Were You There? Indianapolis Colts Fan Cam 360 Degree Taggable Image
Roger Bishop just shared something that I think is very cool from the Indianapolis Colts. During last week’s final regular season game against the Tennessee Titans, they took a 360° giga-pixel (5 billion pixel image to be exact) image of the fans at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Photo Credit: Colts.com Fan Cam
As you can kind of see from all the little smiley faces on the photo, you can zoom in and find yourself in the stands and then tag the photo that you were there.
I think this is a very cool idea. I’ve seen similar events, like BlogIndiana, where a large group photo is taken and then shared on Facebook, then attendees are encouraged to tag themselves in the photos. With the functions of Facebook, this allows the photo, and ultimately the event, to be widely promoted on the network. The same can be true of the Colts organization sharing this photo. Hopefully they’ll be doing this for all future games.
Colts owner Jim Irsay has been getting some media attention lately with his activity on Twitter. Also at the Titans game, they gave away a Toyota Prius and $4000 cash to one of his Twitter followers after they correctly guessed the number of footballs that were stuffed into the Prius, a promotion that some may consider genius. Others may think the sometimes incoherent ramblings by Irsay on Twitter are reminiscent of those of Paula Abdul on American Idol’s judging panel. I on the other hand think both individuals are just unique human beings and I enjoy hearing what they have to say most of the time.
Church Brothers Driving Indianapolis Business with Social Media
I had a great experience a couple of weeks ago with Church Brothers Collision Repair. I had seen that they were on twitter and sent them a quick message asking if they repaired broken seatbelt retractors.
They responded that they did so I let them know I would plan on coming into their downtown location to have them give me an estimate.
When I walked in to the location, Danyel greeted me warmly and I let her know that I was interested in getting a quote on repairing my seatbelt in my car. She confirmed that I was the person that asked about it on twitter and I asked if she was the one that managed the account.
Danyel said no but that their corporate office was looking to use twitter more to interact with customers and potential customers and they contacted her because I said I’d probably stop by their location today.
Danyel got a specialist, Wes, to come out and look at my car and see what I needed with my seatbelt. While he was looking at the car I also asked him about replacing some of the interior door handles that were starting to crack and break. Wes worked up a quote for me on the price for replacing the items and the labor involved. I couldn’t have asked for any better customer service and interaction from Danyel and Wes. They both did a tremendous job.
What a great extension of using twitter to work with customers, then build on that interaction by letting locations know to expect that customer and to reinforce the positive experience of using twitter.
Bravo and kudos to the Church Brothers Collision Repair team for making my experience with their company and absolutely positive one.
Now I just have to figure out how I’m going to pay the money to get the new seatbelt mechanism replaced and installed. Seat belts aren’t important are they? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Red Bull Wakeboards on the Canal
Wakeboarding on the Indy canal? Ummm, it’s shallow and not big enough for a boat right? You’re right, but that doesn’t stop JD Webb, Brian Grubb and the rest of the Red Bull team from making it happen.
Not only is it cool to see, but the quality of the video production is also very impressive. Red Bull does some great stuff and does it very well!
Hat tip to @Coxymoney, @david_bdml on twitter that I saw mention this in the last hour or so.
