Happy Holidays from Blueye!
December 23, 2011 • 2:09 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary
Can you believe the holiday season is here again? It’s time to spend some relaxing and fun quality time with your family and friends.
So go ahead and exchange gifts, listen to holiday music, and decorate your home. However you choose to celebrate, the Blueye team would like to wish you and yours a safe and fantastic holiday!
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Mobile Apps For Social Traveling
December 22, 2011 • 1:12 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary
The holiday season is finally here and that means there’s tons of traveling in our schedules. No better time for us to outline some interesting social applications for those of you on the go.
B4YOUBOARD
I don’t know about you, but when I finally pass security and get a prime seat at the gate, the last thing I want to do is get up with all of my carry on bags and look for some snacks. As always, there’s an app for that. With B4YOUBOARD, you can order your food and nonalcoholic drinks and get it delivered to you for no extra charge. This service is only at a few airports including Chicago’s O’hare, but it seems like the kind of app that we’ll see more of.
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Social Enterprise Summit Chicago
October 25, 2011 • 1:37 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Social Media
“The Social Enterprise Summit is THE gathering for social practitioners and experts who are using business methods to solve the most pressing human, social, and environmental problems.”
The Chicago 2011 Summit is next week from October 30th through November 2nd and we’re proud to say that Blueye’s Abby Ross is going to be speaking at the event!
Heather Williams and Jenn McTigue will be there as well live tweeting from the event under @SEAlliance and @BlueyeCreative where you can keep up with great talking points that come up throughout the summit. You can also follow the conversation with the #SEASummit hashtag on Twitter. Keeping yourself informed about the summit is easy. You can also check out the Facebook and LinkedIn pages for the latest conversation surrounding the event next week.
It’s not too late to join us at the Social Enterprise Summit and do some live tweeting too. Tickets are still available and you can save $50 by entering the code: BUZZ50.
Feel free to let us know what you’re most interested in learning about and we’ll try to keep you updated on those topics.
Hope to see you there!
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Boss Appreciation Day at Blueye
October 17, 2011 • 2:09 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Random
Today is Boss Appreciation Day and there’s no better way to celebrate it than with our bosses Shannon Smith and Abby Ross.
As our bosses, Shannon and Abby make sure that everyday is unlike the day before. There’s always excitement in the office whether it involves beach balls or birthday celebrations—we never know what to expect in the Blueye office.
So in return for all of the good times in the office, we’re showing you our appreciation and love the best way we know how: dessert and gifts.
Thanks for everything you do!
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Twitter and Customer Service
October 14, 2011 • 1:55 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Social Media
It’s hard to find a brand today that isn’t somewhere on social media. What is a harder to find are brands that interact with customers that reach out on Twitter with complaints. Before social media came along, customers had to rely on interaction either face to face or over the phone. When those were the most important forms of communication, customer services reps were expected to listen to and answer any questions and concerns customers may have had. What about social media changed that?
The answer to that question may not have been answered yet, but what we do know from a recent study held by Maritz Research Company, is that 71% of people that have complained to a company via Twitter did not receive a response. Think about what that would be like long before social media came along.
A takeaway point from this information is this: Just because the medium has changed, doesn’t mean the sentiment behind it should.
What have been some of your experiences with Tweeting with companies in the past?
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Change is Timeless
September 30, 2011 • 11:52 am • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary
Every time Facebook comes out with some minor changes to the home page, or new buttons to click and ways to comment, there are always mixed reviews. Some people welcome those changes with open arms and can’t wait to be the first to figure everything out. Then there are those people who dedicate their statuses and Tweets to letting everyone know why they hate the changes so much and how they’ll never use Facebook again.
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Iterative Design, F8 and Painting My Living Room
September 28, 2011 • 4:11 pm • Posted by admin in Design
This post was written by Heath W. Black, poet, beagle owner, digital strategist and connoisseur of Lionel Richie records.
The past week has been a pretty crazy one for me. I attended Facebook’s annual F8 conference with some of the Blueye Team. I had a golf match and football game rained out. I bought my beagle her first raincoat. I also bought a record player, bookshelf and paint for my living room remodel project (It’s less of a remodel than patching up things that need patched up, but I like how manly I feel when I say remodel). As I’ve been taping, painting, remodeling and assembling things I thought to myself, “Self- there’s something to learn here…”
But what could F8 and painting my house possibly have in common? A few things, really.
- I’ve participated in both in the past seven days.
- My wife has patiently listened to me talk about both in recent weeks.
- Mark Zuckerberg was present at both (note: whether this is factual or not is still being verified by Snopes.com)
- Most importantly, they both emphasize the notion of iterations or, as designers will say, iterative design (disclaimer: i’m not a designer or developer, so if this post is errant it’s because I think on a higher-plane than most individuals).
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Facebook & Relationships
September 23, 2011 • 9:28 am • Posted by Tania in Commentary
Even if you have not joined, the network, Facebook can still affect your relationships. My cousin, who somehow still isn’t on Facebook, faked sick to ditch one of his friends in order to have lunch with another. He thought no one would ever know, but a GoRoma check-in post with a picture of my cousin taking a bite of pizza was all over the ditched friend’s mini-feed. An article on Mashable outlines the different ways Facebook interaction can affect people and their relationship. Having Facebook and knowing that you have friends, superficial or genuine, automatically enhances self-esteem. It’s the types of interaction, such as overanalyzing, checking updates frequently, and documenting a chronicle of your life on Facebook that creates anxiety and stress. Read the rest of this entry »
Websites Protesting SOPA With Design
January 19, 2012 • 1:40 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or were just offline the past two days) you know that a lot of sites chose to “black out” in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Obviously these movements would greatly change how we interact with the Internet, but I was also interested to see how sites would use design to “black out”. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty impressed.
I collected some examples of how all different kinds of sites chose to display their SOPA protests and came across some pretty cool examples.
I’m sure Google’s design approach is no stranger to you. Still, I felt the need to include it.
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