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  • Product Review: The Starbys App Makes Me :)!

    Product Review: The Starbys App Makes Me :)!

    Sooo…it’s Peppermint Mocha time at Starbys and I love love looooove red cups. Imagine my sheer glee when I realized that I can not only pay for a venti with my phone, BUT that I can send one via the world wide web to a high school friend who lives 10 hours away…Neat-o!

    Starbucks App InterfaceYup, Starbucks has an app. (Well, actually they have three, but I’ll go into that later.) Two of my favorite things combined — technology + coffee =  download ASAP.

    It’s free and it’s in the App store. The interface is very user-friendly and does a little bit/LOT of everything. Here’s a list of features:

    1. Drinks: Create and store your favorite drinks AND those of your friends
    2. Favorites: Create and store locations, coffee types and foods
    3. Coffees: Get full descriptions, photos and recommendations for the entire line of Starbucks Coffees
    4. Food: Find nutritional, allergens and calorie info for foods available at Starbucks
    5. Drinks: Create and store customized drink builder with nutritional information using a step by step process
    6. Jobs: They have a pretty green brand…
    7. Settings: Your profile
    8. Help: Help
    9. Scanner: Hellooooooo, QR Code scanner…LOVE
    10. My Card: Store card and transaction history, PLUS allows easy balance reload by storing card info
    11. Rewards: Birthday Coffee?! Yes… I’m so in!
    12. Gifts: Brighten someone’s day – no matter how far away they live!
    13. Stores: Location, location, location…
    14. It’s sustainable – no cards, no paper, just environmental goodness

    Starbucks App Gift Long story short, if you love coffee or know someone who might enjoy getting a coffee, you might want this app. You can gift, buy and discover all things Starbucks Coffee. I am a Starbucks maniac and had heard about the app from a friend a few months ago. Since I first downloaded, I’ve tracked over $100 in purchases, reloaded and surprised a friend with a free coffee on his Facebook wall.

    Aside from Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks seems have the coffee company app market cornered. In comparison, the Dunkin’ Donuts app is limited to locating stores and feedback via a discussion forum, versus the fully customizable interactive app from Starbucks.

    A word of caution, as I mentioned before there are three Starbucks apps available; the actual Starbucks App, the Starbucks Card App, and the interactive Christmas Starbucks App, for the real brand enthusiasts.

    To locate and install the correct app, just search for Starbucks and look for the green mermaid. Or, download right now.

    (Oh, and if you want to test it out, feel free to send me a coffee…shannon@redbridgeonline.com…yes? No?)

     

  • 4 Seriously Inspiring Tweeters From Today

    4 Seriously Inspiring Tweeters From Today

    4 Seriously Inspiring Tweeters From Today

    I wake up at 5am, just so I can do absolutely nothing but be inspired by Twitter for a minimum of 2 hours every morning. And, so far so good. There are some seriously inspiring things being said between the hours of 5 to 7am. Here are my favs from this morning’s lounge-about-and-stretch-like-a-cat session.

    1. @ruhanirabin

    Today’s tweet: “Because your heart is so beautiful, everything looks beautiful to you.” ~ Japanese proverb

    You can’t read this and NOT just look around and love life! So many people spend so much time focusing on the negative, when, for every negative there is a positive. You really can choose what you focus on. Choose the beautiful stuff. It makes your heart smile and you can truly look around and say, What a Wonderful World. Thanks @ruhanirabin – for the reminder to focus on important things.

    2. @MichaelReagan. His Twitter bio says he gets stuff done before 8am.

    Today’s tweet: “Finished Boot Camp. Worked out on the TRX system again today. Amazing way to exercise!”

    So, this morning, while lounging and reading this, I sent him a quick, “Good job!” It’s pretty unlikely that I’ll be doing any TRX (what is that anyway?), but tomorrow morning…I’ll be take a quick jog around the neighborhood. So thank you @MichaelReagan, for the inspiration. Cheers to good health – and leading by example. :)

    3. @celestialbeard

    Today’s tweet: “when I approach the 140 character limit I start typing more quietly (but not slower) in the hopes that twitter won’t notice”

    Inspiring for two reasons…1.) Hello! Celestial Beard? You KNOW you can’t have a name like that without having something along the lines of Led Zepplin. I hope hope hope he posts a pic of that…soon. Oh, and 2.) Clearly a rebel! He’s not afraid to test the limits – maybe timidly…but still testing nonetheless. I like this. MUCH. Thank you inspiring rebel with heavenly facial hair!

    4. @FasTake

    Today’s tweet: “@FasTake: 5 Amazing Eco-Friendly Office Buildings of the Future http://fstk.it/q1RdW ”

    So, my thing about large commercial buildings is that they account for about 18% of energy use and the average building has a life span of about 40-50 years. So, I’m inspired by anyone who’s leading the industry in energy-efficient building design and sustainability. Earth is a pretty cool blue and green marble and we all like oxygen, so…cup up to little footprints and eco-friendliness in any form. :)

    The moral of the morning – stretch, look on the bright side, be good to your body, test boundaries, and don’t forget to love the planet. That’s a pretty great morning, ya? :)