UPDATE: After working with Get Satisfaction for a couple months, we’ve decided to combine our community and ticketed support together using Zen Desk. You can read more about that change in this recent blog post Support Changes at Sprout.
Recently I was thinking about how a useful tool called “Jing” and Sprouts could work together.
Jing is a lot like Twitter at first: when you try it you might think, “Interesting, but when would I ever use it?” Then you start playing around with it, see how others are using it and you’re hooked.
This is a guest blog post by Michael Britt, host of The Psych Files podcast.
The rush to create engaging Facebook fan pages is on, and we’re thrilled to leverage our platform to bring great brands to Facebook. Moving forward we’ll be showcasing some of the best fan page examples through our blog to get you inspired. For example, the band 311 just launched a new fan page to showcase their new album entitled Uplifter. Check it out and take a moment to listen to the entire album through the Sprout. We’re also happy to see REI’s page that features the latest deals from the REI outlet.
I recently had a conversation with Walter Gross, the Senior Director, Digital Strategy at EMI / Capitol Music Group about how his team of Flash developers / designers are using Sprout to create interactive Flash content quickly and efficiently. Walter has been immersed in the web and Flash design tools since the late ’90s, at a time when, as he puts it, was bombarded by “big and glitzy” Flash elements. Before Walter’s team had discovered Sprout, they were creating all of the content by hand-coding each element. Sprout has turned out to be a huge time-saver and made Walter’s team more efficient.
On 10/13/2009 the Huffington Post launched an article titled, “Help The Steins: Mother Who Went Blind To Save Her Children’s Sight Struggles With Medical Debt” which chronicled the struggle of a mother who couldn’t raise the funds necessary to support her child’s unique medical needs. Traditionally, in order to raise funds for a cause it was necessary to provide an address or a bank where contributors could send money. Sprout Builder removes this barrier with the ChipIn component.
In this Sprout Conversation, I am joined by Josh Rhinehart who is a creative art director for the music promotions company, Music Allies. Being a creative designer, Josh has pushed the boundaries of our platform and created some of the most impressive sprouts. I have included some of Josh’s sprouts below.
Joe Stump, a former Digg PHP developer, is now doing side projects and came out with a service on top of the twitter API called Tweetimag.es. This service makes it easier to pull Twitter profile images and in a way that prevents the image from breaking when a user changes their profile image. It also makes it easier to pull multiple sizes of the profile images. This got me thinking…how can we use this in Sprout Builder so that users can create custom Twitter sprouts with more flexibility. After pinging some of the Sprout developers, there was a simple solution that made this possible.