At long last the silence is broken. Our sincerest apologies for being missing in action these past few weeks. There has, nonetheless, been much ado about – everything.
Not least of which, our Sales team is expanding!
Stephane and Dome at ADMS
About two weeks ago, Poken’s CEO Stephane and myself, from the Marketing Team, flew to the United Arab Emirates to support the distribution of pokens at the prestigious Abu Dhabi Media Summit (ADMS). The exclusive 3-day summit was an invitation-only event and welcomed about 400 chairs, CEOs and major business unit heads from the world’s top-tier media players as well as their new-market counterparts. The event organizer publicisLIVE had chosen Poken as their networking partner and provided all participants with an ADMS customized poken on their badge.
Besides the incredibly exotic venue at the Yas Hotel, Stephane and I were excited about the incredible line-up of speakers at the event: Eric Schmidt of Google, Rupert Murdoch of the News Corporation, Maurice Lévy of the Publicis Group and Josh Silverman of Skype, just to name very few. The focus of the event was the challenges and opportunities rising from an increasingly globalized media landscape as well as the advent of new technologies and their effect on traditional media.
Lift Social Business Card
Big news folks! Today we are introducing our first service offering, called pokenEVENT!
A pokenEVENT is a customizable event package that includes a mix of physical devices (pokens), a branded social business card, a branded networking platform (the Poken Member Hub), full post-event analytics, and more.
We built pokenEVENT specifically for event organizers, and the equation is simple: Poken improves networking at the events and helps them stand out in a crowded event space. Improved networking = greater customer satisfaction. The result: Increased repeat attendance, stronger word of mouth, and an additional compelling sponsorship opportunity!
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How do you wear your poken ?
To all you Poken fashionistas, we’d like to invite you to a global Poken fashion contest. Thanks to a Poken reseller and the fashion blog Con dos Bolsas en Cada Mano there’s been a competition of the fashionistas in Spain. We love it and now Poken S.A. would like to take it global.
From now until Monday, March 8th, 2010 you can submit a picture of yourself in a complete outfit of fabulous style and taste paired with your most fashionable and innovative accessory, your poken. Send your pictures via Twitter (@poken) or post to our wall on our Facebook page.
We will announce the top 3 winners on Tuesday, March 9th. Each winner will get their choice of any one of our limited edition pokenSPARKs in the East London Collection and a choice of any one of the limited edition pokenPULSEs in the UrbanPop by GabyGaby Collection.
Can’t wait to see what you got!
Cheers,
The Pokenaut Lovers of Style
‘Friday Night Lights’ in 2010 Switzerland have nothing to do with American high school football and everything to do with blue waters, palm trees, and, you guessed it, pokens.
On January 29th, “Urban Oasis” at City Beach in Basel, Switzerland featured pokens in an effort to build their brand community while adding interactive entertainment. Amidst the soft lighting, eclectic music, and paradise decor people discovered the full poken experience, from the green glow of pokening, to the dynamic website, poken.com, and of course the many networking opportunities that followed.
This pokenEVENT was especially pivotal for the Poken team because glowing pyramids were in the mix. ”Huh?” you ask, “What do pyramids have to do with widgets, APIs, and, wait for it… Shindig? ”Everything” is your answer.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We at Poken are starting the year in high spirits, and hope to share with you some of our energy and enthusiasm. First, of course, I would like to wish you all health, happiness, and much success for 2010!
As an introduction, let me say that Poken’s current product offering, including the ever popular pokenSPARKTM , the new pokenPULSETM, and our redesigned member site pokenHUBTM are only the tip of the iceberg, as relates to what we’ve been working on to continue offering the most innovative, fun, and useful technologies for real world social networking.
Poken recently launched its new pokenEVENTTM and pokenAFFINITYTM products, offering a small preview of the nature of our business beyond social networking / fashion accessories. An increasing number of corporate partners, including big names such as KPMG, IBM, BMW and Mobistar are turning to Poken to answer a need that marketers have long sought to fulfill: Bridging the gap between your online and offline worlds.
Poken is your 'social business card.' It's an easy way to share your contact details and online social networks in the real world. More...
