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In the NYC metro area? Catch Jim Marggraff, Livescribe CEO and inventor of the Pulse smartpen speaking on reinventing personal technology! Some details below.
IDEA Conference - Thursday, November 12
9:40 a.m. - Jim Marggraff, Livescribe
Terminal 5, 610 West 56th St, NYC
For more information, please visit www.idea2009.com.
Meet Karen, our marketing manager at Livescribe. When Karen isn't pretending to pose for iPod billboards, she's working at Livescribe or watching The Hills.
What do you do at Livescribe?
I’m the Sr. Marketing Manager and help run marketing activities, campaigns and programs ranging from word-of-mouth to online/social to college marketing. I focus on how we can reach and educate people who have never heard about Livescribe; at the same time, I also spend a lot of time building and engaging our growing community of Pulse smartpen owners and fans.
What’s your favorite part of working for Livescribe?
I love my marketing team. We’re all really different, but we work hard and have fun working together in that dorky tech start-up kind of way.
Also, I love that there’s always something new and challenging with an evolving, growing company like Livescribe.
Where is the strangest place you’ve taken your Pulse smartpen?
Hmmm - is this a trick question?! I take my Pulse everywhere with me, which means I end up giving spontaneous Pulse smartpen demos everywhere I go…like this one time at a retirement dinner party. It was really random!
Who is someone what you’d love to have coffee with?
Michael Jordan. He’s such a legend and I absolutely admired him, along with Lisa Leslie, when I was growing up playing basketball. I had posters of him everywhere in my room.
If you could listen to a pencast on any subject, what would it be?
Social psychology! As a psychology major, I am fascinated by the unexplainable and why people behave or act the way they do.
Describe your handwriting in 5 words or less.
Hybrid of cursive and manuscript.
Any words of wisdom or tips and tricks for Pulse users?
When I’m attending a webinar, I hook up and wear my 3D recording headset with my Pulse, so I can record the audio from the phone and sync it with my notes. That way I can tune out and multi-task during the webinar. If I hear something interesting, I make an audio bookmark and listen to it again after the webinar - just in case I missed something important.
Some big news today: We are now offering the Pulse smartpen in a new titanium color, available now in a 4GB and 2GB version. With 4GB of memory, you can record over 400 hours of class lectures, meetings, seminars, discussions – all from your Pulse smartpen. It packs plenty of room for applications coming soon for your smartpen. Stay tuned! Check them out here.
The new 4GB black Pro Pack is a complete solution for professionals. For $249.95, you save $35 with this Pro Pack exclusively from Livescribe. It’s bundled with the new black 4GB Pulse smartpen, starter notebook, sleek new Pro Charging Cradle, premium leather case, and MyScript for Livescribe handwriting–to–text transcription software. Right now, it’s available at Livescribe.com
There’s also a new way to charge your Pulse smartpen. The Pro Charging Cradle has a stylish ink–well design and plugs into a wall outlet for fast, efficient charging. Or, you can connect and sync it with the USB cable to your computer.
Looking to buy a Pulse smartpen in the new titanium color? You can find it at several new retail outlets, including Best Buy, select Apple stores, and Apple.com. Starting in late November, the Pulse smartpen will be available at Staples nationwide. Find a store near you!
For pictures and a downloadable demo video of the Pulse smartpen, you can visit our company press release.
We’re excited to introduce a new addition to the Livescribe dot paper family. The convenient “international” A5 size notebook (5.8″ x 8.3″) is a great travel buddy for your Pulse smartpen!
Each A5 notebook has 80 perforated pages and you can get a 4-pack for $17.95. For more details or to buy, check out the Livescribe Store.
Our new A5 notebooks are available as a 4-pack for $17.95.
Livescribe today announced the winners of the “Make Your Mark” contest on Facebook, which encouraged students to share in 140 characters or less how they were going to make a difference at their college.
Livescribe received over 3,000 entries from students at 1,000 different universities across the country and will award a total of $10,000 in scholarships and Pulse smartpens to 18 college students who best demonstrated creativity, originality and inspiration in their written entries.
Hannah Claire Nicole Halcomb of Eastern Kentucky University won $1,500 and a Pulse smartpen as the grand prize winner for her following entry: “I am a 19 year old raising a baby and going to school full time. I want to show others in my situation that it is possible to graduate on time from a university with a child.” In addition, 15 first-prize winners to date have been awarded $500 in scholarship funds, and each received a Pulse smartpen.
