Flogs is een jong en innovatief bedrijf dat internationaal hard aan het groeien is. Flogs biedt bedrijven de mogelijkheid om hun digitale agenda’s (sport kalenders, vliegtickets, theather voorstellingen etc…) middels een complete kalendar synchronisatie service direct bij de consumenten in de digitale agenda te synchronizeren welke vervolgens automatisch up to date wordt gehouden. Flogs werkt onder andere voor de volgende klanten: FOX Sports, Hallmark, Eredivisie, MotoGP, Theather Carre.

Locatie: Amsterdam

Binnen de technische afdeling van Flogs wordt altijd gezocht naar innovatieve oplossingen. Er heerst geen 9 tot 5 mentaliteit en ons team is erg gedreven om kwalitatieve webapplicaties neer te zetten.

We zijn op zoek naar iemand die zelfstandig, duurzame softwareoplossingen kan ontwikkelen.

Taken:

• Ontwikkelen en doorontwikkelen van volledig webbased applicaties voor internet;
• Zorg dragen voor het testen en de nazorg van de webapplicaties;
• Technisch vormgeven en inrichten van datastructuren ter behoeve van de website;
• Koppelen van informatie uit bestaande databases aan web toepassingen;
• Waarborgen van de kwaliteit van de webapplicaties;
• Bestaande API’s van externe partijen kunnen toekennen binnen de Flogs website / applicatie.

Eisen aan de kandidaat:

• HBO / WO werk en denkniveau;
• Affiniteit met ontwikkeling van webapplicaties;
• Affiniteit met OOP, software design patterns (bv. Model View Controller) is vereist;
• Je moet het leuk vinden om gezonde software te schrijven;
• Minimaal 3 jaar ervaring met PHP, (My)SQL, Javascript (jQuery is een pre);
• Inventief en creatief in het vinden van oplossingen;
• Goede communicatieve vaardigheden;
• Zelfstandig kunnen werken;
• Ervaring met het Zend Framework zijn een pre;
• Ervaring met Test Driven Development is een pre;
• Ervaring met tenminste een medium sized project (3 maanden) is een pre;
• Kennis van Linux is een pre;

Je krijgt een goede werksfeer met gedreven en ervaren collega’s. Uiteraard bieden we goede primaire- en secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden, salaris is marktconform.

Dienstverband: Vast

Interesse stuur een email naar: bram@flogs.com – Werving en selectiebureaus niet reageren.

Quite a bit has changed, and we want you to know about the things that are most important.

Fair is Fair
Every Flogs user and subscriber is unique, and every customer has different needs. We’ve split our services into categories, based on features, usage, traffic and other data. Subscribing to Flogs calendars will still be free, but we’ve established new account plans for companies who host their calendars and events with us. Choose the account plan that’s right for you.

Cool new features
We don’t just offer unmatched calendar synchronization services. We’ve also got some cool new features we think you’ll love:

Easy calendar import Flogs is a fully supported tool for your event management. CMS integrations and access to our API are standard in our packages.  Add and edit events at any time. Our technology will synchronize your changes to keep your subscribers’ calendars up-to-date.
	Gain Insight See how many subscribers your calendar has gained over time. Adjust your widget placement or improve communication to increase the numbers.  Get statistics about the platforms your subscribers use most. Is it Outlook, iCal or something else? And more.
Embed Embed your calendar directly into your website or applications by using your CMS. Simply copy and paste your calendar widget code and start attracting subscribers.  Want to get the most subscribers to your calendar? It’s all about where you embed your widget and how to activate it.

What does it all mean?
If you host your event calendars on Flogs.com, and you’re over any of the limits set in our Free package, you’ll get an email from us soon, asking whether you want to upgrade your service or keep it the way it is.
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the new Flogs.com. If you have any questions or suggestions,please let us know.

The Flogs Team

3 mei 2012, Amsterdam: Het Amsterdamse bedrijf Flogs International is sinds vandaag verantwoordelijk voor de digitale verspreiding van het televisieschema van één van de grootste sportzenders ter wereld, Fox Sports. Flogs.com ontwikkelde voor het Amerikaanse mediaconcern een digitale tool, die het televisieschema per regio, tijdzone, netwerk en tv-provider synchroniseert met de digitale agenda van de consument. Hiertoe tekende Flogs.com een driejarige overeenkomst met FOX Sports om de tool op maat te maken.

