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November 20, 2009 • Posted by Erica Adams

November 2009 Twitter Contest Winners

The monthly Twitter contest is back and we have 3 winners! We stated, "We now have 4 "frequency" options when setting up a recurring contribution to your goal. Name one." We had all correct answers (you can contribute monthly, twice-monthly, every 14 days and none), from over 120 people - we had a big list to randomize!

Since it's almost Thanksgiving, we decided to hunt some turkeys for our 3 $100 gift card winners:

Congratulations TheOneTruePax, wigstheone, and stlcolleen! Please DM us your address via Twitter, so we may send your $100 SmartyPig gift cards!

Thanks for everyone who played and good luck next month. Here are those that made it into the top 20: animeclubmusic, parterburn, brianf80, Debonair1, RealBernieAdams, molliesc, markevaul, artificialrobot, schippers, rcooper, sweetjean, veddebra, ericos, d_skaggs, twigglesMG, jamsmac and ronymirzaians76.

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October 2, 2009 • Posted by Michael Ferrari

Groundbreaking Social Features Launched!

On Tuesday of this week, I gave a first glimpse into some of our new social features we've been working on to those in attendance at Finovate in NYC. And today I'm excited to announce that they are now LIVE! These new features exist in your profile under a new tab called "Sharing".

SmartyPig: New Sharing Tab

Facebook and Twitter Integration

New features introduced today expand on SmartyPig's existing social media functionality and are a first in the banking industry! SmartyPig users now have the option to securely connect their existing Twitter and/or Facebook account to any goals that they have chosen to share with friends and family. When Twitter is connected to a shared SmartyPig goal, SmartyPig will automatically post to that Twitter account any time funds are added towards meeting a goal. The Facebook connect feature works similarly, posting to the Facebook user's wall every time funds are added towards meeting a goal that they have chosen to share. The best part about this connectivity is that the posts and tweets happen automatically. So even if you are not logged in to your SmartyPig, Twitter or Facebook account, SmartyPig will continue to post tweets and wall posts on your behalf when funds have been added to your goal. Again, this type of connectivity is a first in the banking space so we are really excited to get your feedback. Check out the screen shots below from my own personal account! Connecting to your Facebook or Twitter account is simple. Here's the Facebook and Twitter connect pages.

SmartyPig: Facebook Share Page - not conneceted

SmartyPig: Twitter Share Page - not conneceted

Once connected, the page expands and you can now select the goals you would like SmartyPig to post/tweet on your behalf. In addition, you can include a link to your SmartyPig sharing page, so friends and family can easily contribute to your goal!

SmartyPig: Facebook Share Page - connected

SmartyPig: Twitter Share Page - connected

And here is an example of what a tweet and wall post looks like to your friends and followers, anytime funds are added to your goal (via recurring monthly contribution, one-time adds of money and gifts from family and friends).

SmartyPig: Facebook Wall Post

SmartyPig: Twitter Tweet

Enhanced Widget

Second, we heard loud and clear that you wanted more customizable options for the widget so we completely enhanced the widget creation process. As of today, we launched an entirely new customizable widget that allows you to include multiple goals, customize messaging and graphics, link to your SmartyPig sharing page and integrate with over 28 social destinations like Facebook, MySpace, blogger and more. Here is the widget creation page:

SmartyPig: Widget Creation

And here is a sample widget:

SmartyPig: Widget

Setting and achieving a goal is a very empowering experience and many of you enjoy involving your friends and family in the process. Please test run the new Facebook and Twitter connect features and enhanced widget and let us know what you think.

Thanks!

Mike Ferrari, co-founder
@mferrari

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• twitter

• facebook

• widget

• social

• new

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August 21, 2009 • Posted by Michael Ferrari

Friday's Winners Announced!

$100 SmartyPig Gift Card

Thanks to everyone for playing this week. It's been a lot of fun. After 15 minutes of play and over 100 answers, we've got our winners!

The question was:
The Iowa State Fair was cancelled in 1898 due to the World's Fair which occurred in what state?

And the answer:
Nebraska

And the winners are...

Congrats to the winners! Winners please send an email to support@smartypig.com with your shipping address to where we can ship the gift card.

Thanks again and have a great weekend!

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• twitter

• contest

• iowa state fair

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August 21, 2009 • Posted by Michael Ferrari

Friday State Fair Twitter Contest!

Iowa State Fair

It's day five and our LAST DAY of the weeklong twitter contest in honor of the world famous Iowa State Fair!

SmartyPig is giving away 3 - $100 gift cards every day this week in honor of the world famous Iowa State Fair (Home of the Butter Cow, birthplace of the corn dog - and only a cow chip toss away from SmartyPig's corporate offices!). We will tweet a question and give our followers 15 minutes to reply to us.

The format:

After 15 minutes, we will be picking 3 random winners with a number generator from the pool of correct answers.
We'll post the winners here on our blog.

Make sure: