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.
Existing published sprouts, however, will not be interrupted.
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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.
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.
Guest blog post by: Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
I’ve been a college teacher for about 20 years now and I wish Sprout Builder was around when I started out. I discovered Sprouts a few years ago when I needed a widget for my website and I’ve seen the capabilities of Sprouts grow to the point where I’m convinced it could be the kind of teaching tool educators have been asking for for a long time. There are a lot of potential uses for Sprouts in education, but I’m really excited about this one: creating online projects. (more…)
Guest post by Brett Jones of Music Allies:
My boy and Sprout evangelist, Joey Mucha, noticed that I had created an interesting Sprout to help promote the Outside Lands Music Festival and asked if I would be interested in sharing my thoughts on why I chose Sprout for the job. Here are my thoughts and process on how we executed this campaign and why we chose Sprout.
There are a plethora of uses for Sprout Builder. We have seen some very large companies using Sprout but we have also seen some of the smallest using our products. What impresses us the most is when our users push the limits of our platform and leverage it flawlessly. The work done by Johnathan Karol for the documentary film: Beyond The Chair is a perfect example. I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Johnathan in my latest episode of Sprout Tips and Tricks.
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.
Facebook “pages” are a great way for brands, products, celebrities and more to connect with users on Facebook. With Facebook pages, users can become a fan of your page and then share that affinity with their friends.
So you have a Facebook page and you have a sprout. This blog post will show you how to get a sprout with a custom tab on your Facebook Fan Page.
