One of the most prestigious events of the IT industry, HKICT is now open for application! We are more than happy to share our experience on getting this certificate trophy from the judges. To start with, lets prepare an excellent presentation together to draw the judge’s attention. Here are 5 tips you might know before writing your script.

Think Like Your Users

It is not an easy task to pick a winner from over 100 applicants. Be considerate, please think like a user and show the judge the reason why users like your native app. Remember that the judges are also human beings who use mobile applications everyday!

Be The Hero Among The Applications

Raising the current limitations is one of the possible methods to interact with the panel in the beginning. Recall your intention of developing an app, you will find the answer!

Multimedia Does A Matter

If you were the judge, would you want to listen boring presentations during the day? Graphics, Videos, charts and feedback from app users can make your presentation become more interesting. Try to perform your arts of presentation with multimedia.

Don’t Be Shy To Show Off

What we need is evidence! Rating, ranking, downloads, newsclippings and data of sale revenue are also significant to prove the market performance and competitiveness of your app.

Q&A Session Is Not Just About Question and Answer

We believe that every application has its unique feature and selling point what the judge would like to know. However, it is excusable to miss some of them during the 10-15 minutes presentation. Q&A session will be your good partner to perfect your points.

The tips above are only the first step for you to get well prepared for HKICT. Wishing you all the best during the competition!

Ms Jacqueline Chong is responsible for developing marketing and communications strategies and promoting GreenTomato and TalkBox to their audience around the world. She holds her master’s degree from the University of Warwick in Creative and Media Enterprises. She has worked as a copywriter and played sales and marketing roles in Monster.com and Macmillan Publishers. TalkBox her @JackieC, and follow GreenTomato on Twitter at @gtomato.” Jacqueline Chong Head of Marketing of GreenTomato

Over 120 staff members of GreenTomato, Hotmob and TalkBox gathered to celebrate the past year’s successes and the Lunar New Year ahead. Held in 13 Jan, the evening provides excellent food, crazy games and lucky draw.

The best birthday present to celebrate the first anniversary of TalkBox. TalkBox was honored with the “Innovative Product of The Year of 2011 Award” of “InnoApps 中國互聯網創新產品評選” joint organized by Business Value Magazine, Geek Park and MINI China. We are more than happy to know this news in the beginning of 2012. Lets fighting for a better TalkBox and more interesting features.

Hong Kong ICT Awards 2012 is now open for application! As one of the most prestigious event of the IT industry, a briefing session of the awards was held on 13 Jan and we were glad to share our experience on winning The Best Ubiquitous Networking Award with our very own app Hong Kong Movie in 2009. Hope all the attendants found our tips useful.

TalkBox just moves to the new office this morning. The new office is not far away from the old one but it is a hard work to design and decorate a cool office like this.

The new address is Room A, 17/F, 78 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. If you are going to meet TalkBox Team in the future, welcome to visit our new and comfortable new office!

3 groups of students from Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education’s Department of Information and Communications Technology and Department of Communication Design and Digital Media came to visit us on Dec 7, Dec 8 and 16 Dec. Nice to meet all of the lovely faces. We wish them had fun and know more about mobile industry with our products and projects.