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The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Poken: Simple Set Up and Use Instructions – by Martin Brossman
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A Poken Spark
Preparing Your Poken For Use
Some Poken come set up and ready to go. With others, you need to remove a small paper tab before you can use them. If you have a Poken with a character’s face and a big white hand then you have a Poken Spark. If your Poken is long and thin and looks like a cool-looking USB memory stick, which is called the Poken Pulse, which costs more and has 2Gig of memory.
- If you have a Poken Spark, hold the head and carefully pull the hand away from the head. You may want to use your thumb resting on the top two fingers, pointing toward the head, and push your thumb between the hand and the head as you are pulling. Once separated, you are looking at the USB connector. If it was not pre-set up, there will be a little white tab for you to pull straight out from under the circuit board with little gold-looking lines. Next, look for the string and plastic connector and fish that through the small loop with a hole in the hand piece. After fishing this through, push the plastic connector though the loop that just passed through the little white hole and let it loop tightly around the connector. Put the head back on the hand and you are ready to connect to other Poken owners! In fact, you can connect to 64 people before you need to sync the Poken with your computer.
- If you have a Poken Pulse, look for the tab on the side of the white or colored base with the USB connector and pull it straight out. It may take some real strength to get it out. Next look for the string and plastic connector and fish that through the small loop on the shell. After fishing this through then push the plastic connector though the loop that just passed through the little white hole and let it loop tightly around the connector. Slide the shell back over the USB plug and you are ready to connect with other Poken owners! You can connect to an almost unlimited number of connections with this one before syncing, but you won’t want to because then you will not have those contacts in your dashboard to use.
Connecting With Other Poken Owners
You can use your Poken right out of the box , even before entering your information online. To connect with another person’s Poken—aka giviing a “high 4”—you touch the hands (of Poken Spark) or the hand emblems (on your Poken Pulse) together. Note that you come in slow and steady, because if you move too fast you get a blinking red light that tells you no connection was made, and you need to wait until it clears and try again. (Just like real life networking…if you move too fast, red lights come on!) When you come in correctly, you will see both Poken glowing a pale green light indicating that you have both received each other’s social media business card. You can make up to 64 connections before you plug it in to your computer.
Connecting Your Poken to Your Computer
On Poken Spark, separate the head from the hand. On Poken Pulse, separate the sleeve from the base. When you have internet access, plug your Poken into the USB drive. Pay attention and don’t force it.
If a window opens up, open the folder and then select “Start Poken.” If a window doesn’t open up, double-click on the new drive that says “Connect to Poken Website.” Either method will take you to the Poken website or Hub to sign up the first time. In the future you’ll just sign in.
In the process of signing up, if you don’t know what to fill in for an item, hit Skip. You can always come back and add data later. The most important items to include in your profile info are your website and your photo because yow don’t want a blank face with your name showing up on everyone’s Contact List!
Note: if you received the Poken directly or indirectly from me, Martin Brossman, you will see my information showing up on your Timeline and Contact List; you can choose to accept it or not. It is an indicator that I have set up and tested each one that I sell.
Working With the Poken Hub
There are 3 components to note: Your Card—on the left; Timeline—on the right and Contact List—underneath the timeline.
On the Timeline, you can have more than one connection with the same person, accumulating as you connect overtime. Don’t delete this, since all the person’s data will disappear completely. In the Contact List below there is only one listing of their data. When you or a contact changes any of your information, it changes on everyone’s Contact Lists. And there is no further cost or additional charge for the Poken service after the initial purchase of the Poken.
After you have synchronized a Poken Spark, it is empty and you can add up to 64 new connections before you can sync again.
The Battery Life
The estimated life of a Poken battery is 4-6 months, depending on use. It’s a standard button battery you can find at Radio Shack. Install it by using a small screwdriver or knife, separating the shell of the hand on the Spark and opening the drawer on the Pulse.
For additional Poken information and to learn about the Poken Raleigh Project, go to www.pokenraleigh.com. Feel free to contact me with questions: – Martin Brossman – www.ProNetworkingOnLine.com, (919) 847-4757 , Martin@CoachingSupport.com
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