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An interactive, computer network based system presents consumers with multimedia brand information via a browser-based interface called the GraffitiWall®. Consumers can use the GraffitiWall® to modify and display a sponsor's brand information in any way desired, including use of avatars. Consumer modifications are immediately communicated to the other member consumers and the advertiser/sponsor. Consumers can rate the GraffitiWall®, or portions thereof, and email the GraffitiWall®. An archive of GraffitiWalls™ is maintained by the system. Consumers participate in online focus groups, one-to-one interviews and discussions, as well as games and promotions pertaining to the brand. Interaction with consumers through focus groups, one-to-one interviews, discussions, games and promotions allows the hosting company to reinforce brand equities; speak directly to their target audience; test new and updated products and services; and encourage participation to a brand via purchases and signups by rewarding the participant with coupons, samples, gift certificates, and the like. An ongoing dialogue between business and consumer, as well as consumer-to-consumer, nurtures customer participation, loyalty and satisfaction, and builds a community housed within the company's brand.
1. A networked interactive system for display of product information to a plurality of consumers, comprising:
a. a multimedia forum for enabling said consumers to communicate in a plurality of modes with at least one sponsor associated with a brand that is related to said product information; and
b. a multimedia interface for enabling said consumers to modify and view said product information through use of a plurality of graphic tools;
wherein said consumer can modify said product information using graphic tools, and said product information and said multimedia interface can be updated based upon said consumers' modifications and communicated to said sponsor.
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a. at least one public main wall frame window for displaying said product information related to said sponsor; and
b. optionally, at least one public sub-wall frame window located within said public main wall frame window, said public sub-wall displaying said product information and being a scrollable sub-Wall window;
wherein said multimedia interface comprising said system enables said sponsor and said consumer to access said public main wall and said public sub-wall and to modify and view said public main wall and said public sub-wall.
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a. at least one public main wall frame window created by said sponsor for displaying said product information related to said sponsor; and
b. optionally, at least one public sub-wall frame window created by either said sponsor or said consumers via said multimedia interface, said public sub-wall being located within said public main wall frame window and displaying said product information via a scrollable sub-wall window;
wherein said multimedia interface comprising said system enables said sponsor and said consumer to access said public main wall and said public sub-wall and to modify and view said public main wall and said public sub-wall.
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a. at least one public main wall frame window for displaying said product information related to said sponsor;
b. optionally, at least one public sub-wall frame window located within said public main wall frame window, said public sub-wall displaying said product information and being a scrollable sub-wall window; and
c. optionally, at least one private sub-wall frame window located within said public main wall frame window, said private sub-wall being created by said consumer via said multimedia interface;
wherein said multimedia interface comprising said system enables said sponsor and said consumer to access said public main wall and said public sub-wall and to modify and view said public main wall and said public sub-wall, and wherein said private sub-wall can only be accessed, viewed and modified by a specific consumer that created said private sub-wall.
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a. a length and width of the multimedia interface presented to the consumer;
b. a length of time the consumer modifications persist;
c. consumer access to the system;
d. promotions and prizes distributed through the multimedia forum;
e. a schedule of focus groups, interviews, and chats enabled through the multimedia interface;
f. a mailing list of consumers accessing the system; and
g. consumer assistance.
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58. A method for displaying product information to a plurality of consumers in a networked interactive system, comprising:
a. means for connecting said consumer with at least one sponsor associated with a brand that is related to product information concerning a brand so that they can communicate with each other in a multimedia forum;
b. means for providing a multimedia interface to said consumer with which said consumer can modify and view said product information;
c. means for updating said product information and said multimedia interface based upon said consumer modification; and
d. means for communicating said updating to said sponsor;
wherein said product information can be updated based upon said consumer modification and communicated to said sponsor.
This application is a Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 10/773,861, filed Feb. 6, 2004 which, in turn, is a Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 10/176,437, filed on Jun. 20, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,691,155, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety by reference thereto.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a web-based information sharing system; and more particularly, to a computer interface enabling companies and consumers to share brand information over the World Wide Web.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Advertising offers value to the consumer by introducing the consumer to new products, about which the consumer would not otherwise be informed. At times, these may even be essential products that substantially benefit the consumer's health, finances, and quality of life. Notably, over the past fifty years, the nature of advertising has been evolving to reflect the increasing sophistication and technological innovation characteristic of today's media. To a certain extent, today, advertising can even be characterized as an art form. Advertising has become more pervasive and the consumer's acceptance of advertising has increased.
One recent advertising development is the use of movies as a medium for brand reinforcement. For example, the popular movie, "E.T." shows a character clearly eating Hershey's Reese's Pieces®, rather than a generic chocolate candy. Characters in the movie, "The Client", reach for clearly labeled soda products to calm themselves. The movie, the "Matrix" features telephones identifiable as Nokia® brand. Consumers seem to accept this form of advertising, as adding realism to the story a movie has to tell, as long as it doesn't involve potentially harmful products such as alcohol or cigarettes. In addition, consumers gladly purchase memorabilia related to movies and television shows such as Mickey Mouse watches, E.T. dolls, and Spiderman costumes, which are in and of themselves, a form of advertising. Consumers have adopted advertisements as status goods so that the line between advertisement and product has become blurred.
Most recently, the World Wide Web (Web) has become an additional medium for brand reinforcement. However, studies show that pop-up ads and banner ads, along with unsolicited email, annoy consumers and may provide limited benefit to the advertising companies. Consumers are ready for a method of interacting creatively with brand information, particularly graphical information, over the Web and advertisers are equally anxious for the instant consumer feedback the Web can provide. Advances in software and hardware, as well as an increase in available bandwidth, now make this feasible. In addition, consumers seem to welcome using the Web as a means to share their evaluation of products whether through the form of book reviews on www.amazon.com® or product evaluations on a wide variety of sites. The prior art describes some attempts to use the Web for sharing information.
Video conferencing was an early attempt to enable users to interact and share documents over the Web. Collaborative video conferencing software currently exists which enables individuals, located at physically dispersed locations, to view the same data over the Web and to modify it. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,317,777 B1 to Skarbo et al., entitled "Method for Web Based Storage and Retrieval of Documents," describes a method by which a presenter can share a file with other conference attendees and update the shared document with the changes made to the document during the conference sharing. A document server incorporates a revision control system to allow a history of the documents to be maintained on the server. The server can present a list of current document versions as well as previous versions, thereby allowing the attendees to review the document in all its previous forms.
Also known in the art are networked systems, which enable conference attendees to create or modify information and to share it over the Web. For example, attendees can draw on a whiteboard accessible to all the attendees, using standard geometric shapes such as lines and circles. The attendees can exchange not only text files but also, video, audio, and graphics files. Further, the attendees can communicate via a chat function, which is a real-time, interactive, textual based conference tool that allows attendees to post messages to each other in a shared area. Such a system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,195,091 B1 to Harple et al. entitled "Apparatus for Collaborative Computing."
