I am a big big fan of PodCamp. My friend Dave first introduced me to PodCamp in 2006 for the first PodCamp Pittsburgh. Click here to see my previous post about PodCamp Pittsburgh 2006. I have met alot of great people through podcamp and we have met some great new shop partners through podcamp too.

I was extra excited to see that PodCamp Hawaii has set up a shop with Spreadshirt. One of my best friends has recently moved back to Honolulu and I am planning a return visit there soon. I wonder if I can make it there for PodCamp Hawaii which will be held in Honolulu October 24-25, 2008.

PodCamp Hawaii has a great website set up with lots of good info. If you are looking for more info about PodCamp or want to find a PodCamp in your city check out http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/

Here is a picture of me wearing one of my favorite Spreadshirt t-shirts (green flock rocks!)  in front of the Shrimp Shack in Hawaii.

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Some compete in sports - we are inviting all of our shop partners to compete in the T-Summer Games 08.

Sports and summer are two very t-shirt hungry competitors. Our T-Summer Games 08 is their arena where the apparel world comes together to contend for recognition, respect and the ultimate prizes. There are three areas of competition open to all: Best Grabbed Design, Best Rated Design and Top Selling Design. Enter your summer and sports related designs to go up against the best of them and win big!

The competition runs from August 18th to August 25th.

I am going to start with the prizes because they are as good as gold! -  Ipod touch 8GB, Samsung NV24HD Digital Camera, Wacom intuous3 A4 Tablet, Premium Shop Upgrades and some Zexis T-shirt Books.

Calendar of Events

• August 12, 2008 -August 17, 2008 - Training
  • learn the rules, get to work on summer and sport designs
• August 18, 2008 - August 25, 2008 - Competition
  • This is where it counts! Upload your designs on the Marketplace or in your Confomat with the tag “Sport08”.
• August 26, 2008 - September 5th, 2008 - Judging
  • Selection and publication of the winners by Spreadshirt

The Events - we have 3 categories in the T-Summer Games

• Best Grabbed Design
  • The winner of this category is the design which is grabbed by the most shop partners during the competition and integrated into their shop (either through the marketplace or the Confomat in the user area) as of August 25th.
• Best Rated Design
  • The winner of this category is the design which has the best rating in the marketplace as of August 25th.
• Top Selling Design
  • The winner of this category is the design which was sold the most during the competition (August 18th to August 25th).

Rules - we have those too!  Click here to visit the T-Summer Games 2008 page and get all the details! 

Check out how some of our great shop partners and a some t-shirt blogs are spreading the word about the back to school sale.

• TrollhattanSaab.net has a great post with lots of pictures of their shirts
• Lolcode.com has a post on their blog - Welcome to Spreadshirt!
• ObeySaget.com serves up the back to school info with a humorous reflection on the end of summer and back to school reading.
• BuyTees.net is showing off some of our new products for fall.
• TeeJunkie highlights a shirt from Teach the Controversy and spreads the word about back to school savings
• That Other T-shirt Blog has a post too.

I am loving the new feature on Google Maps that lets your create your own map. I have just created this map about Local Fabric Shops and it has been fun to see what local fabric shops people have been suggesting. So I was thinking this would be a great way to display some of our Spreadshirt shops that are about a place. 

So here it is - the big bad map of Spreadshirt Shops. Of course I started with IheartPGH and I also added a St. Louis Shop - StLouieLouie.com  I need your help to fill up the rest of this map.  Does your Spreadshirt shop sell shirts that promote a place?

• cities
• towns
• establishments - restaurants, parks, museums
• bands

Anything associated with a place - we want to add your shop to the map. Please leave your shop and its location as a comment or send me an email. I will add new shops to the map. I hope we can fill this up with a country of city loving t-shirts.

Ami (he writes for the German Spreadshirt blog) sent me a link to this article from a shop partner with 5 ideas for promoting your Spreadshirt shop. Here is a summary of the 5 ideas, click here to read the entire article.

