meet > keep in touch
based on a true story
In the old world, when people went to a conference they brought a pack of business cards. Everyone did. Why? It’s obvious right, they wanted to stay in touch after the event was over.
Prior to the event everyone had to have those business cards printed – in worst case, hideous designs just to get it done, cause what happens if you met somebody you wanted to keep in touch with but you had no card? No business!
During the conference, the same people had to carry two bunches of business cards. In one pocket their own cards, and in another pocket the received ones. Some people even divided the received ones in two pockets. Left pocket for cards to save, right pocket to throw. Or the other way around.
After the conference they all went back to their offices, with those newly conquered business cards. Some of them sat down to order them, others just built stacks – depending on personality. In recent years some people even bothered to digitalize those business cards to have available in their Outlook, conveniently.
Time changes, they say.
In an ambadoo world, you just go to your conference, unconference or whatever you’d like, bring your mobile, with ambadoo installed. You start talking to someone interesting and decide that you’d want to keep in touch.
On the fly, over-the-air you share your ambadoo profiles with each other, and you’re connected, with all relevant contact details and all it took was a click.
You’d expect more steps? Sorry to disappoint you.
This is the first of a few user stories we’re working on at the moment, and will be demoed tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned.
mobile heights
business center
in an attempt to stimulate growth within the ICT sector in the southern region of Sweden, a project called Mobile Heights Business Center is being executed. We’ve been selected as one of the teams, that will get the chance to participate in this constellation, between the industry, investors and entrepreneurs, to create win-win synergies in the region. On tuesday the teams got the chance to pitch their ideas to the investors and to the collaborating corporation. The event was very successful and we’ve got new meetings planned with some very interesting possible co-operators.
On the 29th of May it will be official: who’s in the project, what’s the deal, and what will happen next. One of the team, our friends at Saplo was broadcasted on the Local News Sydnytt on tuesday night, when they revealed the event.
and here’s an extract from Mobile Heights Business Center website about the project:
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New ideas for cooperation between private and public actors will generate growth in Mobile Heights Business Center
Mobile Heights in collaboration with Teknopol and other organisations constructs the groundwork for the pilot project Mobile Heights Business Center.
The platform consists of various private and public actors in a unique collaboration. The actors contribute with their specific resources at different stages of the business development process e.g. short way to financing, finding the right skills for the team and offering access to the knowledge bank that industry researchers possess.
An own business center is fully in accordance with Mobile Heights objectives: To establish southern Sweden as a world-leading region in research, innovation and entrepreneurship in mobile communications, leveraging the entire value chain of mobile devices – hardware, software and services.
Lars Tilly, Head of Research, Ericsson in Lund and Chairman of Mobile Heights:
- One of the success factors for Mobile Heights is to initialize new knowledge-based companies in wireless communications through different ways of lowering the bar for innovation and realization of research results.
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we’ll keep you posted.