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State of Symfony 2 conference live viewing between Seattle and Vancouver BC #sflive2010

Nate Michael — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:11:38 +0000

Here’s something for our technical followers.

You are invited to watch the state of symfony 2‘s June 23rd session live from the big screens and in comfort of our new building just north of Bellingham, Washington. Located a half-a-mile from I-5, this location is convenient for people coming from the Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver BC areas. Everyone is welcome to come network with fellow symfony users (and potential users) to share information and best practices while building more connections within the symfony community.

We look forward to seeing you! Let us know you’ll be coming.

Where:

Cranberry Venture Partners
6220 Portal Way
Ferndale, WA 98248

RSVP: http://symfony2cranberry.eventbrite.com

Questions? Call Nate Michael at 408-372-6283.

Operation SEO Santa 2009 Launched

Joe Beaulaurier — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:51:19 +0000

You are invited to join PeoplePond as we push Santa Claus to the top of the SERPs in 25 days. This is a program based on collaborative SEO and social media sharing for the purpose of helping Santa Claus climb the SERPs to benefit various charities. This is a fun opportunity to flex your SEO muscles while helping worthwhile charities this holiday season.

Your friends at PeoplePond have created a personal SEO profile for Santa Claus including links to a few of his favorite charities. What would you do to help boost its rank in search results? Do you have SEO copy recommendations? Have you created some backlinks to the profile? Have you shared the profile with others on social media sites? It’s all good.

And as your reward for helping, you will receive a PeoplePond profile with a free full-service SEO and Identity Verification package subscription for one year (a $99 value) and your profile will be featured in the list of contributors. Check out the complete information and instructions for SEO Santa 2009.

Please blog, tweet, broadcast and share this information with your SEO and social media expert friends and anyone else who can help with this project. Let’s get Santa and some great charities the visibility they deserve at the top of the search results before Christmas Day.

Read the SEO Santa 2009 press release.

BlogHer ’09 Discovers PeoplePond Interactive Shirts

Joe Beaulaurier — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:42:20 +0000

BlogHer is a conference for women bloggers has been going on for years and is so successful that it is usually sold-out. It provides bloggers opportunities to participate in discussions about topics directly affecting them, sessions and classes providing learning opportunities and, maybe most important, the opportunity to meet their online circle of friends “in real life.”

So mostly women (some bring their kids since the BlogHer folks anticipate this with daycare services and other accommodations) attend. But our fearless Theron volunteered to delve into this gathering of women in order to learn and spread the good word of how PeoplePond can help build and protect bloggers’ personal brands and reputations.

Equipped with a backpack full of PeoplePond’s innovative and interactive t-shirts (your online identity on the front and room for comments from others on the back), he went to Chicago.

It wasn’t until one of the evening events that the shirts made their first appearance. And 3 minutes later they were all gone. This required a frantic call back to PeoplePond headquarters requesting more shirts ASAP!

So a bigger supply was shipped overnight. Granted it arrived the last day of the event but still things were exciting and attendees were charged up. The shipment was opened in the lobby of the hotel where BlogHer was being held and again it only took a few minutes to run out.

It was quite a sight to see people strewn about the lobby filling out in their PeoplePond shirts.

That evening Theron got this photo taken with American Idol finalist, singer/songwriter, Brooke White, leaving her comments on his shirt.

All in all, it was a great experience for everyone. More pictures are available here.

PeoplePond innovations extend into office conflict resolution

AlCastle — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:25 +0000

Okay, it was a Friday. A rare sunny Friday in the Pacific Northwest and the crew was feeling a little punchy. It didn’t help the professional office decorum any when new-hire Nate strolled in with an armload of Nerf weaponry. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. You know where this is going… enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7njbgH0Qo

Getting the blog rolling

Joe Beaulaurier — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:39:57 +0000

The paint isn’t dry here yet but we’re itching to start moving in. Poem, yes that’s her name, has done a great job putting a beautiful face on this blog. It’s now begging for content.

The team at Cranberry has their fingers in many things, including social media online services, brick and mortar retail, archival storage media and much, much more. As a result we are delving into these spaces with a unique perspective that makes it easy to think disruptively (read outside-the-box).

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