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Your voice is heard with Get Satisfaction and Sprout

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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.

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How Sprout and Jing Work Together

Monday, October 26th, 2009

jing-logo2Recently 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.

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Sprout Conversations #3: Mark Delville of TxtMovieClub

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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In our third Sprout Conversations, I had the opportunity to chat with Mark Delville, the co-founder of TxtMovieClub.  Mark is an entrepreneur and Sprout power-user who is constantly leveraging social tools to grow his companies.  Listen to our conversation to learn more about how Mark uses Sprout.

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Sprout Conversations #1 – Gavin Conaty

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

screen-shot-2009-09-09-at-51846-pmThis 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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LA Social Media Summit Recap

Friday, August 21st, 2009

On Tuesday, 8/18/2009, Sprout hosted our second social media summit in Los Angeles.  Over 65 social media connoisseurs were in attendance to view presentations by Myspace, Schematic and Sprout.  As to be expected with a social media summit, the presentations were short but the questions and answer were long and engaging.  The questions ranged from personal vs. co-branding to running Facebook contest and everything in between.

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A new way to create Social Media Releases (PR 2.0 sprout)

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

A few months back, we were thinking about how we submit our company press releases to the media.  Our main channel was to use a wire service such as PR Newswire or Market Wire to push out our release.  This method served as the backbone to our one-to-one outreach amongst key influencers.  We also promoted our releases through internally controlled channels such as our company blog, Facebook fan page, and twitter stream.  While this method works for the most part, it needs some assistance.  So I decided to use our very own Sprout Builder to create an interactive rich media component that will supplement our releases.

Due to its very nature, I am able to embed it right here in our blog to show you a living example.  Here is what I am calling the PR 2.0 sprout:

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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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Execs & Accounts: Michael Weaver, Revolution, Sprout

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

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Adding sprouts to your Facebook Fan Pages

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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.

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How to Post a Sprout to Your Myspace Profile Header

Friday, May 8th, 2009

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a Sprout header for your Myspace profile like you can see on my profile at www.myspace.com/_gersh.

What you will learn:

  • Create a Sprout and use it as your Myspace header
  • Create a custom size slate for your Sprout
  • Add assets to your Sprout’s pages
  • Create a transparent timer
  • Insert into your Myspace code and place at the top of your layout

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