More recently, focus groups, which are discussions that enable marketers to acquire feedback from a group of participants regarding new products, are being conducted over the Web. U.S. Pat. No. 6,256,663 to Davis entitled "System and Method for Conducting Focus Groups Using Remotely Loaded Participants Over a Computer Network" describes how a chat function can be used to implement a focus group. In the described system, the focus group members, the group moderator, and the client presenting the new product are all located remotely from each other and communicate via the Web. The focus group members can view the messages each member transmits but cannot view the messages the client and moderator transmit to each other.
Consumers are now ready for an online environment in which they can creatively express and communicate their feelings about products as members of a virtual community. Specifically, what the prior art does not provide is a computer network based system that enables the consumer to modify brand information in a way that instantly reflects the consumer's thoughts, wishes, and desires for what the brand should be, and also rewards the consumer for the consumer's efforts. Also needed is a computer network based environment for immediately communicating the consumer's input to both other consumers and the advertiser. Further needed is the ability to easily adapt this system to any brand desired.
The present invention provides a computer network based system and method whereby consumers can interact with brand information and with each other. The system contains product information that is stored in a plurality of product information servers and arranged in a multimedia element. Product information includes information that reflects brand message or brand identity of a good or service. The multimedia element includes video, animation, iconography, text, audio, and chat. The system and method provide an interactive forum where sponsors and consumers can effectively interact and communicate.
The invention is implemented over the Web, an intranet, or other network system. Consumers interact with a server, or a plurality of servers, in client server mode, using a standard browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer™ or Netscape Navigator™. Each consumer registers as a member and receives an identifying username (handle). Such a system can be available to the consumer twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The consumer interacts with a multimedia interface known as the GraffitiWall®, which offers several different types of interaction. In Create Mode, the advertising sponsor or sponsors provide the consumer with a variety of multimedia elements such as audio files, video clips, icons, text, and photographs, which the consumer can place on a virtual Wall™, (GraffitiWall®) within a frame window, in any way the consumer desires. The elements include information pertaining to the brand, for example, a picture of a bathing suit being offered for sale or being considered for sale as a new product or lingerie that a retailer wishes to market. Products of this nature generally must be tried on before purchase and some consumers may be embarrassed to try them on in a public environment such as a store dressing room.
The networked interactive system displays product information to a plurality of consumers. The system comprises: (i) a multimedia forum for enabling the consumers to communicate in a plurality of modes with at least one sponsor associated with a brand that is related to the product information; and (ii) a multimedia interface for enabling the consumers to modify and view the product information through use of a plurality of graphic tools. The system enables the consumer to modify the product information using graphic tools, and the product information and the multimedia interface can be updated based upon the consumers' modifications and communicated to the sponsor.
A sponsor's brand is naturally connected with a brand message, a brand identity, or a brand characteristic that associates the brand with a good or service provided by the sponsor to the public. The product information utilized by the system includes information related to the specific brand message, brand identity, or brand characteristics. This product information is arranged in a multimedia element having graphic tools to enable consumers to interface therewith and modify the brand message, brand identity or brand characteristics.
Preferably, consumers and sponsors can communicate in a fun, unique way so that consumers continuously return to the sponsor's interactive display through the utilization of avatars. An avatar is an animated character, generally depicting a human; but animals and animated objects can also be utilized. The system provides an avatar kit having an array of avatar multimedia elements encompassing a plurality of palettes. Such palettes include the following: an avatar body pallet; an avatar hairstyle palette; and an avatar facial expression pallet. Both the sponsor and the consumer can create their very own avatar. A sponsor can create a customized branded avatar that acts as an interactive buddy, interacting with other avatars that are created by the same sponsor or by consumers. Consumers can create the avatar through use of the predetermined personalities and characteristics provided by the palettes. Alternatively, the sponsor could create preassembled avatars from which the consumer can choose.
The avatar kit may have an array of avatar multimedia elements comprising an avatar body pallet, an avatar clothing pallet, an avatar hairstyle palette, an avatar facial expression pallet, a personality pallet, and an audio pallet. The avatar body pallet can comprise a plurality of body types, hairstyles, heads, facial structures, faces, limbs, and personality components. Both the sponsor and the consumer can create customized avatars that act as interactive buddies having predetermined personalities. The avatar kit may be adapted for use by the sponsor in creating an avatar that is associated with the brand to form a branded avatar. The avatar kit provides predetermined avatars that have predetermined personalities and interact with the branded avatars from which the consumer can choose to form a consumer avatar. The avatar kit may also be adapted for use by the consumer in creating an avatar to form the consumer's very own personal avatar.
The avatars created by the sponsor and consumers can interact with a plurality of avatars throughout the system. Branded avatars are adapted to be used as a conduit for communication between the sponsor and the consumer. These conduits of communication may include any of the following: at least one customer service representative; at least one online DJ; at least one promotional product launch service; or at least one company branded character icon. Alternatively, the multimedia elements utilized to make up avatars may comprise a body type palette, hair styles, facial expressions, clothing, musical backgrounds, personalities, and sound bytes.
Sponsors can customize a brand environment so that the environment provides a brand forum where sponsors and consumers can chat and interact with each other. The consumer may also be able to customize the brand environment. The multimedia forum may be created by the sponsor and includes the following elements: (i) at least one public main wall frame window for displaying the product information related to the sponsor; and (ii) optionally at least one public sub-wall frame window located within the public main wall frame window. The public sub-wall displays the product information and is a scrollable sub-wall window. Both the sponsor and the consumer can access the public main wall and the public sub-wall and modify and view the public main wall and the public sub-wall. The consumer may be able to create a public sub-wall frame. Private sub-walls are also provided for by the system.
These private sub-wall frame windows are located within the public main wall frame window. The private sub-wall acts as the consumer's private apartment of sorts and can only be accessed, viewed and modified by the consumer who created it. These walls can be traversed upon by sponsor created branded avatars and consumer created consumer avatars. The avatars are seen on the public main wall, public sub-wall, and private sub-wall as animated electronic characters that interact and communicate with each other and their surrounding environments (i.e. the various walls).
Communication is provided by way of a post office communication interface, a phone a friend communication interface, or a chat communication interface. The phone a friend interface allows consumers to communicate by way of video cameras and microphones. The chat communication interface comprises textual, visual, and audio emoticons that can be utilized to reflect a plurality of emotions. The avatars can also chat through an avatar chat communication interface comprising textual, visual, and audio emoticons to reflect a plurality of emotions. The avatar chat communication interface may be a private chat between the consumer avatars. Consumers and the sponsor can create their own avatars and can select a plurality of function multimedia elements adapted to interact with the avatars via the multimedia interface of the system.
In another embodiment, the system can include a sponsor reward system that rewards consumers points based on a plurality of scaled levels. Each scaled level reflects a point system and the consumers are awarded points for participating with the sponsor. Earned points are redeemable for branded and non-branded goods and services. For example, a consumer could earn enough points to get their own private sub-wall.