“De programmering in Amerika is ontzettend complex door de verschillende tijdzones, regio’s en tv providers,” zo laat CEO Toon Timmermans weten. “Het was nog geen enkel bedrijf gelukt om die complexiteit te vangen in een handige online tool. Gelukkig wisten wij FOX Sports in een vroeg stadium te overtuigen dat wij de juiste partner voor het karwei zijn. Ze zijn in Amerika erg enthousiast over het geleverde product”.

De tool van van Flogs.com is compatible met Microsoft Outlook, iPhone, Facebook, Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla T-bird, Mac OSX/iCal, Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, Windows live en BlackBerry. De tool is onder andere te bekijken via de website van Fox Sports.

Flogs.com speelt zich met de ontwikkeling ook in de kijker van de andere Amerikaanse grootmachten. Naast FOX Sports heeft het in Amsterdam gevestigde bedrijf reeds interesse gewekt bij televisiezenders zoals ABC, NBC en ESPN. “Er was in een eerder stadium al interesse van deze zenders,” zo weet Timmermans. “Zij zijn dan ook erg nieuwsgierig naar het resultaat van onze samenwerking met FOX Sports.”

Lancering nieuwe website
De live gang op de negentien websites van FOX Sports valt nagenoeg samen met de herlancering van de website Flogs.com. Met een nieuwe kapitaalinjectie en een aanscherping van het businessmodel boort Flogs.com een hele nieuwe markt aan. “De rebuild van de website van Flogs.com heeft geresulteerd in een SaaS platform. Iedereen die met de Flogs.com software aan de slag wil, heeft daar vrije toegang toe. De mate van gebruik en gekozen opties / tools bepalen uiteindelijk of de gebruiker daar ook voor betaald,” aldus de CEO.

Never forget a birthday
Not knowing exactly when your friends birthdays are and you have a Facebook account? With the ‘Hallmark Birthday Calendar’ you now have an easy and convenient way to never forget a birthday again. By subscribing to your friends birthdays you automatically add the birthdays directly in to your digital calendar, the application takes care of newly added friends and automatically updates your digital calendar

Advantages of the ‘Hallmark Birthday Calendar’
Adding and keeping birthdays in a calendar full of meetings, appointments with friends and sports is complicated, the “Hallmark Birthday Calendar” is doing it for you. You can add all your Facebook events directly in to your digital calendar as well, share your own birthday with others and add all your friends’ birthdays to your own digital calendar. In addition you can even add holiday calendars to your calendar.

To sum it all up

The ‘Hallmark Birthday Calendar’ supports the following digital calendar clients: Microsoft Outlook 2000-2003 / 2007 / 2010, iCal, Google Calendar, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, Windows Live and many other calendar clients.

Cooperation Hallmark Cards and Flogs
For more than 100 years, Hallmark Cards has helped people connect with one another and give voice to their feelings. This combined with the excellent opportunity to work with Flogs and making the crossover to new online channels (digital calendar) is what made Hallmark Cards and Flogs decide to develop the ‘Hallmark Birthday Calendar’ Facebook application.

With this cooperation the two companies took one step further in the ways of congratulating somebody on his birthday. It is the first time that such services are merged. The application is free and accessible via this link: http://apps.facebook.com/flogslive

After our last award competition where we won a Red Herring award, both Europe and World Wide. We are now in the race for a Accenture Innovation Award. This award is one the most prestigious media, communication and high tech awards in the Netherlands and is awarded with a ‘Blue Tulip’.

More can be read here: Our profile (in Dutch) and the company’s website: The company

Since 3:00 www.flogs.com is online again. After a day and night of hard work at our data center we solved the issue.

Due to failure of a hardware component in our servers we had to replace some parts manually at our data center.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

With kind regards,

Bram van Gestel, CIO Flogs.com

As you probably noticed our website www.flogs.com is down, this is caused by a hardware failure in our servers.

After a short period of maintenance we noticed that one of our servers was broken. We can’t say how long it will take, but we are working on a solution. We aim to solve the problem before the end of the day.

With kind regards,

Bram van Gestel, CIO Flogs.com

The results were amazing! Compared to a normal day, the subscribers on these specific calendars were huge.

Let the graphics speak for itself.

This graphic of MotoGP shows a huge conversion on the calendar from the moment they placed a wallpost on Facebook (March 8).

This graphic shows a huge conversion on the calendar by placing a post on Twitter.

