Posts Tagged ‘Sprout External’
Monday, October 26th, 2009
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.
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Tags: education, jing, screencapture, screenshare, Sprout External
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Friday, September 25th, 2009

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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Tags: mark delville, movies, Sprout External, txt movie club, txtmovieclub, where the wild things are
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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 »
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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Tags: los angeles, myspace, schematic, social media, social media summit, Sprout External
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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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Tags: pitchengine, pr 2.0, pr sprout, pr2.0, press release, public relations, social media release, Sprout External
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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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Tags: Sprout External, tweets, twitter
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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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Tags: facebook, fan page, fbml, flash on facebook, Sprout External, sprouts in facebook, swf, tab
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