A navigation interface is also provided in order to facilitate movement of the avatars/consumers throughout the wall. The navigation interface provides a compass arrow, a dynamic map, a plurality of sub-walls throughout the multimedia forum, a plurality of transportation means, and a plurality of menus. Transportation means can comprise, but are not limited to, taxis, planes comprises taxis, planes, cars, wheel chairs, scooters, and skateboards. The dynamic map can be updated in real-time accordance with the consumer and the sponsor modifications.
A list can be provided to the sponsor posting currently logged-on consumer members. The list also provides the location of the logged-on consumers and interfacing means for communicating with the logged-on consumers. An administration or communication tool set adapted to enable the sponsor to continually modify the system is provided.
The system also provides multimedia tools allowing consumers to build a sequential multimedia environment. This sequential multimedia environment includes a studio mode and a concert mode. The studio mode involves creating a multimedia layer sequence via a gridded timeline where time is represented horizontally and visual and auditory depth is represented vertically. The concert mode comprises playing the multimedia layer sequence formulated in the studio mode.
In another embodiment, the sponsor provides a wall contest that engages consumers and provides consumer information to the sponsor. The wall contest can comprise, but is not limited to, creating a multi-media postcard, story writing, multimedia painting, a best radio commercial or finding answers to a scavenger hunt. The wall contest also provides for the continuous tallying of votes for the wall contest entries to determine the winner. The winner can receive points redeemable for rewards.
In yet another embodiment there is provided a method for displaying product information to a plurality of consumers in a networked interactive system. The method comprises: (i) means for connecting the consumer with at least one sponsor associated with a brand that is related to product information concerning a brand so that they can communicate with each other in a multimedia forum; (ii) means for providing a multimedia interface to the consumer with which the consumer can modify and view the product information; (iii) means for updating the product information and the multimedia interface based upon the consumer modification; and (iv) means for communicating the updating to the sponsor. The product information can be updated based upon the consumer modification and communicated to the sponsor.
Among the significant benefits accorded by the GraffitiWall® are certain enablement and facilitation features, which allows companies to: (i) reinforce their brand equities; (ii) speak directly to their target audience on an ongoing basis; (iii) test new and updated products and services via the Focus Group/Feedback mode; (iv) create an environment, which builds greater customer satisfaction and involvement; (v) build brand communication so customers see and feel the brand as his/her own; and (vi) encourage participation to a brand via purchases and signups by rewarding folks with coupons, samples, and gift certificates.
Customers are enabled to express product preferences in a free-form mode using the Web based GraffitiWall® system, which dynamically stores customer inputs and updates the Wall for viewing by other users. An ongoing dialogue between business and consumer, as well as consumer-to-consumer, nurtures customer participation, loyalty and satisfaction, and builds a community housed within the company's brand. The end results spell greater profits and keep companies on the radar; first and foremost in the minds of their customers.
The invention will be more fully understood and further advantages will become apparent when reference is had to the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings, in which
There may be any number of servers 16, 18, 20 or the servers 16, 18, 20 can be eliminated, in which case the database server 10 is directly connected to the firewall 22. There may also be more than one database server 10 and any number of consumer workstations 28, 30. The product information servers 16, 18, 20 are augmented standard Web servers and handle the following types of requests: retrieve page (standard HTML); retrieve Wall section (by area and time); add/update graffiti; return Wall snapshot; retrieve chat; send chat message; add user; validate user; update user; update user demographics; and update user survey.
The firewall 22 insulates the database server 10 from the Internet 26. The database server 10 can also be connected to a personal digital assistant (PDA) 12 or other portable device such as a cell phone or laptop. A system administration workstation 14 is connected to the database server 10 for managing the database server 10. A plurality of consumer workstations 28, 30 communicate with the database server 10 and the product information servers 16, 18, 20 via the Internet 26 and the firewall 22. A sponsor workstation 24 communicates with the database server 10 in the same manner as the consumer workstations described above. The system may also be implemented in an intranet environment as is well known in the art. Also, any consumer workstation 28, 30 can function as a kiosk connected over an intranet to the database server 10.
The consumer workstations 28, 30 use standard browser software, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer®, to communicate with the database server 10. GraffitiWall® Visitor Software can be provided to the consumer workstations 28, 30 in the form of an ActiveX control Java Applet or Shockwave Movie, for example. Images are stored as vector graphics using Flash® or similar technologies. The GraffitiWall® Visitor Software will receive and supply data to the product information servers 16, 18, 20 using the HTML and XML over HTTP standard protocols. The GraffitiWall® Visitor Software can be run either as an Active Server Page, on behalf of sponsors, or it can be delivered to sponsors as a software product, which the sponsors can run on their own server infrastructure. The Visitor Software supports segmenting consumers into demographic or other groups, based upon information stored in the database server 10, such that the GraffitiWall® and other content displayed can be customized for specific groups and certain sections of the GraffitiWall® are visible only to members of specific groups.
Graffiti created by consumers is stored as a series of instructions, or opcodes, that manipulate the GraffitiWall®. An example of an opcode might be "color all pixels black in the first line of the Wall." The use of opcodes enables the system to display any version of the Wall, and the process of constructing it, at any time and as many times as desired. The relational database stored on the database server 10 contains a record of each media object created, its position, the user who created it, and the GraffitiWall® it was created on. Accordingly, it is not necessary to store multiple copies of the GraffitiWall®, but rather, only time stamped modifications to the Wall. The consumer can easily email a "snapshot" of the Wall, taken at any time, as the Wall history is maintained on the database server 10. The step-by-step operation of the hardware illustrated in
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The sponsor can create customized brand avatars in 2 d and 3 d that are programmed to act like interactive buddies with predetermined personalities. In addition, the sponsor (company) can allow the audience (consumers) to build their own avatar. Avatars with predetermined personalities can be used by the company to communicate their product information and act as communication conduits. For example, avatars can be used as customer service representatives, online DJs, promotional models, and company branded characters, iconography and trademarks. Customer service representative avatars can be specially designed characters evoking the company's style and can be utilized to optimally bridge the Company with consumers. Online DJs can have as diverse and defined personalities as TV or Radio personalities depending on the attractiveness of a given personality to a specific demographic. These personalities can be scheduled to be viewed at certain times so that Wall members could log on when specific avatars are scheduled. Promotional model avatars can be built specially for new product and service launches. Company branded characters, iconography, and trademarks can play and communicate with the avatar characters.
Consumers can construct their own avatars using an array of multimedia elements. For example, a consumer could upload a picture of her face and a picture of her body, which would be added to the personality of one of the Victoria Secret® super models. From there the consumer's self-styled avatar could try on Victoria Secret® bathing suits. Members can interact with this model as an animated paper doll to decorate the VS decorated Wall, or as an interactive chat buddy. Alternatively, the Company (in this case Victoria Secret) can use these models as a way to test out new concepts, clotheslines and commercials via interactive focus groups. The Company may allow their audience the ability to upload their own multimedia elements to further customize the avatar. For example, a consumer could upload a picture of his face, which would be added to the body and personality of one of the Victoria Secret's super models.
