Vybee.com

Got a chance to make a rogue presentation of our latest project GoHaps.com at this year’s Triangle Startup Weekend. With auditorium at capacity in Centennial Campus, NCSU, it was an awesome way to introduce what we’re now working on.

A Quick Logo for GoHaps at Triangle Startup Weekend

Introducing GoHaps.com at Triangle Startup Weekend

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Our new launch page is also up to get the momentum going…

http://GoHaps.com

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Stay tuned for the latest news and evolutions.

- Jeff & Team Vybee -

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Exciting changes are coming up at Vybee.com as we develop
and prepare to launch our new web and mobile app for local haps.

We’ll post more details up here very soon so stay tuned.

Meanwhile here’s a very rough video of Jeff explaining the latest evolution
of Vybee.com at Startup Stampede in Durham, NC…

Vybee.com – Upcoming Evolution from Vybee on Vimeo.

It was so much better to see Jeff in action live.

We should have more details and clearer videos up here soon.

- Jenni -

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We’re on the final stretch of the Startup Stampede incubator program in Durham, NC. And oh, what a great experience it has been.

We’re busily preparing for our presentation at the Stampede graduation ceremony Wednesday November 16th.

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So we’re polishing up Vybee.com, polishing up our pitch… and our shoes.

And who knows maybe even revealing a sneak peak of our mobile app coming out soon.

Headed up by the Durham Chamber of Commerce, and Downtown Durham Inc, the Stampede has been an excellent experience for us to meet local talent and start-up success stories such as Chris Heivly of Mapquest and Triangle Tech Talk, Aaron Houghton of iContact and Eden, Taylor and Joel from Shoeboxed, and so many more.

Adam Klein from the Durham Chamber and Matthew Coppedge from Downtown Durham Inc. have been such great ringleaders in guiding us away from the desk and face to face with others that can help us grow our business.

We grew to love Durham even more in the short time we’ve been here and the possibility of setting up shop in Durham sounds very lucrative mainly because we felt an encouragement that’s hard to find.

We look forward to continuing with the great connections we’ve made as we’re really just getting started to take this project to the next level.

Our final presentation for Startup Stampede will be Wednesday November 16th at 5:00pm in Rigsbee Hall, downtown Durham, NC.

If you’d like to attend this private function and hear some of the latest innovations coming out of the area, let me know and I’ll do my best to work out an invite.

- Jeff -

Collaborate@Vybee.com

www.Vybee.com

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Triangle Entrepreneur Week is coming up Nov. 14th – 18th with an impressive line up of events between Raleigh and Durham. This should be a must attend week of events for local entrepreneurs and business owners.

It’s such a good thing that we worked out Free Passes to available events for members of the Vybee.com – Triangle Business Group: http://vybee.com/groups/trianglebusiness/

I’ll be presenting on how we can foster a local community for entrepreneurs based on what we’ve been building at Vybee.com and what I’ve learned through the Durham Startup Stampede program along with Stampede founders Adam Klein from the Durham Chamber of Commerce, Matthew Coppedge from Downtown Durham Inc, Raleigh City Councilor, Mary-Ann Baldwin, and Derrick Minor of Downtown Raleigh Alliance.

Our event will be Wednesday Nov. 16th from 2:oo – 4:00pm
at the Longview Center (118 S. Person St. Raleigh, NC).

There are also various events pertaining to different industries and interests
as well as ample opportunities to pitch ideas to investors.

Find out more about the entire week of events at: http://www.triangleew.org/

It looks like the events are already selling out, so make sure to get signed up and join our Triangle Business Group for free passes to events as they are available. Please help us pass the word to other entrepreneurs and business owners who would like this offer and community. We’re emailing members of our Triangle Business group how to get free passes.

Look forward to seeing you at Triangle Entrepreneur Week, our presentation (Wednesday Nov. 16th), and continuing to bring together our local entrepreneur community in the Vybee.com Triangle Business Group.

Sincerely,

- Jeff -

www.Vybee.com

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Vybee.com is going through an exciting upgrade and will be back up very soon with some much anticipated new features like photo and media sharing and a contest for local reports from Hopscotch, SPARKcon, and more local interests.

