Using Sound Stickers – A Business Example

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Earlier this month we introduced Sound Stickers for our Australian and New Zealand customers. I posted recently an example of the Sound Stickers being used in an education environment for a very young learner.

Sound Stickers Aren’t Just for Schools

When you look at the capability of the Sound Sticker you’ll realise there are a multitude of business uses where they can help learning and communication.

Livescribe Sound Stickers

Let me share a couple of examples that I’ve been thinking about.

Most organisations realise that their employees learn in different ways – and not every one is a highly proficient reader. Sound Stickers give us the opportunity to add an oral layer to written content – so the employee could read content and/or tap the Sound Sticker and have the words read to them.

 Where Would This Help?

Straight away I thought it would help with those workers who have a low education base (i.e. didn’t finish high school or go to uni). If their reading skills aren’t that proficient or they struggle to comprehend technical concepts – having the page talk to them increases the chance they’ll learn or understand the content goals.

Think also about workers from a non-english speaking background? There is nothing stopping you have a sound sticker on the page in English, or even multiple stickers to deliver content in different languages.

Showcasing Sound Stickers in an Induction Manual

If you’re coming to CeBIT this week I’ll have an example on hand to show visitors – we’ve taken a basic site induction manual and added Sound Stickers to the manual so as to create an oral layer over the printed content. This includes using Sound Stickers to verbalise the printed content as well as ask questions of the user so as to help them complete the induction process effectively.

How Could You Use Sound Stickers in your Workplace?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you could use Sound Stickers in your workplace. In fact, post a comment here, or share your thoughts on our Smartpen Facebook page and we’ll give a contributor a 2GB Echo smartpen and a pack of sound stickers – post before 30 June 2013 (for Australian and New Zealand residents only) to qualify – either here on this post in comments or on our Facebook page.

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Using Livescribe Sound Stickers – An Education Example

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Earlier this month we introduced the Livescribe Sound Stickers to the product range. We’ve had them here for a few months testing them with a number of schools around the region – we’ll be sharing some of these success stories in the coming months.

If you work in education and you’re wondering how you might use Sound Stickers, this YouTube video from the Livescribe team will give you some ideas

Here are a few reasons why you need to start using Sound Stickers in either the classroom, your corporate learning environment, or even in your consultancy (we see real potential with speech pathologists for example).

  1. Sound Stickers allow static, written content to become interactive – whether its a book, poster, or training manual, the stickers bring a new dimension to reading and learning
  2. If you’re working with students from a non-english speaking background Sound Stickers allow you to incorporate natural language verbal instructions into books, posters, and manuals
  3. It reinforces the importance of using pens/pencils – helping young students develop specific motor skills
  4. Reading should always be fun – Sound Stickers add a new fun dimension

How could you use Sound Stickers? I’d love to hear your feedback

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How Much Storage Do I Get on Evernote

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

A common question that prospective customers ask is around how much storage they get with Evernote when they use the WiFi smartpen so its worth addressing this question in detail.

Evernote has two basic versions:

  • Evernote Basic – where you can upload up to 60MB of uploads per month – uploads are measured based on the type of content you upload.
  • Evernote Premium – this paid account (around AUD 50) provides up to 1GB of uploads per month

Now, when you use your Livescribe WiFi smartpen, you enable what we refer to as the “Livescribe Edition of Evernote” This special edition of Evernote allows you to upload up to 500MB of Livescribe content per month to your Evernote account. Now, note here I refer to Livescribe content – so that’s hand-written notes and audio that you create with your Livescribe WiFi smartpen.

How Many Hours of Audio is 500MB?

Great question – it will be roughly 70 hours of audio.

What about the 8GB WiFi Smartpen

The 8GB WiFi smartpen includes a 12 month subscription to Evernote Premium – so this gives you 12 months of the max plan. The other nice feature about Evernote Premium is that it gives you access to Evernote Offline – a way of sync’ing all your notebooks to an offline client.

As a road warrior, traveling every week, I’ve come to love Evernote Offline – I can access all my notes, add notes, mash up data when I’m on a plane and then have this sync’d to my online account once I’ve got a wifi or 4G connection.

Have you Seen our Echo 2GB Special?

Just in case you missed the news – for our Australian and New Zealand customers, we’re offering the Echo 2GB smartpen for AUD 99 (NZD 115) whilst stocks last. Details on this exclusive offer are here

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Livescribe WiFi Smartpen Firmware Update

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Recently Livescribe released a software update for the WiFi smartpen. This latest version is 3.3.0 – we recommend all WiFi smartpen users upgrade as soon as possible. In addition to a number of fixes and some performance improvements, the key new feature in this update is the introduction of Archiving.

Archive Notebooks

This new feature allows you to archive notebooks once you’re finished with them. This function is accessed from the pen and will remove that notebooks content from your smartpen – this frees up capacity on the pen.

How Do I Archive a Notebook from my WiFi Smartpen?

Archiving notebooks from your Livescribe WiFi smartpen is easy to do – simply follow these steps.

Important - You need to have the notebook that you are archiving.