Avatars within a brand-saturated environment can be created by the host company. In this embodiment users can chat and interact with the host company by way of the 2D & 3D branded avatars. Alternatively, the users can chat and interact with other users and the host company's brand avatars.
Avatars within both Public and Private Branded Walls are located throughout the GraffitiWall™, as shown by way of the Avatar flow chart illustrated in
Members, both private and public, can build, decorate and maintain their own Private Wall that serves as the member's electronic apartment where the member can invite friends and have parties and events. A sample screen shot showing a Private Wall is shown in
Members are seen on the Wall as animated electronic characters or avatars. For example,
The host company can allow its members to select various activities. Such activities may include: (i) allowing the member to construct their own avatar by providing multimedia elements by way of the Branded Avatar Construction Kit (##); and (ii) providing pre-designed avatars for the members to select and build upon. A sample screen shot showing the Avatar Graffiti Creation screen is illustrated in
Alternatively, a Company member can provide pre-designed avatars for the members to select and build upon. In this embodiment, after logging in, users get a palette of avatars with pre-determined behavior, animation and audio affects. For example, one avatar's walking animation may consist of skipping, whereas another avatar's animation may consist of up and down leaps as they navigate throughout any given Wall.
Users can communicate with each other through various tools including: Post Office tools; Phoning A Friend tools; and textual Chat tools. Specifically, the Post Office tool allows one member to internally email other members. Whereas the Phoning A Friend tool allows one member to phone a friend/other member via audio tools including video cams and microphones. Members can chat with one another through use of the textual Chat tool, which can further include both visual and audio emotion tools. The Chat tool can provide members with a chat palette where users can type in text, select and position audio and visual emotions within the text box. Audio emotion tools include of words and sounds associated with various emotions, while visual emoticon tools include animations and possibly audio and text that are associated with various emotions.
The text, audio and visuals are played out in the order they are placed within the text box. For example, if the words "hi bob" is first and then one places a cheering sound emoticon to its right, followed by an animation emoticon of lips smiling, the chat would play out in that order. One would first see "hi bob", followed by a cheering sound which is sequentially followed by the lip animation. The chat between members (company or consumer members) can be public or private. When members chat globally their text and sounds are in a visual talk balloon for all to see, while private chats are displayed only to the selected member(s).
Users can add graffiti to the Wall/environment. For example, a user/member can add city sounds and building bits as well as objects and props. Any Graffiti element can be branded, as branding is not restricted to branded items (see
In particularly these travel tools include: (ii) function pieces; and (ii) transportation pieces. The function pieces allow the member to select various tools, such as doorways to transport the avatar. The
Tool menus are also provided to allow the member to select various activities that the avatar acts out. For example, if the member selects a soda bottle the avatar can drink it. The avatar can also change color and shape either by way of the members own selection, or automatically (i.e. drinks a can of soda and can expand). In some cases, being transported to new areas allows members/avatars to interact with other members/avatars that have selected the same transportation tool. For example, if one member has selected a bus their avatar can interact and chat with other members/avatars who have also selected the bus/are on the bus as is illustrated by the example screen shot shown in
Alternatively, a reward system may be utilized by company members to reward user/consumer members who interact and participate with the company member's brand. This interaction can include such things as participation in the company member's focus groups, surveys, being a good online citizen, frequency of visits to the company member's walls, or the like. Through the reward system can comprise various scaled levels, wherein the higher scaled levels provide greater reward incentives to the consumer member. The consumer member can advance to higher levels and thereby attain more rewards or points that are redeemable for branded and non-branded items. For example, the rewards could include awards within the GraffitWall, such as providing the consumer member with a private wall having an apartment, an avatar car, avatar clothes, a branded avatar watch, or the like.
The reward system scaled levels can be determined by way of a point system. On the Master Main Wall Admin there would be an added area where a member company can assign points to certain components or skins. On the Member side, their Admin Tools would contain a "catalog" showing the various items, their price and what their current point balance is.
Navigation tools are provided throughout the GraffitiWall®. These navigation tools comprise a compass arrow, a dynamic map (
Optionally, a company member can have a Wall Member List that can be posted on the member company's Wall, or/and dynamically posted on the member company's own website. The Wall Member List consists of a list of members logged onto the GraffitiWall®. Alternatively, consumer members can also view the Wall Member List. Clicking on one of the member names could link a member to the appropriate GraffitiWall®.
Administration or Communication Tools are the backbone of the GraffitiWall®. The Administration Tool Set is illustrated in the example screen shot shown in
An audio & visual studio and concert mode (collectively, the "studio") is provided by the Wall. The studio allows members to build a sequential multimedia environment. Members can layer and arrange a sequence of audio clips, animation, video and still images to later play back sequentially by the original creator or by other members. The studio includes two basic modes: (i) a studio mode; and (ii) a concert mode.
The studio mode allows a member to construct and deconstruct multimedia layers and sequences. The construction and deconstruction of the multimedia layers and sequences may be accomplished through a gridded timeline, wherein: time is represented horizontally and visual and auditory depth is represented vertically. Both horizontal and vertical layerings serve as timing timelines. Horizontal layering serves as the timing timeline and the vertical layering serves to make the top-most elements more prominent. For example, the top most layers of visual and auditory elements are more in the foreground than the back layers as per software programs such as Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop. Studio mode is completely editable so that the original composer, as well as other members, can modify the composition. Audio sequences are also provided as a series of self-contained audio streams that can be arranged in any order, like laying tracks down on a railroad track. These sequences will be played in order from left to right. If there are sequences on top of one another, the lower sequence shall play out via a more subdued tone.
Visual layering is also provided whereby the Wall's background serves as the overall visual background for layering video, animation and still images. For example, the background could be the interior of a three-ring circus tent. One can first lay down a video of a cheering crowd, with animated clowns juggling on top of the crowd. On the top-most layer is a close-up of a trapeze artist swinging from side to side. When the sequence plays, the crowd is seen in the background cheering; the clowns are juggling in the mid-ground; and the trapeze artist in the foreground is swinging from one side of the frame to the opposite side. Sequencing audio & visuals is also accomplished via layering, whereby visual and auditory elements are laid out horizontally on the track to control timing. For example, by making the clown and music track the same visual horizontal length, one ensures that they play simultaneously and stop at the same time. By clicking on the play button, the series of visual and auditory elements play out via the concert mode. After playing the sequence, any member can edit the studio by simply dragging, rearranging, adding and deleting, layering and sequencing elements.
Private Areas on the Wall are provided for either company members or consumer members. These areas are controlled, private areas that are controlled and maintained by the company member or consumer member. Company members can offer exclusive and private areas on the Wall for a variety of members and purposes. Some examples are: focus group sessions; and platinum club members. These private areas can be multi-tiered, whereby select members are afforded special access to different features including, but not limited to, at least one of the following: (i) communications and capabilities; (ii) loyal customer features; (iii) training; (iv) special events; (v) special parties; (vi) trade shows; (vii) test kitchens; and/or (viii) special promotions.
