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Yapper Monday: Church Gone Mobile

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  • Yapp features a church community using an app as part of its Yapper Monday series.
  • The story shows how mobile communication can support faith-based groups with events and updates in one place.
  • Churches and community organizations looking for practical app inspiration will benefit most from this example.

Church isn’t just for Sundays any more. We found a bunch of users creating apps for their parishes, youth groups, mission trips and more. Their Yapps are helping connect the Sunday community all through the week with tons of different events and gatherings.

Inspired? Take your youth group, parish, choir — anything! — mobile with your own super cool Yapp: http://yapp.us

Yapp is great tool for bringing large communities together. The Body of Christ Church has over 60 users that are connecting and sharing through Yapp.

The Berkeley Baptist Church has an avid youth group who do community service, travel and explore together. Youth members use Yapp to keep in touch with newsfeed updates and access Bible verses and prayer requests.

Trevecca Nazareth University is using Yapp to help keep organized during their Mission Nashville trip with a full schedule and contact list.

The Mt. Zion AME Church of New York City uses Yapp to keep their congregation informed about their choir. Mt Zion AME is able to share schedules for performances and rehearsals, lyrics and photos making it easy for the whole community to rejoice!

Yapper Mondays: Brimming with Cool Ideas

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  • Yapp shares a Yapper Mondays feature centered on creative app ideas from users.
  • The post spotlights imaginative ways people apply apps to communication and events.
  • Readers looking for broad app inspiration and community stories will benefit most from this feature.

All of our Yapps are made with creativity and inspiration in mind. Some of our users have excitingly unique businesses, hobbies or organizations to pile on top of an awesome app. Take a look at these users, who’s apps show off their cool ideas.

Have a cool idea of your own? Let us know! http://bit.ly/yappback

This Yapp, created by Sunlight Yoga, features poses and information about chair yoga — a portable yoga workout for sitters from offices to airplanes.

More refined than your old college bro crashing on your couch, the DCCS Couch Crash is one of a variety of events from Couchsurfing users. The local groups invite people from all over to crash out their couches and enjoy their great cities.

SquishTalks specializes in the art of conversation with workshops and consultations about becoming a comfortable conversationalist. The group also made an app for it’s summit specializing in improving attendees in depth conversations.

Product Update: Share from your dashboard

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  • Yapp introduces a dashboard sharing feature that makes distributing apps easier from the creator side.
  • Faster sharing workflows help increase app visibility and simplify launch preparation.
  • App creators focused on efficiency and adoption will benefit most from this update.

A few days ago, we announced a great new feature added to the dashboard: you can now send a tweet or a Facebook post directly from our site after publishing.

Along with email, Yapp creators can now quickly and easily send their Yapp out to Twitter and Facebook followers. Once you publish your app, you’ll see the buttons beneath the preview on your My Yapps page.

Go check it out!

Festival Fixtures

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  • Yapp highlights festival-related ideas or examples that show how mobile tools fit live event experiences.
  • The post adds inspiration around organizing and enhancing festival communication with apps.
  • Festival planners and event teams looking for mobile ideas will benefit most from this feature.

Yapp make a great tool for eclectic events, showcasing different people and different activities all in one convenient place. We’ve had all sorts of festivals create one-time apps, but these three have made us a part of their yearly routine.

The Boulder Jewish Festival was one of Yapp’s first conference users back in spring of 2012. The organization revamped their app for this year’s festival, featuring new music acts and plenty of community artists.

The Dark Sky Festival is a late-winter star gazing extravaganza. The organizers created an app for the 10th annual festival last December, and are using the Yapp again for winter 2014.

The Midnight Light Tango Festival’s first app was for an event just last week, but they’ve already got their new app available for next year’s tango fest.

Yapper Mondays: Music to our Ears

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  • Yapp shares a music-themed Yapper Mondays story that highlights creative app use in live or community settings.
  • The post shows how custom apps can support communication and engagement around shared interests.
  • Readers seeking app inspiration tied to music and events will benefit most from this feature.

What better way to keep your most loyal fans feeling like they’re a part of the inner circle than to create an app just for them? We’ve seen great Yapps for tons of different groups big and small, and these two UK bands (and one nearby music fest!) are joining the ranks.

The Vaccines are an English indie rock band using their Yapp to showcase band pictures, Twitter updates, and touring schedules.

Another band from across the pond, Stakeout is using Yapp for their upcoming Young and Fearless tour, starting at the end of July. They’re also using Twitter updates, but have band info and a gallery of photos for fans.

FAB Fridays in Brooklyn take place weekly, but last week’s 5 hour music festival sponsored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Fulton Business Alliance celebrated the kick off of summer. The concert was a part of Make Music New York, a city-wide festival happening in all the city’s boroughs.

Yapper Monday: Happy Small Business Week!

