Comments on: Poken: Business cards made social http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/05/28/poken-business-cards-made-social A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:09:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kaeru http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/05/28/poken-business-cards-made-social/comment-page-1#comment-138492 kaeru Fri, 29 May 2009 17:09:42 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1516#comment-138492 Virtually all bluetooth enabled phones can also can exchange standard address cards. Except most people never even use the feature, or the address books on their expensive phones. Other phones, have OCR camera phones. Parsing business cards? When you take it, you write notes on the back of it with a good old pen, while you're talking to folks. "Call back regarding foo." "Email link to the baz case study, they are interested in" Simple enough. You can work through a pack of cards, while waiting for the plane or something. The bigger problem is contextual (social network), not exchanging cards. When you have a few hundred contacts, sometimes you'll often to jog your memory how/when you got this person's contact a week, or even months later. So some sort of linking is needed. Both Agendus and Datebk6 PIM software allow you to link these addresses, to calls, events, meetings and follow up tasks. So you can pull out history for a particular address card. Aha.. I met this guy at so and so, and I sent something. Different tech for exchanging contacts will come and go, but the folks who say something, then never follow up will always be the same. Virtually all bluetooth enabled phones can also can exchange standard address cards. Except most people never even use the feature, or the address books on their expensive phones. Other phones, have OCR camera phones.

Parsing business cards? When you take it, you write notes on the back of it with a good old pen, while you’re talking to folks.

“Call back regarding foo.”
“Email link to the baz case study, they are interested in”

Simple enough. You can work through a pack of cards, while waiting for the plane or something.

The bigger problem is contextual (social network), not exchanging cards. When you have a few hundred contacts, sometimes you’ll often to jog your memory how/when you got this person’s contact a week, or even months later. So some sort of linking is needed. Both Agendus and Datebk6 PIM software allow you to link these addresses, to calls, events, meetings and follow up tasks. So you can pull out history for a particular address card. Aha.. I met this guy at so and so, and I sent something.

Different tech for exchanging contacts will come and go, but the folks who say something, then never follow up will always be the same.

]]> By: nazroll http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/05/28/poken-business-cards-made-social/comment-page-1#comment-138488 nazroll Fri, 29 May 2009 06:28:47 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1516#comment-138488 can i poken you now? :P can i poken you now?

:P

]]> By: Giuseppe Maxia http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/05/28/poken-business-cards-made-social/comment-page-1#comment-138481 Giuseppe Maxia Thu, 28 May 2009 18:08:42 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1516#comment-138481 Nice. I saw the same device in Milan, where it has become popular, at least with the WordCamp participants. I felt a bit ancient when I gave away my old fashioned paper business cards to people who had a Poken hanging to their badges ... I must get one soon Giuseppe Nice. I saw the same device in Milan, where it has become popular, at least with the WordCamp participants. I felt a bit ancient when I gave away my old fashioned paper business cards to people who had a Poken hanging to their badges …
I must get one soon

Giuseppe

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