A company member can provide selected consumer members with private areas/walls while still providing a Main Town Square for all members to congregate. For example, XYZ Carpets, B B & B, or C and C could sponsor a community hub. This hub could have seminars, contests, special events, and promotions to encourage consumer members to congregate together. From these main town squares or via a direct URL, individual members can go to their private areas. Individuals can control their private Wall/community while still residing within a larger community sponsored by the Company member(s).
The company member can invite members to build their own residence. The background wall, audio, and visual elements are the company's brand equities. For example, XYZ Carpets offers a scrollable hip loft space complete with roof access and a great urban view. Members are offered Create Palettes populated with XYZ's rich colored and textured furniture, accessories, music etc to decorate their space. In addition, members are given some Admin Tools allowing them to upload their own visuals and audio, maintain chat and other forms of feedback. However, consumer members are not given the whole range of Admin Tools that are otherwise available to the company member. Administrative functions include general, member, wall-builder, picts, audio, tools, and survey functions. The wall-builder function provides predetermined components that members can select to assemble and rearrange the Wall. The wall-builder function also allows the member to select the size of the Wall.
The present invention provides fun promotional events, activities, and contests that engage the audience. It also provides consumer information for company members.
These contests can provide word-of-mouth marketing, brand messaging and the ability to collect consumer information. In one embodiment, the contest is to create a Travel Postcard of a consumer member's favorite Company Z service or good. The members can use sounds, words and images, representing Company Z's services or goods via Graffiti Wall's picts (see example screen shot in
For example,
A company member could provide that the consumer member must register with the company member's wall in order to participate in the contest. Registration would consist of filling out a simple form containing questions useful to the company member. For example, Company Z may inquire things such as: what are their favorite Company Z destinations, how often do they travel, how often on Company Z, and the like.
Members could create their own postcards, collaborate with other Members (see example screen shot in
Having thus described the invention in rather full detail, it will be understood that such detail need not be strictly adhered to, but that additional changes and modifications may suggest themselves to one skilled in the art, all falling within the scope of the invention as defined by the subjoined claims.
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After facing the loss of their current building to the Noisette redevelopment project, the Lowcountry Food Bank launched the Growing Forward Campaign to keep their doors open while striving to reduce hunger in the Lowcountry. Through hundreds and thousands of pledges and donations, along with corporate and individual sponsorships, Phase I brought in $2.5 million. With the launch of Phase II, the Growing Forward Campaign goal is to obtain $1.5 million in additional pledges, donations and sponsorships. Phase II proceeds will go toward renovations of the new Community Food and Nutrition Center, including the purchase of new food processing systems and freezers, roof repairs, updated distribution docks and the addition of the building's production kitchen and repack center.
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Wow, a little shocked to see Turner Gill, who famously (or infamously) was passed over by Auburn, allegedly because Gill, being black, is married to a white woman, and that wouldn't jibe in the Alabama.
So he gets hired by Liberty, which is a school founded by the late Jerry Falwell, a very prominent Evangelical Christian. I'm not aware of any real controversies involving Falwell and race, but he has had very prominent anti-gay leanings (such as blaming the 9/11 attacks on America's "leniency" on homosexuality), and that sort of perspective generally comes from the same source as racism, or at least one that would not be a big fan of interracial marriage.
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Review by Kyle Kerley - March 26, 2007
The Chieftec Dragon full-tower ATX case I'd been using the last three years or so has been a great case, but it was a bit cramped inside there. The small internal area, compounded with a huge 1000w power supply, a CPU running at 3.0GHz, and two 8800 GTS video cards running in SLI full-time, resulted in a case that was handling far too much heat. Plus, the fact that I can't manage cabling to save my life meant that even though I had five 80mm fans running, not a lot of air was getting pushed around efficiently.
Enter the Lian-Li G70 case.
This case is enormous. It allows for the power supply to be mounted at the top or bottom of the case and I decided to change things up and put my PSU at the bottom. This is kind of a lose-lose situation as the PSU is either going to be right on top of the CPU or right beneath the 8800GTS cards, so either way, one area is going to be significantly warmer than the other. To help combat the CPU's heat, I installed a Zalman CNPS9500 heatsink and fan. For those not familiar with it, it's just over 1 pound of pure heat-fighting copper goodness.
This massive array of fins is arguably the best air-cooler on the market and I could not wait to see what it did to my ever-rising CPU temps. The Lian-Li has a built-in 120mm exhaust fan that lines up PERFECTLY with the CPU, so there is a nice air tunnel setup to keep air moving directly over the CPU.
The increased size, three built-in 120mm fans (one intake in the front of the case, one exhaust right behind the CPU and another intake that blows directly onto the 8800GTS cards) and a monster heatsink resulted in idle temps 10°C lower than with the stock heatsink and old, smaller case. With spring in full swing here, temperatures have been rising and my apartment being on the third floor of a three-story building results in some VERY warm temperatures. Ambient temperatures change regularly, but with a box fan in my window, I can get my room down to about 60°F which results in the CPU running at about 38°C idle and around 48°C at full-load with Orthos running.
Armed with a better case and airflow along with enough copper on top of my CPU to start minting pennies at a profit, I pushed the overclocking envelope a bit further to see what could happen. Still at the same voltages I was achieving 3.0Ghz/1333MHz (CPU/FSB), I upped the FSB to 1422MHz (355.5MHz quad-pumped) to get to that magic 3.2GHz that I see so many others shooting for.
The computer POSTed, but BSODed and restarted when the initial Windows XP load screen started. I went back into the BIOS and forced a vcore of 1.35v and tried again. Success!
Windows XP booted just fine at 3199.5GHz (3.2GHz going forward) and I fired up Orthos again to test stability overnight. I went to bed after it had been running for over two hours with no problems whatsoever. Temps were up about 1°C idle and 2°C at full load. Again, it's somewhat difficult to guage because of my apartment's temperature being so whacky, but regardless: the Zalman and Lian-Li G70 were doing a phenomenal job of keeping the CPU cool.
Sunday (3/25), I woke up and checked to see how the CPU was faring only to find a BSOD waiting for me. At some point during the night, ntfs.sys had an error and I received a Page_Fault_In_Non_Paged_Area critical failure. I would hazard a guess that voltages need to be played with to insure a stable system at 3.2GHz and beyond and I will continue to play with this board to see what kind of results I can achieve. As it stands, time did not permit for me to get any definitive answers/results at speeds above 3.0GHz for this review.
On a side note, upon further examination of the BIOS while pushing the CPU to 3.2GHz, I discovered some handy options for thermal throttling. There are four mods: disabled, TM1, TM2 and TM1 + TM2. In TM1, active processing cycles are cut to reduce heat output and re-enabled as they become needed. TM2 reduces the CPU multiplier and vcore as the CPU idles and as soon as the system demands full power, the multiplier and vcore rise back to where they are set to be. TM1 + TM2 uses both of these to result in a CPU that runs slower and cooler when the demand for the CPU's full power is not present. By enabling TM1 and TM2, my CPU idles almost 5°C cooler (resulting in approximately a 15°C drop from where it was with the stock Intel cooler in the Chieftec case).