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  • Yapp celebrates Small Business Week with a community-focused Yapper Monday feature.
  • The post spotlights how apps can support small business communication and visibility.
  • Small business owners looking for simple digital communication ideas will benefit most from this story.

This week is Small Business Week, and what better way to highlight innovative small businesses than to shout out some of their apps? We’ve featured some small biz Yappers before, but we’ve seen many new small business apps pop up and want to give them a chance to shine.

Have a small business you’d like featured? Send it our way! http://bit.ly/yappback

The Z Recording Studio in Peekskill, NY, advertises their space for recording, parties, and art openings, among tons of other events. On the app, you can check out the space and its many visitors.

Scavenger Hunt Atlanta uses Yapp for all of its scavenger hunts. The biz arranges and hosts various types of hunts, both private and public, and each one gets its own Yapp to broadcast items found.

We’ve featured Young’s Wine previously on our blog, but the spirits seller has also created apps for stores in Washington State and Oregon. Each one features an inventory of the store and features specials from time to time.

Yapper Mondays: Summer Camps Embrace Tech

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  • Yapp features summer camps using technology to improve communication and organization.
  • The post shows how apps can help manage schedules, updates, and community information for camp experiences.
  • Camp organizers and youth program teams will benefit most from this example.

Summer camps usually bring to mind canoes, climbing walls and bugle wake up calls. These Yappers have taken correspondence to a new level with free apps for all types of education-centric camps.

The Confident Kids Camp is a therapy camp program for children with social disabilities preparing for school with workshops for parents. They’re using their schedule to plan daily field trips and a news feed for updates as the camp dates grow closer.

Brookwood School’s STEM camp is using Yapp in a bunch of awesome ways. Not only do they have their main app, which includes an overall schedule and information for parents, but the campers are making apps, too!

The Sommerkurs 2013 app from Norway has a detailed schedule of it’s camp for different levels of school band members around the country. Each night, the campers perform concerts, and the app integrates Twitter, photos and Facebook to keep parents in the loop.

Yapper Mondays: All on Sale

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  • Yapp shares a Yapper Mondays feature tied to sales, shopping, or themed promotions in a light format.
  • The post highlights creative app uses and timely ideas from the Yapp community.
  • Readers looking for playful, seasonal app inspiration will benefit most from this feature.

Few things boost a blah day like an email from your favorite shop offering you a good sale. But waking up in the morning to a inbox filled with product emails from the stores can have the opposite effect. Some of our Yappers changed their pace and started offering discounts and deals through apps to reward their customers who downloaded.

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A few weeks back, we highlighted author Erin Nicholas, whose Yapp offers goodies big and small for it’s users. We’re giving her another shout out here for having such a cool app, full of freebies and discounts for members of her Yapp community.

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Raw Caviar Clothing Co. offers regular deals and discounts for app users through it Twitter account and the live news feed inside the app. The deals range from alerts that products are on limited time sale to codes for 50% off, all given through the app.

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KRSGallery.com integrates its Twitter feed to offer deals and updates as well. Codes are tweeted out, as are new design features, and then are synced to the app.

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Modernica, a modern furniture store in San Francisco, used Yapp for their recent factory sale. They included pictures of items being sold, encouraging notes to get users to come and buy, and offered a $25 gift card to the first 100 people in line.

Yapper Monday: Readying for Summer

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  • Yapp shares a summer-themed Yapper Monday story centered on seasonal planning and app use.
  • The post highlights how apps can support communication and organization around changing schedules and events.
  • Readers looking for seasonal app inspiration will benefit most from this feature.

The sun is shining, mercury rising, and school is trickling out, meaning summer is hiding around the corner. These Yappers are prepared, preempting the summer brain drain with simple and useful apps for family, friends and students.

Join the party and get a head start on your summer plans!

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The Ranieri Family is getting ready for their Christmas in July with this “Save the Date” -like app. As the summer progresses, the family can communicate with the app’s News Feed, add pictures with the new Crowd Pics page, and see the schedule of events as it’s put together.

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A teacher at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes’ School in D.C. put this cool app together to make sure the third grader’s keep up with their summer reading. It features a list of great fiction and nonfiction books to keep their young brains pumping through the summer.

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The Olathe College Church in Kansas is keeping their community in the loop about all the summer goings-on. A schedule of events and service opportunities accompany trip information, pictures and a feed for sharing experiences. 

WSJ: Startup Moms

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  • Yapp highlights outside coverage tied to startup founders and parenthood as part of its brand story.
  • The post adds a human dimension to Yapp’s leadership narrative through media recognition.
  • Readers interested in founder journeys and startup culture will benefit most from this article.

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Watch CEO & Co-Founder Maria Seidman chatting with Angie Hicks of Angie’s List, Robin Chase of Zipcar and the Wall Street Journal about motherhood in the middle of the startup atmosphere: http://on.wsj.com/YATiTq