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TECH TALK
“There’s an App for That!”
Got an iPhone? If you do, you can use it to
make navigating and interacting on social media
sites even simpler!
Facebook
Facebook has a fully integrated iPhone appli-
cation that lets you move throughout the service
with speed and ease — often faster than the
website allows, according to the Facebook for
iPhone fan page. Among other features, you can
take pictures with the iPhone and upload them
instantly to your Mobile Uploads album, giving
your customers immediate access to the newest
merchandising displays, color in the greenhouse
or even sneak event previews.
Twitter
Visit our showroom during Americasmart, Jan. 6-13, at the Atlanta Merchandise Mart, 240 Peachtree St. NW, Ste. 20C 10
In addition to
twitter.com and texting updates
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from any mobile phone, there are roughly…48.3
million apps available for posting and reading
tweets on the iPhone. But some stand out above
the rest: Two tech-obsessed websites, Gizmodo and Mashable, named
Tweetie the overall best application for Twitter in 2009. It’s not free,
but it’s powerful and makes mobile interaction on Twitter a snap. This
app really gets the picture: The whole idea of Twitter is quick, simple,
True innovations
instant communication. For more information, visit
www.atebits.com/
tweetie-iphone. in tube feeders
— Paige Worthy
U.S. Patents,
7198004B1,
5970 913 .
using one or more social networks, and when they see that we are on
there, they are happy to join our group.
Facebook: Widespread Appeal
All four of
We have found Facebook to be the more widely used and easier-to-use
our sturdy
social networking site. Almost everyone has a Facebook account. It has
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become such a great way to make our customers feel like part of our family.
Facebook users who visit, or join the Pemberton Farms group can read our
feature
family story, see photos and video tours of our store and garden center that I
patented
took with my iPhone, post information or comments on our wall, add photos
baffles that
of their gardens, watch our monthly TV gardening segment, read about
keep seeds
upcoming events, and chat with one another. It’s like a free company web- at upper
site that is open to the public to contribute to. I post messages on our group levels…
page about once a week, usually quick notes that take only a few minutes.
extra joy for
birds and
customers!
“When I am working in the nursery
or store and see something I think
our followers would like to know about,
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dispenses sunflower
seed, fine mesh
for Nyjer seed
I send a tweet. It takes all of
30 seconds!”
877-628-6115
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