2014 has been a pretty interesting year for skignz so we thought we would like to
have a little look back over our time to remember some of the great moments we
had!
January
January saw skignz
providing seminars to Teesside University students about the technology
available to them personally and on campus. This was a great opportunity for skignz as we got to inform our target
audience just how great the technology is that is available to them. This for skignz went great and we saw our user
database rise within a matter of weeks.
February
In February we started our next stage of development with
Teesside University, which was really good for us as we had a lot of great
plans that we had discussed to implement!
With starting our next stage of development with Teesside
University, we also started to shoot promotion videos for other Universities!
We wanted to make the skignz technology
available to all universities possible which is still undergoing as we speak!
As skignz had an
aim to make the technology available to all universities possible, we though
where better to start than China! One of the world’s largest countries for
population and universities! So we decided to hire a new Intern Katherine Kui, who was from China
originally herself so that she could work on the social media channels for
China and to start generating interest over there!
skignz can also
proudly say that we got nominated this month for the environmental category at
the Best New Business Awards! We came runner up in this however we hope to be
the WINNER of the next awards so keep an eye out and wish us luck!
We also this month started to do preparation for the Motor Expo event which we enjoyed creating some great footage and images.
March
This month skignz
got shortlisted for another great awards at the North East Business Awards. We
got shortlisted for the innovation category and came runner up again also! This
was still great for us but we are still hoping to make it winner again in these
awards next year!
skignz also this
month had our first meeting of many with
Facebook!
March also saw skignz
engage with a great online marketing company Get Me Media! Which allowed skignz
to be noticed by many others and widen our recognition. We got invited to exhibition events and
hopefully more future opportunities to allow skignz to meet more of the best companies around!
April
At the beginning of April, we launched our April fools to
all of our followers. This got a great response for skignz as it fooled a lot of people! We told them that we had
secured a contract with Nasa to which
people were phoning us up and contacting us to congratulate us on the best news
they heard! What a great April fools!
In April skignz
also attended the Silicon Valley Banking networking event down in London. This
allowed us to meet some of the best people and liaise with some great companies
that we wish to plan future work with!
skignz also spent
some time down in London this month again as our CMO was down filming some
production shots for the company at some of the great views around!
May
May was a great but sad time for skignz as it saw our Film and Media Producer Glen College be
offered the chance to go and work in the Falklands for a year for FITV! Now we
of course ensured him that it was a great opportunity and that he had to go for
it and could not turn it down! However we did assure him that he would always have
a place at skignz!
During May, we also began to do work with the great Silicon
Valley Banking account corporate team! We agreed a partnership deal with them
which meant for skignz it was
a big push in the right direction!
skignz also this
month needed a new Film and Media producer to replace Glen who was off on his
new journeys to the great Falkland Islands!
June
After interviewing a lot of people in May to join skignz, we decided on our finalist for
the position! Sarah Spowart was the new member to the skignz team! She was very happy to
become the new Film and Media producer and to help skignz along with the future success.
During June skignz
also delivered the first of many pilots to Motor Expo in Canary Warf. We hoped
this was the start of something good for us … keep watching this space.
The CMO also attended the Good wood Festival of Speed this
month.
Finally a big thing to happen during June was skignz launched ‘make your own image of
skignz’. This was very fun and
interesting and opened up a lot of future possibilities for skignz as it could now be more personal
to anyone working with skignz. The
team also had a lot of fun playing about with creating their own skignz as you
can see from the images.
July
The beginning of July allowed skignz to provide a great opportunity for students! skignz got asked to deliver a tutorial
of skignz to a group of African
students who were visiting for a couple of weeks at Teesside University. Members
of the team got to work with the students, provide presentations to them and
help guide them around Teesside University and Middlesbrough through using skignz on a small orientation activity.
The experience was a great time and the feedback received from the students was
the best we heard. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing and had been
introduced too!
July also allowed skignz
to create new engagements with different school within Teesside University!
During July, skignz
also got tested abroad through one of our team members going away to Spain, she
used it to help her find where she needed to be and find her friends.
This was
a huge success and shows skignz can
be used in any location and just how useful it is!
Towards the end of July skignz
got the chance to go and be tested at the Common Wealth Games in Glasgow! This
was a great opportunity for skignz
as it allowed others to see that it can be used for great causes and events and
that the opportunities it can provide at each event is spectacular.
