In the message dated: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:22:45 -0400,
The pithy ruminations from Dan Ritter on
<Re: [lopsa-discuss] Face-to-face exchange of contact information?> were:
=> 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:
=> >
[SNIP!]
=> > >
=> > > 1) Do you prefer exchanging contact information by trading business
=> > > cards or some electronic-based mechanism?
Both.
Personally, I prefer exchanging cards face-to-face. The reality for me
is that weeks-to-months later, I probably won't be able to find that
business card... There's a much greater chance of my following up on the
contact if the information on the card makes it's way into one of my
electronic systems.
Applying this logic to the cards I give to others, my personal card
has human-readable information on the front, and a QR code (with the
same data) on the back, in the hope that the QR code will be intruiging
enough to inspire the recipient to scan the code even if they don't keep
the card. Clearly, from this discussion, there's still some novelty to
the QR code.
=> >
=> > 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
Agreed.
=> > 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,
That's why my (personal) cards are printed[1] on plastic, not paper. They
are sturdy, slim, and visually distinctive. The downside is that you
need a permanent marker to write on them.
Mark
[1] http://www.morningprint.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-
--
Mark Bergman
_______________________________________________
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/
