Digitization 101: Call me maybe? (Business cards)
To the right are a few of the business cards that I received at the
New York Library Association
Annual Conference. Five of them are from LIS students, while the one
in at the bottom is from a seasoned practitioner. What stands out to me
are two things. (BTW to prevent spamming, I have purposefully obscured
their contact info.)
First, we still value "the card". It remains the easiest and consistent
way of transferring contact information from one person to another.
Yes, I'm all for using QR codes and, in fact, two of these cards have QR
codes on the other side. Yes, I'm all for capturing people's Twitter
names rather than exchanging business cards. However, those two (and
other) methods don't work for everyone. The card is still the thing.
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