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At business events or personal life, we scribe contacts to keep up with new acquaintances. These piece of papers are often misplaced or lost. The more professional is the business card. If you are a man on the go then business cards will also file up. Have you ever thought of a digital business card? Which will be like virtual card and you can share it anytime along with your social networking info. Well, this is not a futuristic thought, it is possible with Poken. Poken is software in a USB drive which allows you to create a digital business card, punch in your social networking info and share it with anyone anytime who has another poken.

The best thing about poken is that you can edit it anytime and it wont cost you anything. Wheres once you have printed you business card, any changes means discarding the old ones.

To set up your Poken account, follow the following steps:

1. plug your poken into your computer’s USB port. it will appear as any drive does!

2. go to the registration page at poken.com/go and we’ll guide you through the rest!

You can register your poken before or even after pokening. Until you register your poken contacts will just see an ‘unregistered’ card. After registering, all the information you choose to share will automatically appear on your card in their account. If you already have an account? no problem – you can link as many pokens to your account as you want.

They offers three types of products Poken Spark, Poken Hub and Poken Pulse. They also have designer based limited edition version. In India you can purchase Poken at: Meraevents.com

Website: http://www.poken.com/

Microsoft brings to you a series of webcasts on SharePoint 2010 from September 22 – 28, 2010. Be a part of this event and get exclusive insights from industry veterans on leveraging this Microsoft technology. Get ready to add that expert touch to your development projects!

22nd Sept., 2010
(2:30 pm – 3:45 pm)
What’s new in SharePoint 2010
By Harish Ranganathan

Learn what’s new in the next version of Microsoft’s collaboration platform. Huge additions and enhancements have been made to SharePoint, which includes rich UI, ribbon support, OBA tooling, Silverlight support, SharePoint workspaces, cross browser support, asset libraries , tagging, social community, and many more. This session will give a whirlwind tour of some of the key capabilities on SharePoint 2010 and some cool out-of-the-box demos.

Click here on the day of the event to join the session!

23rd Sept., 2010
(2:30 pm – 3:45 pm)
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Designer
By Saranya Sriram

SharePoint Designer 2010 – a free application, is “the Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session, you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool: from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources.

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24th Sept., 2010
(2:30 pm-3:45 pm)
SharePoint 2010 and custom workflows
By Joy Ratnayake

SharePoint Server 2010 includes new workflow features that can run without a SharePoint list item. SharePoint Designer 2010 has a new designer for building workflows and these workflows can be exported directly to Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 also has workflow tools improvements with a new workflow form designer, feature designer and packaging designer. This session describes the new workflow features and demonstrates these tools.

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27th Sept., 2010
(2:30 pm – 3:45 pm)
BI enhancements in SharePoint 2010
By Jojo Koshy

SharePoint 2010 provides a flexible platform to expose business intelligence (BI) functionalities for end users by using platform capabilities, all through a familiar user interface. In this session, we cover capabilities that are available for exposing information to end users, including Charting capabilities, Access Services, Visio Services, Excel Services, PowerPivot and Performance Point Services. We will also discuss development options and possibilities to further extend the available capabilities.

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28th Sept., 2010
(2:30 pm – 3:45 pm)
SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight
By Saranya Sriram

Learn how SharePoint offers various ways to build rich and personalized interactions using its user interface framework and how rich experiences can be created by extending SharePoint using technologies like Microsoft Silverlight for the presentation layer. Let’s explore the process by which an interactive user interface is created on SharePoint , starting with the initial design specification through developing the site.

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Right from ‘key capabilities’ to ‘Top 10 great things to know’ to ‘supporting custom workflow’, these sessions have been specially tailored to cover the cool new features of SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer and SharePoint Development tools. We hope that this series adds value to your projects and helps you scale new heights in your career. Do join us to get in-depth insights.

To register for the webcast series, click here.