  1. With your pen switched on tap once on the paper menu panel in the bottom left corner of any page in your notebook
  2. Tap the down arrow till you get to settings
  3. Tap the right arrow once to enter this menu option
  4. Tap the down arrow till you get to Archive Notebook (15 taps)
  5. Tap the right arrow once – then tap any page in the notebook.
  6. To confirm and start archiving you finally tap the right arrow to confirm the archive function.

When the archive is completed the LED screen will display a confirmation notice – the notebook is now archived – so don’t tap any other pages in this notebook!

If you have any problems with this, please let us know either in comments, via our social channels or via email.

 

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Livescribe Exhibiting at CeBIT Australia 2013

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

I’m pleased to advise that Livescribe will be exhibiting at the regions largest technology conference and exhibition – CeBIT later this month (28-30 May).

You can find Livescribe at stand T-30 in Hall 4 in the Cloud computing section.

Use this code to register for free for the exhibition – smarwwd12

Livescribe and Evernote at CeBIT 2013 Over the three days we’ll be showcasing the WiFi solution, providing best practice tips and tricks, and sharing how customers use the solution in business and education. We’ll also be showcasing Evernote – both Livescribe for Evernote and Evernote Premium.

It’s Tax Time – Stop By Our Booth and Save Money!

We’ve organised a number of exclusive offers during the event – you’ll need to stop by to qualify! For example – anyone who stops by and scans their delegate pass will receive a free trial of Evernote Premium with any Livescribe smartpen purchase.

Finally, as we’ve blogged here – we’ll also be showcasing Livescribe Sound Stickers and why these are the must have accessory for anyone using the Livescribe smartpen in a corporate learning environment

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What Livescribe Notebooks Can I Use?

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

We’ve had a number of customers asking us via email and our social channels about what Livescribe dot paper products are compatible with the new WiFi smartpen.

We do address this question on our product pages but it’s worth noting here as well.

All current Livescribe paper products will work with your new WiFi smartpen – this means if you are upgrading from a Pulse or Echo smartpen, you can simple continue to use your existing notebooks.

I’ve tested this myself – and even gone as far back as a notebook I first used over 5 years ago and the content is successfully in Evernote.

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Some Good Questions From Our Facebook Community

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

One of our Facebook community has set a new record for the longest post on our page with 8 lengthy questions that are all really relevant and worth repeating here via our blog.

Peita’s Preamble

The Facebook user posed some initial questions in her preamble that are worth addressing:

  • I am a prolific note taker – then you’ll find this to be an invaluable tool
  • I am going to a week long conference in the States next month which prompted me to think there is probably a better way to collate the learnings from such an event? – Interestingly, 5 years ago when I started Smartpen, I headed off to the US for a two week trip with my very first Pulse smartpen – one of the conferences I attended included an unannounced speaking session from one of the founding fathers of sales methodology – Neil Rackham – and I was able to record his 45min Q&A session with my pen – a session I still refer back to today

 The Questions Start…

(1) A5 v A4 – I would normally use an A4 notepad, however would start a new heading on the same page for a new meeting for example. I imagine that for the notes to be useful you would start a new one for each meeting? Therefore A5 might make more sense as otherwise you would burn through the paper too fast.

I’ve always been an A4 notepad user but have changed to the A5 notebooks as I find the pen, portfolio, plus A5 pad is compact and light – particularly if I’m moving around all day or going from meeting to meeting – at conferences, I find the portfolio and A5 notebooks perfect.

(2) Evernote – when the file goes into Evernote is there a way to tag it as part of that process, or do you do that once its in Evernote?

Yes. Once it’s in Evernote you can add tags

(3) To Dos – if there are action items that come out of a meeting, have people come up with clever ways to annotate them so that you can collate them easily into a to do list?

Hmm, something we discuss with Livescribe all the time – not sure what is planned but I’d say – watch this space…

(4) Folio – I currently have a folio for my notebook, so imagine that the folio that also holds the pen makes sense. Are they popular?

Hugely popular. As I noted above, I use mine every day and our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most popular products are the mobility bundles (2GB and 4GB) and the 8GB WiFi ProPack (which includes the folio)

(5) Calculator – the notes make mention of a calculator in the books. I am not sure I understand how that works live as you press them? Where does the answer show?

The answer shows on the LED screen – it’s so simple to use. Keep in mind you can also use the nav plus icon to launch a live calculator whereby what you write on the page becomes a calculation on the screen – this is really useful if you need to do calculations in the middle of a meeting and not let anyone else know what you’re doing

(6) Conferences – If I am attending a large conference, do I need to consider the 3D recording headset? I don’t fully understate the added benefit of that. –

Yes – I know I’ biased but it will help with audio capture

(7) Size – what sort of volume do you need to be doing to warrant the 2 v 4 v 8?

Tough question…the 8GB WiFi pro pack is good value, but then again, I think the 2GB or 4GB Mobility packs are better value.

(8) Notes to editable text or pdf – Is there an ability to get the notes in a typed form? Or is that not possible yet?

Watch this space…Can’t say much more or I’ll get in trouble…

Follow Up Questions…

If you’ve read this and have any follow up questions – feel free to drop a comment below – or join the conversation on Facebook…

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