On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:08:34PM -0700, Corey Quinn wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Adam Moskowitz <ad...@menlo.com> wrote: > > > With LISA '13 [1] right around the corner, I got to thinking about how > > "the cool kids" prefer to exchange contact information in a face-to-face > > setting. I'd appreciate it if you'd please take a minute or two to > > answer a few questions. Again, this is specifically about face-to-face > > interactions, typically with someone you're meeting for the first time. > > > > 1) Do you prefer exchanging contact information by trading business > > cards or some electronic-based mechanism? > > Business cards. ... > If I'm giving you my contact info, odds are I'd like you to contact me in the > future-- inserting ANY unnecessary friction into that is antithetical to my > stated goal, which is why I get slightly ranty on this topic!
Hear, hear. And, of course, the business card should still be readable after it gets out of your pocket, shoved in your laptop bag, spindled and mutilated and flattened and taped. Hopefully you have a nice short URL, like menlo.com, and an email address with obvious LHS like adamm (and perhaps a mail server set up to accept common typos, such as "adam"). -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
