BootB is proud to present its new enhanced Registration and Profile systems, available starting March 20, 2010. Back in December 2009 we promised to improve the BootB user experience, and thanks to the efforts of our tireless programmers, this is just one of the many improvements we’ll be implementing in 2010.

The online Registration System has been significantly upgraded, offering a simpler, more convenient process. For our longstanding users, you can feel more confident than ever recommending BootB – the Republic of Unlimited Creativity – to your peers. Spread the word! The broader the BootB network becomes, the better it will work for everyone!

Our previous Profile System will make room for this new system. An upcoming release organizes user data into tabs, neatly structuring the “My Profile” page. Here is a brief overview:

Public Profile: We’re always curious to learn more about our users. We strongly encourage you to complete your public profile and upload an avatar that will put a recognizable “face” on your username. This is an opportunity for Brands to show off their logos and for Creators to express their creativity! You’ll see that we’ve even included scores for each field in this section.

Manage Account: Here you can change your BootB password, email and interface language.

Legal Data : Filling out this section is a requirement for using the platform: Brands cannot start Pitches and Creators cannot publish Solutions until they’ve filled in this section of their Profile. This is because everyone working through BootB is protected legally (respectively the Brand Agreement and Creator Agreement), and we must have accurate information about the people we’re doing business with. This applies to all our users, including Brands and Creators who have already worked with us in the past.

Manage my Brands (Brands only): This section enables companies to manage multiple brand names and/or products under the same account. You can connect a Pitch to one of your additional brand names, or start a new Pitch as “Anonymous” when you want to keep your identity a secret.

Our tech whizzes have taken every precaution while implementing this new Profile System. However we encourage you to verify your data after March 20 to make sure the transformation has gone smoothly.

Don’t be afraid to tell us what you think! On the off chance you encounter bugs or abnormal software behavior, please contact us at info@bootb.com.

Last but not least, we want to take this chance to let you know that we will be working late into the night on March 19 to implement these new Registration and Profile Systems. While we do so, the BootB website will be unavailable to the public for roughly 2 hours (11pm - 1am GMT). We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, and we look forward to seeing you online starting early on March 20!

This important message is for all of you who use your computer to tell a visual story – from web-designers to video producers. Are you an artist with technical mastery over digital tools? A computer graphics passionate with digital media experience?

Are you familiar with any of these?

∞ Web-design
∞ Mobile applications
∞ Digital Audio – sound tracks and effects
∞ Digital Still Images
∞ Moving Images Language
∞ Digital Video
∞ Storytelling with Animation (including 3D)
∞ Digital Characters Creation
∞ Advanced Photorealism

If yes – for sure you will want to know that www.BootB.com has loads of super captivating digital pitches in the pipeline! If you didn’t register with us yet, make sure you do so that you can start capitalizing on your passion.

This is only one of the crushing but true statements Hugh Macleod does through creative cartoons. While surfing around the web we ran into his blog and we thought you might want to see some of his art drawn on the back of business cards.

Simple words and some scribbles – this all he needs to express complex subjects like emotions, business challenges, angst, love.

“Merit can be bought. Passion can’t” – we couldn’t agree more! This is just one of the many precious tips Hugh Macleod is giving from his own experience to those who want to be more creative in art, business or whatever. If you are interested to see more check http://gapingvoid.com/.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Interested to you know where you stand, how can you improve your ranking or just curious how it works? Answers to all of that are available on the Top Creators page - the list is refreshed every Monday!

You’re not yet among the 150 most successful BootB Creators? What are you waiting for – there are many open pitches waiting for your creative input. Now is a good time to shake the Top!

Keep checking it regularly and work on moving up in the rankings!

It might look like we are challenging mathematics here but actually we are proud to celebrate the one year anniversary for the BootB Blog!

It is hard to believe one year has passed since we have posted our first entry on this blog! So much has happened since November 2008: we have seen people wearing BootB T-shirts all over the world, we have shared news, events, short-lists and winning solutions with you, we got to know better our best Creators through interviews and last but not least we have rocked the BootB party together!

No doubt it is easy to lose track of time when there are numberless moments to celebrate!

This anniversary it is not just an occasion to look back but to look forward as well! BootB intends to share many more special moments with you. We are expecting the upcoming year to bring a lot of exciting news for all our users!!

Keep being unlimitedly curious!!! :)

Today is a big day! We are pleased to announce the new BootB Home page! We know you didn’t see that coming but we were working hard on this major release and we’ve preferred to keep it secret so we can surprise you in the end :)

It is not because of the soon to arrive winter season that we’ve decided to change BootB’s “coat” :) It is because we wanted to refresh its “look n’ feel”. Plus we had a lot of enthusiastic feedback to incorporate! A big THANK YOU to our committed users. Please keep that feedback coming!

And this is just the beginning, we didn’t relax yet! We have other improvements on the roadmap!

Hangar Bicocca (via Chiese, Milano, Italy)

11.11.2+0+0+9 (=11 :)
9:20 pm

Registration Form

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Today we publish the second issue of BootB Rating. And… we have new leader!

This issue (exactly as the previous one) is based only on objective facts: number of wins, number of additionally bought Solutions and number of kept Solutions (you can read more on what they mean in the “BootB (non boring :) training about icons for your Solutions” blog post). As these facts represent the results achieved by BootB Creators, we decided to call it BootB Success Rating.

We understand also all those who are interested in knowing who is the most creative talent on BootB and not only who achieved the best results. So, we are thinking about a different system that we plan to introduce to you later. We are thinking to name it BootB Creativity Rating (but any citizen feels free to suggest a different name like in a real republic!)

So, now we share with you a list!

77Agency, a leading digital marketing agency in Europe, organized a seminar on Facebook for marketers in London on July 2nd. The main speaker, Josh Smith, Head of Inside Sales @ Facebook, talked on the fast European growth of Facebook and the demographics of the UK audience, but also dealt with the advertising possibilities on the platform and the use of fan pages. He gave the audience a few examples on how brands use the platform to enhance consumer engagement and build brand equity.

BootB was invited as guest speaker as well to talk about the power of crowdsourcing in the social media sphere. Pier Ludovico Bancale, founder & CEO of BootB, explained in front of marketers from companies and organizations such as Nokia, The Post Office, Barclays Global Investors, The London Science Museum, Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline how BootB platform can help brands to find out-of-the-Box creative solutions.

Here is Pier’s feedback about the event:

It was really an extraordinary workshop. How to harness the creativity crowdsourcing of BootB, that becomes reality thanks to the expertise of 77agency and reaches 200 million users thanks to the phenomenal Facebook. Fantastic experience … to be repeated!

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77Agency kicks off Knowledge Sharing Events with a “Facebook for Marketers” seminar in London!