See this happy couple? They’re smiling since they’re in love, they’re during a waterpark, as good as they haven’t engaged E. coli yet. They could additionally be chuckling with a believe which all 700 of their closest Facebook friends will shortly see them canoodling in an synthetic lagoon, interjection to a bizarre latest photo-sharing module from Great Wolf Resorts. From right away on, visitors to Great Wolf’s Grand Mound board will be means to automatically post their eighth month pics upon Facebook, regulating usually an RFID-equipped wristband. All they have to do is register their accounts during check-in, slap upon their bands as good as conduct over to any of 5 kiosks stationed around a resort, where they can poise for cinema which will be now uploaded to their walls (along with captions). Immediately de-tagging yourself, however, stays a singly primer task. Wade past a mangle for a full PR. Show full PR textGreat Wolf Lodge Debuts Social Media First For Waterpark Industry
Great Wolf Connect allows approach Facebook print pity by RFID technology
GRAND MOUND, Wash., Jun 28, 2011 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
Great Wolf Resorts® (NASDAQ: WOLF), North America’s largest family of indoor waterpark resorts, is debuting a latest record that’s a amicable media initial for a industry. Great Wolf Connect, rising initial during Great Wolf Lodge® – Grand Mound, allows guest to couple a radio-frequency marker (RFID) record in their waterpark wristbands with their Facebook accounts to automatically share photos from photo-friendly Paw Posts around a resort.
This latest operate of RFID record will concede guest to have photos taken, which have been afterwards automatically posted to their Facebook page around their visit. Capturing this present “wish you were here” impulse was a plea in a past with guest not bringing a required record in to a waterpark.
“Family vacations have been what memories have been done of, with photos backing a fronts of refrigerators as good as pages of albums for years,” pronounced Steve Shattuck, Corporate Director of Communications during Great Wolf Resorts. “Today, a guest operate Facebook as both a practical post label as good as a print album. With record you already had in place, you were means to have pity a single step easier.”
Built by Fish Technologies, Great Wolf Connect uses a RFID record imbedded in a waterpark’s wristbands, which additionally offer as guests’ room keys as good as in-house assign accounts. After check-in, guest can register their wristband during a Great Wolf Connect kiosks as good as couple it without delay to their Facebook account. Then, during 5 Paw Posts located around a resort, guest simply indicate their wristband as good as grin for a digital camera during any spot. That print – or a ubiquitous print of any captivate – as good as a heading have been afterwards automatically posted upon a guests’ Facebook wall.
“Guests have been asking us for print pity functionality for utterly a little time. Great Wolf Connect allows us to enhance a record infrastructure in a approach which enhances their stay,” pronounced Great Wolf Chief Information Officer Rajiv Castellino. “In Grand Mound, we’ve already seen a guest welcome this latest experience. And as guest see others capturing memories during a Paw Posts, they’re perplexing it out for themselves, too.”
The Paw Post locations embody a many renouned print opportunities around a resort, together with a resort’s signature Tipping Bucket as good as a full perspective of a of a waterpark from an towering patio inside a waterpark, a Great Clock Tower in a lobby, a statue of Sprinkles a Bear outward Bear Paw Sweets & Eats(TM), as good as Pixi’s Perch, partial of a MagiQuest® game.