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Election 2012: Florida House District 76 race -- Grant vs. Rodrigues vs. Solinger
This is the seventh of a daily series of Q&A reports with the candidates in Collier and Lee counties, counting down to the Aug. 14 primary election.
Three candidates are running for the new state House District 76, representing south Lee County. The new district was carved out as part of the redistricting process after the census, so no incumbent is on the ballot.
The three Republican contenders are Michael Grant, Ray Rodrigues and Chauncey Solinger. They will face off on Aug. 14 with the top vote-getter winning the seat.
State House District 76 covers Bonita Springs, Estero, San Carlos Park, south Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Pine Island, Bokeelia, St. James City and Boca Grande.
All eligible voters in the district can cast votes in this race because there are no challengers on the Nov. 6 ballot.
This is the seventh of a series of reports about candidates on the Aug. 14 ballot.
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Michael Grant
Born: July 15, 1949
How long you've lived in your county: Three months; 24 years in Southwest Florida
Education: Bachelor's of Arts in political science from the University of Massachusetts and a master's of business administration from Suffolk University in Boston, Mass.
Family: Married to his wife of 35 years, Lorraine; three children, Vanessa, 31; Chris, 27; Nick, 23; and a granddaughter
Political affiliation: Republican
Current position: Business owner of ambulance service; member of Florida House 2004-08
Q. What is the first thing you would do if elected?
A. As I learned as a member of the House, constituent services are an essential part of being a state representative. My first priority is to assemble a staff of experienced and caring individuals who will work to solve problems that my constituents have with the state bureaucracy. When I am in Tallahassee, they will be my eyes and ears back in the district.
Q. What would you do to make your community a better place to live?
A. The No. 1 priority of the citizens who live in the district is job creation and economic opportunity. As a small business owner who has created more than 120 jobs in the region, I know that government cannot create jobs. Our state government is responsible for improving the business climate in Florida so that companies can expand and create jobs.
Q. What makes you the most qualified for this position?
A. I believe I am the most qualified candidate based on my successful experience in the Legislature and my business background. I know how to get legislation passed that benefits my community and constituents. I know what it is like to make payroll every week and how laws and regulations can impact businesses in a negative way.
Q. What distinguishes you from your opponents?
A. I am the only candidate who will not need on-the job training after the election. I am the only candidate that has voted four times to balance the state budget without raising taxes and who has voted to cut his salary as an elected official. I am the only candidate who voted for the largest tax decrease in Florida history. I have owned a business in Southwest Florida for 24 years that has created well-paying jobs.
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Ray Rodrigues
Born: April 17, 1970
How long you've lived in your county: Since 1994
Education: Bachelor's of Arts in political science from Berry College in Rome, Ga.
Family: Married to his wife of 19 years, Ruth; son, Rhett, 10
Political affiliation: Republican
Current position: Budget manager, College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University
Q. What is the first thing you would do if elected?
A. Thank my volunteers. If I'm blessed to be elected, it will be because grass-roots activists played the decisive role. Eighty volunteers have already donated 1,100 hours to the campaign. Next, I will focus on the priorities of the district and office. Those priorities include passing a balanced budget, serving as the voice of the district to the Legislature and providing outstanding constituent service to citizens of District 76.
Q. What would you do to make your community a better place to live?
A. The most important issue facing our community is the economy and getting people back to work. According to economists, new startups have the highest rate of job growth. So in Florida, we must make it as easy as possible for entrepreneurs to start their businesses. Far too often, government is a roadblock to job creation and economic development. I will work to reduce the red tape, regulations and taxes that inhibit job growth and development.
Q. What makes you the most qualified for this position?
A. My experience as an appointee of then- Gov. Jeb Bush to serve as a commissioner on the Lee County Housing Authority, and as an elected member of the Stoneybrook Community Development District, provide a proven track record of fiscal conservatism, common-sense leadership and support for accountability and transparency in government. These principles will guide me in Tallahassee. During my time in those positions, I gained experience in developing budgets, setting tax rates and establishing policy.
Q. What distinguishes you from your opponents?
A. I am the only candidate who has lived, volunteered and held elective office in the district. As an 18-year community activist, I will provide our community a voice in Tallahassee. As a former General Electric manager and budget manager at FGCU, I have both a private and public sector perspective. Finally, as a budget manager who has worked with state budgets on a daily basis, I am prepared to hit the ground running in Tallahassee.
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Chauncey Solinger
Born: June 9, 1984
How long you've lived in your county: 28 years
Education: Bachelor's of Science in marketing from University of Central Florida
Family: Fiancé, Stephanie; twins, Sydney and Sophia
Political affiliation: Republican
Current position: Business owner: software company, car dealership, motorcycle training/licensing company
Q. What is the first thing you would do if elected?
A. I will create a central online interface for every voter to see a simple outline that explains proposed legislation and its effects on our community. Every voter will be empowered to easily let their representative know what their vote would be and offer feedback. We've never had a leader reach out to ensure we know what is really going on in Tallahassee. That changes with me as your state representative in District 76.
Q. What would you do to make your community a better place to live?
A. There is a direct relationship between the state of our local economy and our quality of life. There is too much interference and red tape from government when it comes to opening and operating a business here. I will fight to lower restrictions and fees on businesses so that we can get the economy flowing, get people jobs and bring in the revenues that will lower our cost of living and increase the quality of life.
Q. What makes you the most qualified for this position?
A. I have the support of Lee County businesses and residents. I'm the only candidate with a solution for improving our state budget by over $100 million without raising a single tax or fee. My sensible budgeting and policy-making decisions in business directly translate to the Legislature. I see the office as a full-time, year-round responsibility. I am the only candidate from our community and who has a deep, first-hand understanding of our issues.
Q. What distinguishes you from your opponent(s)?
A. I have the deepest ties to our community as the only candidate from here and who has created businesses and a family here. I'm the only candidate who can put Floridians before himself and provide year-round availability to our community. One opponent is an employee who has obligations to an employer that come first, while the other lives and works an hour outside the district. I know our community's values and will protect them.
■ Election 2012: Collier County Clerk's race -- Brock vs. Barlow
■ Election 2012: Collier County Property Appraiser's race -- Skinner vs. Lilly
■ Election 2012: Collier County Tax Collector's race -- Ray vs. Wagner
■ Election 2012: Florida House District 106 race: Passidomo vs. Bolduc
■ Election 2012: Florida House District 105 race: Crespo vs. Trujillo
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- Section of an intermediate submarine telegraph cable. The central conductor is surrounded by insulation, brass tape , more insulation, armouring wires, and an outer protective covering.
Intermediate cable was inserted between the less-protected and lighter deep-sea cable and the more heavily protected shore-end cable.
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MORE than a million spectators are expected to line the roads of two of East Lancashire's near neighbours for this weekend's epic Tour de France experience.