Bear with us as we move through this upgrade
happening early morning Sept. 8th 2011.

Stay tuned as we get back live and look forward to
participate in the awesome contest going live later today.

Meanwhile, make sure to keep up with us on Facebook & Twitter…

http://www.Facebook.com/VybeeBuzz

http://www.Twitter.com/VybeeBuzz

- Jeff  & The Vybee Team -

www.Vybee.com

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Mad props to our dedicated and very hard working dev team for bringing this exciting upgrade live for our great local community. Much thanks go out to Don, Faraaz, and Sastry at Instancy.com

Shout outs to great local friends and the Vybee Crew for encouraging our growth and evolution as we continue to create the most useful local network and local business solutions.

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There are some exciting updates coming together at Vybee.com that you guys should know about.

Vybee.com is evolving with how people like to use the platform.

We’re becoming much more like a community bulletin board or people-powered source for local news, events, discussions, and more.

As such, after some serious thought and consideration, we’ve decided to consolidate our group efforts to focus on building up major local interest communities.

The idea is…

Instead of working on numerous groups (which often overlap) with various group admins working on their own accords, we consolidate efforts through major interest groups where everyone can participate with posts and the growth of these major interest communities.

This will ease the confusion of ‘where to post’ and make it easier to participate across interests simply by selecting an appropriate major interest group to make your post.

Now, Admins, Mods, and Members alike can participate collectively with the growth of these major interest communities at Vybee.com – even across interests.

Through these major interest bulletins, we can also aggregate relevant info and syndicate content from local blogs and sources of information.

What this means…

In the coming weeks we will be consolidating smaller groups into major interest groups so we can collectively participate in the growth of these major interest communities.

We are aiming to minimize the number of groups to ease the confusion of ‘where to post info’.

So for example, groups like ‘Lovers of Jazz’ will get consolidated into ‘Music NC’; ‘RTP New Tech’ will get consolidated into ‘Triangle Business’; etc.

Soon, we will have a tagging and search system in place across the site so members can hone in on specific interests and posts.

Here is a list of active major interest communities we can collectively focus on building up at Vybee.com…

Music NC

Fashion NC

Triangle Nightlife (Raleigh Nightlife)

Triangle Dining

Triangle Health & Wellness

Triangle Business

Triangle Non-Profit

NC Literary

Triangle Social Media (The Social Edge)

Triangle Latin Social

Triangle International

Here’s a few we’d like to add in the coming weeks…

Triangle Arts

Triangle News & Opinons

Triangle Sports & Recreation

NC Philosophy & Spirituality

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Groups not mentioned here may be getting consolidated into these major interest communities.

If there is an interest group you feel should be kept around or created and would like to participate with it’s growth on Vybee.com, please contact us and let us know: Groups@Vybee.com

To find out how to syndicate and automate your local blog or info through a Vybee.com interest group, simply contact us and we can get started: Solutions@Vybee.com

We are looking for sponsors for these major interest communities. And will still consider building new sponsored communities. Contact us to find out some savvy things we can do for social engagement with your brand and business: Solutions@Vybee.com

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Get Involved…

Get more involved with the evolution of this project for local engagement by joining the exciting missions in our collaborators group: http://www.vybee.com/groups/vybee-collaborators

We are also looking for partners that would like to work with us on this platform going through some exciting growth and evolutions. We are especially looking for key leaders in development, PR, marketing, and sales. Contact us now and let us know about your interests. Collaborate@Vybee.com

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We hosted our second Vybee Collaborators meeting to kick off the new year
(this past Sunday Jan. 30th, 2011).

We have some very talented people coming through
with a real sense of vision and dedication in building up
and improving this platform for local engagement.

(It ended up being a productive & inspiring 5 hour meeting.)

And I really get the sense that everyone is ready to get the ball rolling
in their own good ways to take Vybee.com to the next level.

Here is a high level outline of some of the things discussed at the meeting,
including the spark of a Vybee.com Fund-raising / Launch Party,
discussed late into the night’s post meeting.

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We went over some basics on how to use the site
and really got under the hood to uncover the power of  Vybee.com.