August
During August, skignz
got the chance to have an initial meeting with a Global Bank about race days,
sponsorships, appointments and marketing to see how skignz can help assist with
any of these. skignz wants to further
the business and make it very global and we hope this is just the beginning!
As you noticed earlier in the year we started to work with
an on-line marketing/advertising company Get Me Media. Well this month skignz got the chance to go with Get Me
Media to the races. Now as fun as this day was out, it meant that skignz got to showcase the technology
to some new businesses and also show people just how good it is and impress
them just a little…!
August was also a great month for skignz as it allowed us to give our live demo of skignz to the Jockey Club. One of skignz big ambition as you know is to
work with all live events around the world, and what better way to do this than
to work on all race days around the world. New technology is advancing all the
time, so skignz believes it would be
a huge benefit to every race day.
September
September saw a really busy month for skignz. It started off with the launch of our Kickstarter campaign
which was a massive important task to skignz this month. We had launched
Kickstarter to help raise funds towards the business so that we could further
what we do and improve it for all our users.
However this didn't go as well as
we thought so we decided to cancel the campaign and re think it to make it much
better with a re-launch next year. We were entirely grateful for all those who
had already supported us!
skignz also this
month we have written eight different patents for skignz
technology ready to go to the next stage of making sure the IP behind skignz remains ours.
skignz was also
down London again this month as we have been looking into working with some leading global brands. We have provided Diageo with demonstration through a Pilot Project where branded skignz are placed above over 100 London pubs this
month to allow the Diageo team and its partners to understand more about skignz, how it works and how its relevant to them, their particular Diageo brand and the possibilities it creates for engaging customers and providing a unique brand experience.
Also during September, BETA had carried out testing on skignz new 3D models. Yes that’s right,
we are in the current process of launching 3D models to which users will be
able to interact with if they choose. From launching out 3D models we are now
looking at doing some great work with something very interesting …
skignz also got
to deliver in the ASI conference in America this year which was really great
for us. We got to inform a whole lot of people and businesses about skignz and what it does and how we can
help them and their businesses.
As part of skignz mission
to work with big brands, this month we went live on Apple, Facebook and Google headquarters campuses! If you would like to see these then you can still, plus
you can also read about it here …
If you are an employee of Apple, Google or
Facebook then do check your headquarters campus now!
October
October was very exciting for skignz as we managed to agree a deal with CHIME PLC. This means a strategic partnership over the 5 years to deliver the skignz technology in to pretty much every major global sporting event. skignz is very excited to get going and we hope it brings a range of new opportunities for both CHIME and
skignz!
skignz also this
month had a lot of interest with Scotland, Ireland and a group of Serbian Universities.
This work is still in the early stages so hopefully when we find out more we
will be sure to let you know through our social media how everything goes.
November
During November skignz found out that we had been short-listed for the Best New Business Awards for the Marketing Category. We are
very pleased to have been nominated again and hope this time that we managed to
win! Cross your fingers for us and wish us luck!
Also this month skignz were confirmed as part of the NE England delegation that is visiting Boston, MA, in the US to meet with a range of tech companies, agencies, VC's and potential tech partners including Microsoft who are hosting part of the event alongside UKTi (UK Trade & Investment), NECC (North East Chamber of Commerce) and BABCNE (British American Business Council New England.
December
The 1st week of December will be all about establishing relationships in Boston MA, between skignz and a select number of companies and organisations. The visit will also include meetings with VC's, British Consulate and attending the BABCNE Annual Christmas Luncheon at The Harvard Club
Following immediately after the Boston trip skignz are very privileged to not only attend Most Contagious this year in London but also exhibit and demonstrate the skignz technology to everyone there.
This quite clearly is still to happen, so when it does
we will update you all straight away on how the event goes and hopefully what
the great outcomes of it will be through our usual social media channels.
If you enjoyed reading what a great year skignz had then wait till you see what next year brings.
If you would like to know more about skignz then please visit our website at http://www.skignz.com and don't forget to check us out on any or all of our Social Media Channels.
We have recently been thinking of global brands and how best to introduce them to skignz. We felt that skignz is best 'experienced' so we began by finding a number of specific places where we could skignz up the environment for the local people to experience it for themselves. 
We are working on a range of further developments for increased functionality and hopefully soon users will be able to pull in their Social Media profiles/updates into a skign above their own head! (Sounds impressive?...) That's just a small taster of what skignz has got planned for launch in the near future.
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