And it is estimated the cycling fiesta will generate £100million for Yorkshire, with Skipton, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden sharing in the spoils as 'host' venues.
Giant TV screens are being put up in all three towns as part of spectator hubs and cycle clubs around East Lancashire are making their own plans to join the festivities.
Burnley and Pendle CTC and Rossendale Road Club members are planning to travel up to Cragg Vale, near Todmorden, one of the most punishing climbs on the circuit, on Sunday.
Club secretary Ritchie Watts, of the Rossendale club, said: "We will be doing both days – we are meeting up in Kay Street in Rawtenstall on Saturday to go up to the Grassington area, then on the Sunday we will be meeting to ride up to Cragg Vale."
Even before the likes of Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Mark Cavendish speed by, crowds will throng the streets for the traditional 'caravan', a cavalcade of vehicles dishing out freebies and promotional materials to bystanders.
The caravan is expected in Skipton around 10.50am on Saturday and will be in the Calderdale area, for Todmorden and Hebden Bridge spectators, from 11.45am on Sunday.
A Calderdale Council spokesman said: "We're expecting 160,000 spectators in Calderdale and a real boost to local businesses.
"The race day alone is estimated to bring up to £3million into the borough, and after that, projections suggest that visitor numbers are likely to increase by between 15 and 30 per cent."
Council bosses in North Yorkshire are expecting 900,000 or more for the 100 miles of the race running through their patch, on Saturday's Leeds to York leg, with a carnival featuring musicians and markets in Skipton on both days.
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East Lancs prepares for huge boost as 'le Tour de France' rolls into the North
It's going to be chaotic. Ride sensibly, drive safely.
And PLEASE don't run alongside the riders. It's stupid, dangerous, and spoils others' enjoyment/view. They're professional cyclists earning a living and giving us a great sporting spectacle for free; give them a bit of respect and don't be a jerk.
And PLEASE don't run alongside the riders. It's stupid, dangerous, and spoils others' enjoyment/view. They're professional cyclists earning a living and giving us a great sporting spectacle for free; give them a bit of respect and don't be a jerk.


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Live from Haiti: Blancs in Citae
Yesterday we went to a small village called Citae outside of Jacmel.
The journey there was an adventure in and of itself — there really aren't any roads by American standards, more like paths wide enough for a car to get through. We drove through 3 rivers to get there, passing huts filled with women washing clothes, livestock, donkeys trudging through the rubble dumped along the way from Jacmel buildings.
We arrived mid morning and uploaded the truck. Barton Brooks of Guerilla Aid is building a school in the town, and we set about building water filtration systems. It sits up on a mountain, right by the water, and the view is absolutely breathtaking.
We rolled up into the village in the truck — a bunch of white people sticking out like a sore thumb in the tiny village. Citae is a village of about 200, and is a pretty isolated place. Barton decided to build a school there because it was one place that hadn't been touched by any of the major relief efforts. The damage sustained from the earthquake was significant, but you could tell that they didn't have much to begin with.
The Haitian women had set up a small table near where we were working and cooked most of the afternoon, in hopes that we would buy something. The kids ran around and played, making kites out of plastic bags and frisbees out of cardboard.
The teenagers and adults were incredibly helpful. They watched us carefully and the ones that weren't busy working on the school carried things for us and were incredibly friendly and grateful. They were chatty, and many seemed to speak at least a few words of English. We managed to complete the water filtration units for every family in the village, which was a cool feeling. Clean water is obviously an issue, so giving them the power to make their drinking water safe is very much a life saving thing.
There was an old man with a sewing machine that worked diligently the whole time we were there. Clothes were strewn in the trees behind him to dry. He told one of our team members that his father had carried the sewing machine on his head from Santiago 34 years ago, and he'd held on to it ever since. The machine was on an old table that sat outside in front of his shack, and you could see the pride in his face when he talked about the machine. The rubble on the left side of the photo is what used to be his house.
We walked through the village before we left, just to take in some of the beauty of the place. We were greeted with smiles and waves and a lot of bonjous — mostly thanks to Barton's team who had broken the ice with the people who lived there. I heard the kids giggling and saying "blanc! blanc!" ("White! White!")… and it made me laugh.
It was incredible to get away from the city and see how beautiful the people and the country really are, and to be able to hopefully have some impact on the lives of people we will probably never see again is something that we can't take lightly.
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Who else is looking forward to this tour? If fall tour 2012 is any indication, should be another great tour. Hope Vin and Jim keep writing setlists. Guess we'll see in the coming weeks.
Going to hit the Knoxville Bijou show, first time they'll play there since '99. Talked with my buddy who hit that October show; said it was phenomenal. Hoping to go to ATL as well, but that's up in the air at the moment. Tour starts tomorrow!
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Frist 2 night of the tour in NYC were AWESOME!!! If that's any indication of how 2013 will go for moe. and fans, I would recommend traveling if necessary... see you at snoe.down :)
Listened to the first two nights on the Archive. Saturday was killer! That entire second set was the heat... Great flow, great musicianship, and even through the recording the energy is palpable. Hear Vinnie wrote that setlist.
Next run starts tonight. Pittsburgh tonight. Ann Arbor's lucky... acoustic moe. is always a treat. Anyone catching any of these next shows?
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Welcome to Pool Time Pool & Spa website. If you're looking for a piece of equipment, tile, finish, lighting, water features, remodeling, pool building, pool safely nets, pool fences, decking, solar, automation, pool service, and pool repairs, you've come to a good place. Pool Time has been in the greater Sacramento area for well over 20 years and you've most likely seen our trucks out moving the men of Pool Time, who are servicing lots of pools in the Sacramento Area, and repairing others and building even more. We specialize in Sacramento including western Placer and western El Dorado Counties as well.
About Us:
Pool Time is a local Sacramento pool contractor and service corporation. We belong to the Better Business Bureau and we get most of our work from referrals. You've most likely seen our trucks all over the Sacramento Metropolitan Area and you'll see more. If you commute from Zinfandel east, you've probably seen our sign under a large billboard on the south side of Highway 50. We started in Carmichael at Robertson west of Fair Oaks Blvd., then to Gibbons Drive at Fair Oaks and then one year ago we moved from our formerly great but a bit too small location at the corner of El Camino Avenue on Fair Oaks Blvd. to a 20,000 sf. warehouse with large yard fronting Highway 50 at Sunrise in Gold River. We couldn't pass up such an opportunity as we had to get this large facility! We have a large warehouse and this is where we receive your chemicals, equipment, nets, plaster, computer equipment, plumbing,electrical, finishes, fire pots, umbrellas, fences and grout and where we do the general accounting with office and project management. We use specialized pool business software to keep track of pool routes, accounting, pool building and pool design. We'll be setting up the new location with working demo pools and spas with all the goodies to show you, the customer just as we had on Fair Oaks Blvd. with our fountain. We just need to squeeze that in with building new pools and doing remodels for others.
