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Nokia Nseries Widget or Why Nokia Really Needs a Good Internal Communication System

Nokia Nseries Widget

Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen

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On one of those amusing trips down Internet Blackhole Lane last week that started at Twitter and ended 5 clicks later at someone's website, led me to finding the Nokia Nseries Maps + Photography Widget.

This is a great widget, much more useful than the Urbanista Diaries widget. The above widget has all the Sports Tracker uploads that I have made public, from my India trip to various bits afterwards to the current Nokia viNe uploads. And more importantly, it is fast and works.

But this hidden widget is interesting.

Super interesting, as I had been bothering the folks over at WOM World since early September about when the Nokia viNe testing/campaign participants would be getting the widget to publicize our adventures in Nokia viNe land, but up to last week there was no widget for the viNe campaign.

When one trots over to the Sports Tracker site, there is not a single thing about a Nokia Nseries web site widget that scrapes one's Sports Tracker account for the data, geo-paths and imagery. One would imagine that more than a few Sports Tracker users would love to know about this widget so that they could display their paths and imagery on their website or Facebook page.

Hello, Nokia. Helllllllooooooo.....

The above Nokia Nseries Maps + Photography Widget that uses my Sports Tracker username & data would be an excellent addition to the downloads on the Sports Tracker site. It would also be lovely to have it available for download over at Nokia viNe site.

One would think that if a large and lovely mobile corporation was going to spend lots of money on developing a widget and/or web services and/or promotional campaigns, such Nokia viNe and Sports Tracker, that one would have the internal teams and external vendors talking to each other to let each other know when a product/widget/campaign has been created that would benefit the other team or each other. If one is going to create a great useful widget, it would be lovely to have it cross-linked to as many places on the Nokia website as possible to get as much traction as possible.

Dear Nokia, if you need a good internal blog / intranet to improve your global marketing campaigns, hire me, I will set it up for you and get your teams talking. Inter-team and intra-team communication equals better promotions and pr, which equals more sales.

by Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen on Wed October 22, 2008 9:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | moleskine to mobile

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1 Comments

On April 9, 2009 10:43 AM, Hubbub said:

Hear hear!! Nokia are really missing a HUGE trick with this. The data's all there, they just need to allow users to make use of it. Posting it onto Facebook would be a big selling point IMO.

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