The Business Case for Connecting Employees' Personal Smartphones
It now makes sense with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express
As more and more employees purchase personal BlackBerry® smartphones savvy businesses see an opportunity for a low-cost productivity boost. Connecting such personal smartphones has never been easier, safer, or so affordable since the recent introduction of the free BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express. This is a win-win productivity story your company should seriously consider.
11 Marketing Tips for the New Twitter for BlackBerry
Smartphones App
Start by giving customers relevant information
Businesses of all sizes are asking how to use the new Twitter for BlackBerry Smartphones app to market their products. It is an important question because Twitter has suddenly become an essential marketing tool for many successful businesses.
The most important tip is to be relevant to customers' wants and needs. Customers, that is, respond to information that benefits them. They want facts, not fluff. And they want honest opinions. Follow that advice,
and you will go a long way.
New! The LinkedIn for BlackBerry App Is Here
The popular professional networking site is a natural for BlackBerry smartphones
The highly anticipated LinkedIn® for BlackBerry app is now available in BlackBerry App World™. Send messages right from your Messages folder, check network updates, view profiles, and add new contacts—all of the popular features are included. Bring your professional network with you on your BlackBerry smartphone!
Two Organizations Reveal Ways They Empower Customers and
Field Teams
Get ideas for your organization
Ordering parts, monitoring vital signs, submitting timesheets—these are a few of the ways organizations are benefitting from the mobility of the BlackBerry® solution. Watch these videos to see how your organization can also benefit:
- Ricoh Americas Corporation enables field technicians to do everything from dispatching service calls to ordering parts from an application on the technicians' BlackBerry smartphones
Get the solution now » - We Care Home Health Services deploys two applications: the MedShare™ for BlackBerry smartphones application to accurately submit electronic timesheets, saving the time of care statt, and the Health on the Go application allows clients to regularly monitor and transmit their vital signs information to nursing staff for review
See how they did it »
Some WES 2010 Executive Passes Are Still Available
Join other business leaders in Orlando April 27–29
You can still register for the 1.5-day Executive Pass at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) April 27–29 in sunny Orlando, Florida. The new pass is perfect for business leaders interested in mobility solutions.
Research In Motion has carefully selected business-oriented sessions to maximize the benefis for Executive Pass holderst. Examples include:
- WB04 – Doing the Math: The ROI of Smartphone Deployments
- WB05 – Mobilizing Enterprise Applications: Keys to Success
- WB01 – Industry Analyst Panel: The Year Ahead for Mobility
Limited Executive Passes are available, so register now to ensure your spot.
Have You Developed BlackBerry Apps to Serve Your Customers?
We want to hear from you
Have you developed a BlackBerry app to help your customers? UPS, for example, recently launched its UPS Mobile™ app for BlackBerry smartphones to help its customers ship packages. We will be covering this hot topic and want to hear from you.
If you have examples of your own, or just have questions you would like answered, send us an email with “Build Customer Apps” in the subject line to editor@blackberry.com.
Tips & Tricks: Three Surefire Ways to Make Phone Dialing Easier
Use speed dial for contacts and for auto dialing your voice mail, and learn how to call contacts work extensions
Do you call contacts using speed dial? What about speed dialing your voice mail? Have you formatted contacts to dial work extensions? If you answered “no” to any of these questions this article is for you. These three simple tips will make phone calls many, many times easier.