- Join public groups on Vybee.com
to keep up and participate with your local interests
and directly communicate with your local communities.

- Posting in Vybee.com gets the word out to a dedicated list
+ Facebook & Twitter with one click.

- The easy way to post media through Vybee.com + other useful guides and support
found in our support site: http://Support.Vybee.com

- Become a local interest reporter through our easy to use system
for local micro-blogging.

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Then we really got into how we’re going to grow
and evolve this platform in the coming year.

- How everyone can invite friends and build up our local communities.

- Key feature development in the works this year.

- Becoming a place for local people powered information, and real-time engagement.

- How we can create useful solutions for local businesses.

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If you’d like to get more involved with this project for local engagement,
join us in our group for Vybee collaborators where we are continuing the discussions
and now forming crews to take on some exciting missions…

http://vybee.com/groups/vybee-collaborators/

(Login to visit the group and ‘Request Membership’)

+ find out about our next collaborators meeting coming up soon.

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Look forward to rocking some good things with Vybee.com this year.

- Jeff & the Vybee Crew -

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Kickstarting 2011 with Vybee.com

2010 saw a lot of cool experiments, growth,
and good collaborators coming through Vybee.com.
And we got a lot of great feedback and ideas on how we can create
a truly useful platform for local community engagement.

Check out some of the highlights
we were able to bring together through our communities…
Raleigh NYE, Hopscotch Music Festival, SPARKcon 2010,
Music NC, and Raleigh Nightlife.

We’re kickstarting 2011 diving into a redesign and upgrade of our service,
with a mission to create a platform that’s super easy and fun to use,
bring together quality, people-powered local info, and reconnect people
to strong communities in the Triangle, NC areas and beyond.

On that note, we’re recruiting solid collaborators and contributors
as we grow into an exciting new year.

If you haven’t already, sign up to keep up
and participate with your local interests on Vybee.com.

Reach your local audience with our one click posting
through Vybee.com, Facebook, and Twitter.

Contact us to build your local interest community,
bring together local updates, local friends, as well as
sponsors within your local interests.

At this time we are also looking for development and marketing partners
to join us in creating cutting edge solutions for aggregating quality local content
and fun to use local engagement.

Email us to continue this discussion…

Collaborate@Vybee.com

And look forward to rockin’ some exciting things in the New Year with Vybee.com.

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Vybee.com brought together Live Updates
from the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh.

We created a group to capture all the buzz and community
happening around the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh NC,
(September 9th, 10th, and 11th 2010)…

http://www.vybee.com/groups/hopscotch/

Join this group to Keep up with all the Hopscotch buzz
still coming together from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and more.

Easily post your stories about Hopscotch to the Vybee.com group
as well as send your messages out to Facebook and Twitter all with one click.

As with all of our groups you can get updates
through more manageable email in daily digests, weekly digests,
or just through the web and RSS.

Look forward to participating with the Hopscotch group now
as well as the other local music communities coming together
on Vybee.com.

- The Vybee Team -

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PS: if you’d like to start up a local music or interest group,
make sure to contact us now while we’re offering Free Group Set Ups for a limited time.
And find out how we can help you bring together a proper community.

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Welcome to the All New Vybee.com.

I think you’ll really dig the cool new look
and exciting new ways to use the site.

Please have a good look around the latest
design, navigation, and features…

http://www.Vybee.com

And check out the Quick Start Guide to get a good overview
of the new layout and ways to use the site…

http://www.Vybee.com/Quick-Start

We also have a new Support Community set up
for any questions and answers about using Vybee.com…

http://www.Support.Vybee.com

We’re continuing to add helpful new features.

Keep up and participate with the latest developments
through this ‘Backstage’ Blog as well as the Vybee Community…

http://www.Vybee.com/Groups/Vybee

http://www.Vybee.com/Backstage

Thanks for your patience during any discrepancies through this update.

It is an exciting time as we continue to evolve Vybee.com
as a great place to actively engage with your interests and communities.

Please do not hesitate to contact us about any questions, feedback, and ideas.
That is what helps shape and keep this site growing in such a useful way.

Sincerely,

- Jeff -

www.Vybee.com

www.Support.Vybee.com

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