strategize with Sprout.
My guest for this episode is Gavin Conaty. Gavin is the founder and owner of Evalation and one of the very first Sprout customer. His team was working on Ben Harper’s web site and promotions when we initially launched Sprout Builder. We partnered with Gavin and the Ben Harper web team to create one of the very first sprouts. You can see that particular sprout in our launch video from DEMO08. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Tags: design, designers, evalation, gavin conaty, ingrid michaelson, photoshop, Sprout External
Posted in Community, Sprout Builder, Sprout External | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Due to an apparent power system failure at our primary data center, SoftLayer, the Sprout Builder application went offline. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused to users working with the application at the time. All servers and the application are back up now. Note that published sprouts did not experience any outage, only access to the builder application was affected.
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