Short clip: 1-800 Flowers blooms with blogs, social networks

October 3, 2007, 10:57am PDT | Length: 00:01:48
Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers, discusses innovative technologies the company is working on to deliver flowers more efficiently to its customers including 1-click, wireless shopping and Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and social networking.

Transcript

Short clip: 1-800 Flowers blooms with blogs, social networks

>> Dan: What are some of the technologies you're investing in for the future?

>> Well, we're investing heavily in Web 2.0 technologies for sure. We're using Ajax to enhance our customer experience. We're using web technologies. This past mother's day we had a mobile site up and operational, which was very successful for the first time.

>> Dan: So, in other words, customers, from their mobile devices, could order flowers very easily with a nice user experience?

>> With a nice user experience, that's exactly right Dan, and beyond that, we're enhancing that for one click capabilities and way beyond as our customers embrace that technology. So we're right there with that technology at this point.

>> Dan: So when we talk about one click technology is it almost like a self-service similar to what you do at Amazon in terms of you see something you want to buy, its one click, and it's done?

>> Exactly right. All the customer information is already stored and it's readily available so it makes the experience very, very easy and very, very satisfying even though it's actually on a mobile device. So that's exciting to us.

>> Dan: And you mentioned Web 2.0 technologies, what are some of the other areas that you're exploring? When we talk about Web 2.0, I think we mean Wiki's and blogs and predictive markets. Are there some other areas or social networking that you're looking in to?

>> Well, absolute, yes. Hover over us is an example, is a big thing for us. Making the user experience very, very elegant and pleasant for our customers. We're always looking at that. That's absolutely paramount in our minds. But we do use blogs. We're looking at blogs extensively. We believe social networking, obviously, is a revolution that's happening. We're embracing that.

==== Transcribed by Automatic Sync Technologies ====

Short clip: 1-800 Flowers: Managing the holiday peaks

Short clip: 1-800 Flowers: Managing the holiday peaks

Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800-Flowers speaks about managing flower delivery operations during the...

Short clip: 1-800 Flowers on optimizing flower delivery on the web

Short clip: 1-800 Flowers on optimizing flower delivery on the web

Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers, talks about the challenges with delivering perishable goods...

1-800 Flowers CIO: Steve Bozzo

1-800 Flowers CIO: Steve Bozzo

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks about the e-tailer's...

Short clip: American Airlines social media experiment

Short clip: American Airlines social media experiment

Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the company is embracing Twitter and...

Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the company’s...

Short clip: Verizon invests in growth over cost-cutting

Short clip: Verizon invests in growth over cost-cutting

Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, describes how the company is responding to the current...

Short clip: Verizon CIO: Quick failures, generate quick learning

Short clip: Verizon CIO: Quick failures, generate quick learning

Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, talks about how focusing on the growth of the company...

Short clip: Sony uses social networking to listen to customers

Short clip: Sony uses social networking to listen to customers

Drew Martin, CIO of Sony Electronics, describes how the company is targeting social networking...

Talkback - Tell Us What You Think

Formatting +
BB Codes - Note: HTML is not supported in forums
  • [b] Bold [/b]
  • [i] Italic [/i]
  • [u] Underline [/u]
  • [s] Strikethrough [/s]
  • [q] "Quote" [/q]
  • [ol][*] 1. Ordered List [/ol]
  • [ul][*] · Unordered List [/ul]
  • [pre] Preformat [/pre]
  • [quote] "Blockquote" [/quote]

The best of ZDNet, delivered

ZDNet Newsletters

Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox

White Papers, Webcasts, & Resources

Facebook Activity