TGI FriDAY’S offer Free Bluetooth Internet

Utilising a Bluetooth marketing campaign, TGI FRiDAY’S today offered their customers FREE Bluetooth Internet on mobile phones. Customers are prompted to download a special Bluetooth internet browser and after installation get to browse various sites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Instant Messenger (eBuddy), Flikr to name but a few (demo). Of course there’s Google Mobile so you can also search to your heart’s content.

At the top of the browser there is a main portal that upon entry customers can view a daily changing pages featuring cool mobile websites, polls, quizzes and the odd advert thrown in here and there.

To utilise the free Bluetooth Internet you must be within the proximity of the Bluetooth equipment. Great news for store owners as this can help:

1. Get customers to stay instore for longer

2. Increase the value of the customer’s experience

3. Build customer loyalty, ultimately leading to a return to the store to utilise service

BlueZone Media are proud to have TGI FRiDAY’S as a valued customer. If you’re in Dundrum and fancy something to eat, head into TGI FRiDAY’S, turn on your Bluetooth (plenty of signs instore) and enjoy FREE Bluetooth internet on your phone.

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cmypitch.ie bringing the Den to your PC screens

cmypitch.ie is like an online Dragon’s Den where you get to pitch your ideas to a panel of registered investors.
Taking the lead from the success of the Uk’s cmypitch.com Emmet Kilduff brings cmypitch.ie to Ireland, with an impressive list of investors onboard with the likes of Eddie Jordan (F1), Philip Lynch (IAWS, One51), Patrick Brazel (former Chairman of Irish Software Association), James Morris (Windmill Lane, TV3), and Tony Kilduff (Kindle).

For more on cmypitch.ie visit their site here

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Don’t procrastinate, Collab-orate

Got a project you want help with? Have an idea and want to bounce off others?

Then Collab.ie can help. It’s a resource where people looking for people in the know can go, sign up and share ideas and advice, for free.

As Collab’s tag line reads:

Find People Find Skills Get Involved

In their own words:

Collab is a simple, easy to use, free online tool to help bring ideas and skillsets together. If you have an idea and you need to find a person or people to work with you or if you want some feedback on a project you are considering collab is for you.

Collab can be used :

• for any type of collaboration
• for any type of project
• by any individual or organisation

Examples:

Lets say you have an idea for running setting up a business and need some help on the financial side – post on collab.

If you are a web developer and have an idea for a site but need some marketing advice – post on collab.

If you have skills in selling door to door and want to find a product supplier – post on collab.

Working on some research and need skills in a certain area.

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Some Fine Tuna

Today’s Tuesday push is http://www.finetuna.com/

FineTuna allows you to upload an image or take a browser screenshot, add comments or markers to your image and send it on to your designer or developer by email.

Check them out, that link again: http://www.finetuna.com/

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BlueZone Media Ltd in the Sunday Business Post

Today BlueZOne Media was included into a feature in the Sunday Business Post about WiFi’s increasing availability on coaches.

To read the entire article click here

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Tuesday Push – Decisions For Heroes

As a rock climber I view the mountain rescue services with a mixture of potential embarrassment and a lot of respect. On the embarrassment side of things, I worry about someday being stuck on a ledge in Dalkey Quarry with an over sized team of rescuers determined to strap me into a stretcher whether I need it or not, and all this to the cheers and jeers of a large crowd of onlookers.

However when the mist starts to descend over the Wicklow hills and you realize that you are lost there is great comfort in knowing that a well trained, well equipped and organized group of rescuers are willing to brave the elements to bring you down safely. It is the organisation of volunteer rescue teams that Decisions For Heroes focuses on.

What is Decisions For Heroes?

Decisions for heroes is a rescue team management web application that aims to save lives by making volunteer rescue teams more efficient and enable them to share vital knowledge between groups. Rescue teams using Decisions For Heroes are provided with a simple web interface where they can log all their training and rescue activities along with details of their team members. It then provides analysis, such as heat maps of the number of incidents in an area, that enable the team to plan how best to meet the unique challenges of their local area.

What is fantastic about the goals of the product is its genuine life saving potential. I love the fact that web 2.0 technology has allowed a small Irish company to make such a big difference to a vital worldwide service. 10 years ago this just wouldn’t have been possible.

How Well Does It Work?

The product itself is fairly simple and it only took me about 10 minutes for me to get to grips with it. I think that the Byte Surgery team have done an excellent job in providing an intuitive user experience and it looks like they have stripped out any unnecessary features so it is very focused. What is left is clear, concise and blindingly fast.

Decisions For Heroes in action

• Dashboard – Summarise the key activities that have taken place, with short cuts through to reports,etc
• Activities – This is the core input area of the product, where training sessions are scheduled and logged. Incidents are logged according to a timeline of: alert received, arrived on scene, departed scene and time the team stood down. There is a very nice Google Maps mash-up as part of this interface.
• Members – This section lists the details of each of the team members with their qualifications, also lists the incidents that they have attended.
• Analysis – The analysis section is where I think most of the value of this product will be delivered. It is through the reports on Decisions For Heroes that teams get to see where the geographical hot spots in their area are and what they need to be prepared for. It also makes it clear which team members are responding and what resources the team needs.

Byte Surgery have also taken a really nice approach to product features requests. First of all, it is integrated into the product allowing you to request an improvement as you are using a particular feature. In addition, your feature request is then shared with other users in the system, allowing them to contribute, so when the feature is eventually coded it should be well thought out.

Overall I’m extremely impressed with Decisions For Heroes and I think any organised rescue team will see immediate benefits from using it.

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BlueZone OnBoard 53 Seater Internet

World First Bluetooth Internet Browsing on Buses!

BlueZone Media have become the first company in the World to provide a full broadband service to all passengers onboard buses and coaches.

Full details of the new service are here

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Bluetooth Browsing

What exactly is Bluetooth Browsing?

BlueZone Media will use the new Bluevibe platform as it is the first and only Proximity Marketing system in the world that offers Free Web Access Via Bluetooth for a wide range of mobile phones. Of course it also comes with a complete package for traditional Content-Push Bluetooth Marketing Campaigns.

Give your clients access to their favorite Internet services on their Bluetooth-enabled phones:

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