As you can see the effects of Social Media are clearly a boost for subscribers to your digital calendar. A simple and low cost method to engage with your fans.

• Results:
  • A boost of subscribers on these specific calendars are 600% more than average
  • The combination of postings by several clients as well on Facebook as on Twitter was very successfull
  • Shares & retweets from fans around the world
  • Fans can react and engage directly on your message
  • A conversion of 1% of all likes & retweets

• What was the effort the clients had to make?
  • 1 Facebook wall post on their Facebook pages
  • 1 tweet on their Twitter channel
  • A sense of timing (just before a match or during half time)

For more information about Real Madrid and how they used Facebook and Twitter see: http://bit.ly/bAeJ8p

PS: Have you seen this interesting video about Facebook? http://ti.me/eXMVk3

]]> http://blog.flogshq.com/2011/04/facebook-twitter-a-result-of-a-short-campaign/feed/ 1 http://blog.flogshq.com/2011/03/how-real-madrid-uses-twitter-and-facebook-to-promote-their-calendar/ http://blog.flogshq.com/2011/03/how-real-madrid-uses-twitter-and-facebook-to-promote-their-calendar/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:04:45 +0000 admin http://blog.flogshq.com/?p=429 Ok, so we know you want to connect as much fans to your digital calendar as possible. We’ve been getting quite a lot of questions on how to promote your digital calendar properly via Twitter and Facebook. We are pleased to tell you about one of our leading examples, Real Madrid. Their approach leads to pretty awesome results and we think this is only the beginning, since Facebook is hot and Twitter is gaining relevance and we see conversion rates rising.

What were the results?

• Facebook: 250% increase in digital calendar downloads (above average)
• Twitter: 400% increase in digital calendar downloads (above average)
• A share from various fans (an effect of spreading your message without the effort you have to make)

What did the Real Madrid team do to get this result?

• Facebook
  • Send one wallpost to their 8.618.510 fans
  • Good timing in making the wallpost. In the afternoon just before a match is the best time.
  • Twitter
    • Send one tweet to their 1.118.510 followers
    • Good timing in sending the tweet: right before the start of a match and during half time brake.

What was the message?

• Facebook
  • Never miss a Real Madrid game in 2011 with @Flogs. Use Flogs to sync your digital calendar with the team’s La Liga, Copa del Rey & Champions league fixtures! Sign up now! http://bit.ly/a1cz8K
    
• Twitter
  • ¿No quieres perderte un sólo partido del Real Madrid? ¡usa @Flogs! http://bit.ly/a1cz8K #realmadrid
  • Do you hate missing a Real Madrid match? Are you tired of looking up the time and date for every game? Then use @Flogs! http://bit.ly/a1cz8K
    

Three more practical Twitter tips by our marketing department:

• Facebook
  • Keep track of your 380 character limit. If you use a link, bit.ly or not, the system automatically displays a picture related to the link. Sometime you can choose your image.
  • When you name a person or other account, tag them by name, so you help people find the relevant information. Don’t worry, you will not lose them. Instead you’ll gain more trust.
  • Twitter
    • Keep track of your 140 character limit. When you use a bit.ly link, that already uses 20 characters. If you want to get retweeted easily, count “RT @Username:” along with the original tweet.
    • Use hashtags like they are extra keywords or tags, for example #realmadrid. This way, more people can find you, via http://search.twitter.com and conversations.
    • When you name a person or other account, put an “@” in front of that name, so you help people find the relevant information. Don’t worry, you will not lose them. Instead you’ll gain more trust.

And yes, as you can see, Twitter is by far the most effective channel.

Red Herring’s Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay and many others would change the way we live and work.

“Choosing the best out of the previous three years was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,200 potential companies to 200 finalists.  Trying to get it down to 100 companies was a task upon itself.  Flogs should be extremely proud of its achievement, the competition was difficult.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the greatest business opportunities from around the world.

“We feel honoured to be part of this list. It is a confirmation that we’re on the right track. This award already led to valuable conversations with current and future clients and investors”, according to CEO Toon Timmermans.  “Besides picking up the Red Herring 100 Europe Award last June, we are now amongst the 100 most promising Tech companies on a global scale. It’s a great encouragement for the whole team.”

We would like to congratulate the other two Dutch Winners, Service2media and Civolution as well.

Ok…..now it’s time for some celebration…..and pick up the pace! Expect a lot more from us soon!