1. Create a myspace/facebook/linkedin profile for your website and add people you know.
2. Buy one of your own shirts out of the shop.
3. Do something newsworthy while wearing your shirt.
4. Post on T-shirt and clothing line blogs.
5. If your flat out broke, Look for something in your household you’d be willing to part with for free.

Ami, found this via Summize.com - which is an awesome little site that lets you search Twitter. I just did a search for IheartPGH and found all sorts of interesting stuff. I am adding the Summize feed for a search on Spreadshirt to my google reader right now. I think this is also a cool way to see what people are saying about hot topics on twitter. I might just try a search for Obama, Clinton and McCain to see whats happening in the presidential race.

Earlier this year I wrote about some of the many uses for the very versatile cinch sack.  One of those uses is the knitting bag.  I like that you can leave your yarn in the bag and cinch the sack while you knit - which works perfectly to keep your yarn from getting tangled.

The post inspired Gladditudes to add this cute “Chicks with Stix” design to their shop.

There are quite a few knitting bloggers out there who have blogged about their favorite knitting bags.  Which come in all ranges of prices.  I think the cinch sack is just the right size to take a knitting project with you.   The price is right too - the “Chicks with Stix” bag is $16.

I know this has been one feature we have received a ton of requests for - edit and existing product. The wait is over, let the editing begin. Temple announced the arrival of product editing in the forums today, here are the details:

Today we released a new feature in the Shop Admin for your products. You can now edit an existing product or clone a product! Products can be altered for your shop or the Marketplace independently or both at the same time.

Editing a product to for replacement:

If you edit your product in the ?Product Overview? screen, it will be altered in both your shop and within the Marketplace (assuming that your product has been opened in both areas).

Here?s how it works:: Your original product is deleted and replaced by the new product (e.g. with a new color or alternate design). The editable attributes given to the old product (i.e. the commission rate, product name, etc) are automatically transferred to the new product. The product will get moved to the top of the ?Product Overview? list the same as every new product.

Editing a product to create a new version:

Please remember this will change your product in all areas. If you would prefer to change the product in just one of the selling areas (i.e. in your shop OR the marketplace) then simply use the small blue ?My Products? drop-down menu to the top left of the product overview screen and select either your shop or the marketplace.

If you want create new version of a pre-existing product WITHOUT deleting the original, then click on the ‘Clone Product’ option. A copy of the product will be provided which you can then change according to your desires. Great for creating the same design layout on different products, colors, etc!

Let me know if you have any questions!

I posted about this back in August - during PodCamp Pittsburgh (which was attended by a few of us from Spreadshirt) a number of smart, geek loving people created the term Bacn. In short BACN = Email you want - But not right now.

The term BACN took off like hotcake (breakfast pun intended) and started popping up around the web every where.   According to the blog TechBurgh bacn has made the pages of the Feb 08 People magazine.  Congratulations to the bacn crew on this prestigious accomplishment.

Check out the official bacn website here: Bacn2.com and of course bacn t-shirts too -http://bacn.spreadshirt.com

Click here to see a video about BACN - Spreadshirt’s own graphics guru Jesse is the guy on the left.

Black with gold is one of my favorite color combinations.

The blog post about this t-shirt is getting some Diggs. I have noticed that campaign t-shirts have been getting lots of traffic from StumbleUpon. If you have campaign shirts in your shop you might want to submit them to StumbleUpon, Digg or some of the other social sites out there. We have been checking out a new social shopping site - Kaboodle - I am just learning to use it but it has a nice Firefox extension.

This shop partner took an existing graphic and improved it with custom text. You can find thousands of graphics to use in your shop in the marketplace. When you find a design you want to use to create products in your shop - just click the link on the left side that says “add to my shop.”

Fantastic Blognanza (one of my favorite t-shirt blogs) included Spreadshirt Shop Partner, Valle del Sol, in their post “This Week in T-shirts”

Valle del Sol: intricate tribal designs printed on organic t-shirts from one the nicest Spreadshirt shops I’ve ever seen.

Valle del Sol has some great designs…
I am a big fan of this tote

I think this shirt is really clever too