Livescribe’s confirmed Make Your Mark scholarship winners are:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
Hannah Claire Nicole Halcomb from Richmond, Ky. (attending Eastern Kentucky University)
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS:
Kathleen Anders, Washington DC (attending Georgetown University)
Sean Clark, Reno, Nev. (attending UN Reno)
Emmanuel Coloma, Berkeley, Calif. (attending UC Berkeley)
Lisa Dewart, Toledo, Ohio (attending MIT)
Marvinlette Dorsey, Vacherie, La. (attending Xavier University of Louisiana)
Alyssa Dotson, Duncanville, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Kathleen Fell, Stillwater, Okla. (attending Oklahoma State University)
K. Tavane Griffith, Gainesville, Fla. (attending Santa Fe College)
Erin Judge, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Reeca Mitchell, Memphis, Tenn. (attending Tennessee State University)
Ashley Pietzsch, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Rachel Pollack, Minneapolis, Minn. (attending UM Twin Cities)
Christa Pluff, Pittsburgh, Pa. (attending Georgetown University)
Waytao Shing, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Heather Stevens, Salado, Texas (attending UT Arlington)
Check out how to build a loft for your college dorm room or any room! This pencast is courtesy of Michael Snively, a Pulse smartpen expert and Livescribe Campus Rep at MIT.
For more great pencasts, check out the Livescribe community. If you have a pencast you’d like us to feature, please e-mail klee @ livescribe.com!
MyScript for Livescribe is a transcription software for Livescribe Desktop that allows users to convert their handwritten notes into digital English (United States) text. For all current MyScript for Livescribe users, you can now download 25 more languages for free!
How does it work? Just download one of the 25 languages (click on the “Get more languages” for Windows or Mac) to get handwriting recognition in the newly-added language.
Download a 30-day free trial of MyScript for Livescribe in addition to any of the new 25 language packs listed below from Vision Objects.
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Danish
Dutch
English (Canada)
English (UK)
English (USA) included by default
Finnish
French (Canada)
French (France)
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish
Turkish
Former Livescribe campus rep and Pulse marketer extraordinaire Adam Burke was featured on Towson University’s website!
Adam’s social media expertise also helped make Livescribe a Twitter hit. “The Twitter audience consists of very tech-savvy professionals with lots of questions about future applications and development, so I market the pen differently,” said Adam. “I increased the follower count from about 100 to more than 1,500.” Livescribe now has almost doubled that number with nearly 3,000 Twitter followers!
Check out Adam’s interview on the Towson University website.
This week, the Wall Street Journal has named Livescribe a runner-up in the Consumer Electronics category in this year’s Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.
The Wall Street Journal received over 500 entries. Livescribe is a runner-up alongside Hewlett Packard and Motorola. Check out today’s Wall Street Journal issue or WSJ.com/Reports to see more.
We’re honored! Thanks, WSJ!
For college students, the first couple of weeks in school can mean a bunch of things: moving in, adding/dropping classes, buying textbooks, catching up with friends,etc.
But at Cornell University, we teamed up with The Cornell Store, the main on-campus bookstore, to give away 200 Pulse smartpens to Cornell students, faculty and staff during the first two weeks of school.
On Thursday, September 3rd - we came, we saw, we gave away all 200 Pulse smartpens to Cornell. The Cornell Store even had a popcorn machine.
Students had a chance to spin our prize wheel to win a smartpen on the spot and by 2:45pm, we ran out of all our Pulse smartpens (save 10 that we kept for the end-of-the-day raffle) but the line of people continued to stretch and wind through the back of the store. I actually overheard a couple engineering students who were calculating their probability to win a Pulse smartpen through the raffle.
Both Sherina, my partner in crime, and I had a great time. I loved how people reacted when they spun on the “FREE PULSE SMARTPEN” slice on the prize wheel; it reminded me of the Price is Right or Wheel of Fortune. I was also happy to hear from one student how she was having a crappy day yesterday, but winning a Pulse smartpen was exactly what she needed to make it all better.
A big thank you goes to: the Cornell students who took time out of their busy schedule to give smartpen demos to students throughout the day, Leeann and Joan at The Cornell Store who made this event possible, and of course, to everyone who showed up to the event.
Check out our pictures of our big giveaway at Cornell on our Facebook photo album.
200 Pulse smartpens. Stacked and ready to go.
The line weaving throughout The Cornell Store for a chance to win a Pulse smartpen.
Two lucky winners and proud Pulse smartpen owners
A little background history: Cornell University made the most marks, largely due to the Class of 2013, in Livescribe’s Make Your Mark contest on Facebook, beating out over 1,000 other colleges across the nation to win the big giveaway event. Over 3,000 marks were made in total!