There are few companies like Pool Time. Pool Time sits with you in the Living Room and designs the pool on a laptop, and then follows through so that the pool you see on the laptop is the pool that ends up in the backyard, front yard or in the living room. Once that pool is designed, built and filled with water, we can be there to service that pool forever, or you can buy a test kit and pour chemicals in the pool and teach your children how to do it for you.. It's up to you. We don't push you either way. If you want to learn how to program your automated pool/spa/solar/cover/waterfalls/ lights/pool sweep we can setup the WiFi to connect to your home network. We'll also do safety fences, and nets.
Special Offer:
If you're a future customer, call us at 916-638-POOL and get 3 months free pool service for your first year. That works out to be 25% off your first year and with no contract.
Some folks think their backyard could be better utilized but live with it spring after spring. They don't realize that with a bulldozer we can make that backyard anything you want it to be and in as little as a month you can have a new swimming pool sitting in the backyard. One month is VERY optimistic and we don't see it that often, but it can and does happen. We can remodel the existing pool by adding steps, adding jets, adding and removing lights, change the decking to tile or concrete, change the finish to a nice pebble bottom, or worse case take it out and put in another in a completely different location! You can have nice quiet pumps, solar heating,waterfalls, water laminars, bubblers, LED lights, fire pots, fire pits, and your spa will have high pressure water and air bubbles warmed to the perfect temperature at the time you choose, and all of this controlled by computer and transmitted to WiFi and you can access on your Apple, Google, Linux or Microsoft devices. We work with landscapers and help you with proper plant placement to complete the backyard, so you can enjoy the pool year round and don't have the wrong plants and trees for a pool, and if you do, have a pool cover to mitigate that situation. We can deal with your high-end BBQ and external spa if that's what you have and that's what you want. We can move things around and make power and gas available where it's convenient. That's Joe Pagluica there at the Cal Expo Home and Garden Show speaking about pool finishes. He's the skipper of Pool Time and he's the busiest man I know, but Don is right there with him as are many more at Pool Time. No slackers here except maybe that webmaster. If you have a pool but no spa, we can also add that to a remodel!
If you need help with financing, we're working with HFS Financial to help get you the money you need to put in this water wonder. Give them a call at 1-800-860-1207 or visit their website. You can fill out an application on this link and be approved in no time and ready for the construction! It's like any real estate transaction, you fill out an application and sign. They do a credit report and background investigation, you get approved, you sign and all kinds of legal stuff gets recorded and you sign our paperwork and you write checks or the bank writes checks and magically the pool gets built. Our friends at HFSFinancial can help you with that portion.https://www.hfsfinancial.net/promo/pooltime
The pool business is like a large family in Sacramento. People move around. We're hiring. If you're a seasoned pool designer, subcontractor, general office worker, project manager, pool service technician, graphic arts, send an anonymous resume and/or letter of interest and maybe we can talk about Pool Time and You. Send that resume directly to Joe at firstname.lastname@example.com. That's his personal email. Don does a magnificent job of designing pools and if you want one of the best in the business to design your pool, you're making a good decision. Don can still hand draw backyards and pools…He's a true artist while being able to know what needs to happen for an idea to turn into a reality in the shortest time frame. He and his wife live in Del Dayo Estates. Pool building runs in his blood. Pool Time has a good energy around it with seasoned pool people from Sacramento and even some from other places too. Come join us.
A Day at Pool Time:
We get started after 6 in the morning and most are going by 7:15. The security cameras go from infra-red to color as the lights come on for either Joe or Brian as they always lead the pack. Our Service Manager, Brian is usually the first to show up at 6:45 while Joe may or may not have been there earlier each day. In the back, Oscar and Hector and others are getting equipment and chemicals ready for the day. Brian prints out the routes and repairs and gets the guys out before sunrise cleaning pools, adding chemicals, and keeping an eye out for any issues. Joe and Don lead the pool builders as they prepare for a full day of everything from digging to plastering. Nina's here at 7am sharp and helps coordinate the guys as they head out to do repairs, installations, remodels, chemicals, cleaning. Once Hector and the guys are in the field (7:15), Don and Joe talk to people all day long when they're not designing pools, dealing with a government agency, keeping status of a pool build or whatnot or contacting you. Tristen does project management and plans and costs jobs
and does video and post production in the marketing department. Nina works with supply and demand and "on time" projects. She also runs the purchasing department and deals with vendors. She works with Tristen and the sales staff to keep the project on time and on budget and on time as best as
possible. Don, Joe, Lisa, and Justin have designed and installed some beautiful pools and gorgeous remodels, and placed them ideally for the environment and the enjoyment. Tristen specializes in remodels and has a full start to finished video he will post here on a special page for remodels. Tommy and Florenzio are out artistically laying the beautiful tile. Eileen answers the phone, does accounting, scheduling, and helping with any issue
that needs attention. She deals with credit and banking issues. Rebecca does special assignments and projects and has a strong marketing background. She's working on getting us to communicate with you on a more regular basis and you can sign up for our newsletter once we get the new software completed. She brings us a taste of successful corporate America. The software she's using is I-Contact.
oe's son Joey works here. He's learning the business the way his father Joe did…servicing pools and now repairs with Fred, after spending over a year cleaning and servicing pools. He graduated from Rio Americano. Fred does repairs. Fred's gone from dawn to dusk repairing pools. Joe inspects pools and deals with corporate issues and is one of the busiest men I've ever seen. Joe keeps track of everything and his desk is perfectly arranged with paperwork in a system that he uses that makes sure that the business continues. He's organized, dedicated, and enthusiastic. He is personable and a joy to be around. He has a smile for every occasion. Joe Pooltime is what they call Joe, and you can still email him at his original aol account email@example.com. That's his personal account.
Is Pool Time perfect? Does Pool Time make mistakes? No…but people sometimes do and if that happens we want to make things right for all concerned, quickly, so you can say you had a good experience with us and we can do the same about you. Otherwise we wouldn't have made it over 20 years. We have 23 trucks in the Sacramento Area and that means that at least 23 families rely on our company. Some of our trucks carry 4 men. We started with 1 truck. Our payroll is approaching 50 right now. Fifty families rely on Pool Time and even more…you who are having a pool built, serviced, or you who are our friends at Swimming Pool Corporation (SPC), Katch-A-Kid, All-Safe, Wells Fargo, the many many Realtors, StoneScapes, Sta-Rite, Pentair, Jandy, Matsubu, West Host, and even our deal friends who issue the precious permits and inspect the pools. And who can forget AT&T, Comcast, IRS, Board of Equalization, Franchise Tax Board, and SMUD and the big one…DMV.
We're expecting to build a record number of pools this year and service a record number of those that we didn't build. Joe, there to the left does ALL of the pool inspections. Joe brings his 25 years of experience to inspect the pool for a real estate closing or other reason. He charges $200 and you can email him at mailto://email@example.com You'll get a written inspection signed by a contractor licensed with the State Of California …Here's the link for inspections: http://www.pooltimepoolspa.com/?p=1976
What time is it? It's Pool Time!
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