Updated Photo of Apple Store Coming To Greenville, SC

February 7th, 2010
So I was out at the mall today with my son looking for Bionicles which of course he told me we had to go to Toy’s R Us to find them and he was right. But I took a moment to snap an update to some our recent photos of the upcoming apple store near Helzberg Diamonds on the lower floor underneath the food court at Simon’s Haywood Mall. If you have any updates you would like to keep us updated on, please post them here.

New Photo of Apple Store Coming To Greenville, SC

We took a little trip over to Haywood Mall to check on the progress of the new Apple store. Children’s place has already moved to the old Hallmark location and it appears as though they are ready to start working on the new apple store as you can see from the photo above. Okay, they haven’t added the logos to the glass yet…but we couldn’t resist doing a little photoshop work to get things kicked off.

Apple Store coming to Greenville

Here’s the “Third Time’s a Charm” edition with the latest on Apple bringing a retail store to Greenville, and it looks like this is the most legitimate news yet. According to GSA Business, Apple is going to be moving into the current Children’s Place store at the Haywood Mall. Children’s Place will be going upstairs into the recently vacant Eddie Bauer location. The store is set to open sometime this summer.

To further prove that they’re for real this time, here is the application on Monster.com for Apple Store employees.

Happy day!

Dine Out For Mom-Thursday, October 22, 2009

As most of you know, we are proud supporters of Let There Be Mom, and we are so excited to show you their 30 Sec PSA announcement that we produced recently  (Click here) . It should begin airing on WYFF4 and the Charter channel until the big day, so keep an eye out for it.

Be sure to Dine Out for Mom to benefit Let There be Mom. 30 Restaurants, 81 locations, Thursday October 22. It’s an all day all meal event. Dine In, Carry out, catering or purchase a gift card. Meet with friends, host a business lunch, take the family out for ice cream, and help Let There Be Mom preserve a legacy by visiting a dine out for mom restaurant partner. You can also check locations and hours at www.lettherebemom.org.

Apple Store coming to Greenville? (part II)

Here’s a quick follow-up on a post we made a while back about an Apple store being built in Greenville. It sounds like the plans for the store at Magnolia Park have been scrapped, since it doesn’t look like that complex is going to be completed (or started?) any time soon.

We’re in luck though – it appears that Apple has signed a lease to put a store in the Haywood Mall in the space where Glamour Shots used to be. Apparently, Apple’s wanted to get into the mall to begin with, but there were no vacancies. We’ll trade a Glamour Shots for an Apple store any day. To make the deal even sweeter (well, for us anyway) is that the Drum office is less than a mile away from the mall.

Check out the information here about current, planned and rumored Apple store locations.

Syncing your iPhone/iPod Touch to iCal via Google Calendars

Here at Drum, we keep track of all of our meetings and time sheets through iCal and Google Calendars. Since most of us have iPhones or iPod touches, we wanted to sync our hand-held devices with these calendars as well. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to set up your calendars and then sync them to iCal and your iPhone/iPod Touch using Google Calendars.

A few things to know before you start:

• You have to be running software version 3.0 on your iPhone/iPod Touch
• You will need a Gmail account, click here to get one
• You can only set one Google Calendar (the default one) per email address to sync. This may change in the future, but it’s only one for now.

First off, you’ll need to create a calendar in Google Calendars. Click here to head over to Google Calendars and go ahead and login,

1. Once you’re in the calendar view, click on “Settings” in the top right of the page
2. Navigate to the Calendars tab in the yellow box
3. Hit the brown “Create a New Calendar” button

Open up the Settings on your iPhone/iPod Touch and navigate to the Mail, Contacts and Calendars settings. Tap on “Add Account” and then tap on “Other.” From there, tap on “Add CalDAV Account” under the Calendars heading. Enter the information as follows:

• Server: google.com
• Username and Password from your Google account
• Description: what you want to call the calendar

Click “Next” and it will verify your account information. Your hand-held should now be synced to Google. Now we have to link up Google to your iCal. You can set this up manually, but there’s this great little application called Calaboration that does the dirty work for you.

Make sure iCal is closed, then download Calaboration and launch it. A window will come up asking for a login – enter the email address and password for your Google account. From here, you’ll be presented with a list of which calendars to add to iCal. Select the calendar you’d like to add, click “Add to iCal” and then you should be all set, with any updates to iCal being reflected to your iPhone/iPod Touch and vice versa.

GreenvilleRec site launch

We are excited to announce the launch of the new GreenvilleRec.com website this morning. Some of the features of the new site include a park locator, a Twitter feed displaying field closings and conditions, targeted zones for advertising, multiple templates that compliment the look of several parks and an overall dynamic structure. At the time of the launch, the website weighs in at right around 260 pages. With a content-managed back end, we expect that number to continue to grow.

With the improvements in usability, design and the dynamic nature of the site, we expect that GreenvilleRec.com will see 1 million visits this year.

Our First :30 Second Television Spot

“Why Donate Blood?,” created for The Blood Connection, is set to air on channel WYFF4 during the premiere of “Chronicle: Paul’s Gift” on Thursday, May 28 at 8pm.

“Paul’s Gift” documents the story of a local man whose sudden death saves three lives through organ donation. Coincidentally, one blood donation can save up to three lives as well. Click here to learn more about “Paul’s Gift” and to watch a preview for the show.

Want to check out “Why Donate Blood?” even earlier? Click here for an exclusive first look.

We Have A Winner!

Drum Creative Contest Winner from Drum Creative on Vimeo.

Let There Be Mom Video

Let There Be Mom is a non-profit organization that was founded in Greenville, SC in January of 2007. The organization was created to help Moms when they, or their child’s father, become diagnosed with a life threatening illness by helping to preserve the legacy of the ailing parent. The goal of Let There Be Mom is to make each person’s legacy as unique as the life they lead.

To date, Let There Be Mom has served 13 families, which have 29 children between them. All of the families they work with have children 18 years old and younger.

We have seen firsthand how they have impacted some of these families and we have considered it a privilege to create this video to help tell their story. We hope you will join us in supporting Let There Be Mom and be a blessing to others as they go through the valley.