I was recently given my first Poken, a trendy little vampire. Haven’t heard of Poken? The über-cute business card, modernized to meet current social networking needs. My favorite new tool swaps contact information by simply touching the four-fingered sensor with another Poken. The tiny device stores a user’s individual arrangement of personal and/or business information plus links out to your choice of 30+ social networking sites. During this year’s Social Media Week you bounced from speaker to party racking up the business cards and downing the Amstel Light, but just think how much more fun it could be “high fouring” all these new people.
Don’t mix business with pleasure? Create multiple profiles corresponding with your diverse social needs.
Back from a big day of networking events or client meetings, plug Poken’s USB into your home computer to review, remember and catalog new contacts. Edit your Poken profile and design, or with one-click link you out to all of your social networks – you can even tweet right from your Poken page.
In the future, but hopefully not too far off, I would love to see Augmented Reality integrated with Poken via an application similar to TAT Augmented ID. Let’s brainstorm for a moment future uses for mobilizing your social life…what would happen if you could plug Poken into your phone? The possibilities are endless! Imagine walking through the events of Social Media Week, lift up and look through the lens of your camera phone to become highly connected and informed on your surroundings. Get background information on speakers; update your status or post your latest blog entry inviting the people around you to detect whether or not you are a relevant new contact, prep with the highest level of convenience for conference and workshops by reviewing speakers’ public information; and forgetting so-and-so’s first name will become a way of the past.
Poken strikes my interest much more than similar options (such as the facebook badge/widget, which you can embed anywhere), because it bridges the age-old and still common practice of trading business cards with the current way of finding someone on facebook, LinkedIn, etc. after meeting in person or virtually. Those old and new types of friending are similar, both leaving one person responsible for taking the relationship to the next level. Poken enables a new friending style – creating an equal playing field – people trading information simultaneously.
Poken saves us from pockets full of business cards. I mean we still live in a world, where one of those pieces of paper falls on the floor meaning the loss of your next major lead.
So come on, get a Poken, and let’s high four!
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Friending for the Future – [link to post] @momo_r #poken
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hey bigfuel i received a direct sms to my twitter (@punkgodangell) but i cant reply to you if ur not following me! i came across your stuff through a friend they say you got the catch. now my question is how can i get a Poken?